Microsoft System Center Features
What are the features of Microsoft System Center?
Security
- Endpoint Protection
- Patch Management
Administration
- Change Management
- Asset Management
- Reports & Analytics
Service Desk
- Help Desk
- Incident Reports
- Process Workflow
Functionality
- Performance Logging
- Alerting
- Automation
Management
- Reporting
- Administration Console
- Asset Management
- Policy Dictation
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Analysis
Threat Detection | Collects and curates data insight about the performance and health of a company's system. 12 reviewers of Microsoft System Center have provided feedback on this feature. | 86% (Based on 12 reviews) | |
Reporting | Creates reports outlining resource, underutilization, cost trends, and/or functional overlap. | Not enough data | |
Dashboards and Visualizations | Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way. | Not enough data | |
Spend Forecasting and Optimization | Ability to project spend based on contracts, usage trends, and predicted growth. | Not enough data |
Platform
Unified Communications Platform | Facilitates communication between users and administrators. | Not enough data | |
Remote Access | Allows end users to remotely access to company's IT database. This feature was mentioned in 13 Microsoft System Center reviews. | 88% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
ITIL Policy Compliance | Helps organizations establish, implement, and adhere to ITIL regulation. | Not enough data | |
Asset Tracking | Based on 13 Microsoft System Center reviews. Tracks IT assets and financial data. | 83% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
IT Knowledge Management | As reported in 10 Microsoft System Center reviews. Integrates all IT service support functions for consistency and accuracy. | 83% (Based on 10 reviews) |
Security
Endpoint Protection | As reported in 14 Microsoft System Center reviews. Allows the IT team to oversee all possible endpoints in a single source of reference. | 86% (Based on 14 reviews) | |
Patch Management | Automates the updating of security measures on enterprise devices. This feature was mentioned in 14 Microsoft System Center reviews. | 90% (Based on 14 reviews) | |
Disaster Recovery | Provides cloud backup or disaster recovery solution to protect enterprise data and applications. | Not enough data | |
Service Management | Utilizes data to proactively identify and prioritize IT issues. | Not enough data | |
Workflow Management | Creates new or streamlines existing workflows to better handle IT support tickets and service. | Not enough data |
Administration
Change Management | Based on 62 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Tools to track and implement required IT changes in a system. | 87% (Based on 62 reviews) | |
Asset Management | Based on 63 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Tools to organize and manage all IT assets within an organization. | 86% (Based on 63 reviews) | |
Reports & Analytics | Based on 65 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. A means to view and analyze a large amount of data in order to gain business insights. | 87% (Based on 65 reviews) | |
Activity Monitoring | Actively monitor status of work stations either on-premise or remote. | Not enough data | |
Multi-Cloud Management | Allows users to track and control cloud spend across cloud services and providers. | Not enough data | |
Automation | Efficiently scales resource usage to optimize spend whith increased or decreased resource usage requirements. | Not enough data |
Service Desk
Help Desk | Based on 58 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. A place for users to submit tickets when they require IT help. | 87% (Based on 58 reviews) | |
Incident Reports | Based on 59 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Reports based on IT incidents so IT members can prioritize high risk issues and maintain a record of problems and how often they occur. | 85% (Based on 59 reviews) | |
Process Workflow | Based on 59 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. The ability to create flowcharts and other means to outline specific processes to ensure that all requirements are met. | 83% (Based on 59 reviews) |
Functionality
Ticketing System | Based on 13 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides a service desk for users to submit tickets for IT-related issues. | 86% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
Performance Logging | As reported in 14 Microsoft System Center reviews. Tracks action-by-action asset performance with machine- or human-readable logs. | 85% (Based on 14 reviews) | |
Alerting | Based on 16 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Creates alerts when tracked assets encounter errors or performance issues. | 90% (Based on 16 reviews) | |
Automation | Based on 15 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Automates repetitive tasks associated with IT service operations and maintenance. | 88% (Based on 15 reviews) | |
Performance Monitoring | Continuously monitors network performance across the entire span of a network. | Not enough data | |
Alerting | Sends alerts via pop-up notifications, texts, emails, or calls regarding network issues or failures. | Not enough data | |
Improvement Suggestions | Suggests potential remedies or improvements to slowdowns, errors, or failures. | Not enough data | |
Multi-Network Capability | Provides monitoring capabilities for multiple networks at once. | Not enough data | |
Synthetic Monitoring | Monitors and test apps to address issues before they affect end users. | Not enough data | |
Dynamic Transaction Mapping | Provides dynamic end-to-end maps of every single transaction. | Not enough data | |
Load Balancing | Automatically adjusts resources base on application usage. | Not enough data | |
Cloud Observability | Monitors cloud microservices, containers, kubernetes, and other cloud native software. | Not enough data |
Management
Reporting | Based on 16 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides graphics, dashboards, and general reporting around IT service, assets, and incidents. | 89% (Based on 16 reviews) | |
Administration Console | Based on 16 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides administrative tools for routine maintenance, upkeep, and tracking. | 85% (Based on 16 reviews) | |
Access Management | Based on 13 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Gives administrators control over user privileges and accessibility for IT assets. | 86% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
Asset Management | Based on 13 Microsoft System Center reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Gives administrators control over hardware and software resource allocation and tracking. | 87% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
Policy Dictation | Controls policies and configurations across business applications and hardware. 13 reviewers of Microsoft System Center have provided feedback on this feature. | 83% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
Performance Baseline | Sets a standard performance baseline by which to compare live network activity. | Not enough data | |
Data Visualization | Charts or graphs live and historical network performance for quick status checking and analysis. | Not enough data | |
Path Analysis | Gives insights into which specific network paths are performing suboptimally. | Not enough data |
Monitoring
Usage Monitoring | Tracks infrastructure resource needs and alerts administrators or automatically scales usage to minimize waste. | Not enough data | |
Database Monitoring | Monitors performance and statistics related to memory, caches and connections. | Not enough data | |
API Monitoring | Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering. | Not enough data | |
Real-Time Monitoring - Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring | Constantly monitors system to detect anomalies in real time. | Not enough data | |
Server Performance | Monitors CPU usage, disk activity and memory usage | Not enough data | |
Energy Consumption | Tracks and monitor building meters, UPSs , floor and rack PDU’s and environment sensor to notify unusual events | Not enough data | |
Space Planning | Tracks and manage rack, equipment, tray space to better utilize the capacity | Not enough data | |
Performance Baselines | Not enough data | ||
Performance Analysis | Not enough data | ||
Performance Monitoring | Not enough data | ||
AI/ML Assistance | Not enough data | ||
Multi-System Monitoring | Not enough data |
Visibility
Dashboards and Visualizations | Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way. | Not enough data | |
Alerts and Notifications | Clearly notifies team members with relevant information and anomalies in a timely manner. | Not enough data | |
Reporting | Creates reports outlining load distribution, performance and other relevant metrics. | Not enough data |
Monitoring and Management
Multi-Server Management | Allows users to track and control resource spend and loads across multiple servers. | Not enough data | |
Automation | Automatically allocates resources to optimize loads across servers. | Not enough data | |
Performance Baseline | Sets a standard performance baseline by which to compare live server activity. | Not enough data | |
Real-Time Monitoring | Constantly monitors server to detect anomalies in real time. | Not enough data | |
Immediate Alert Notification | Ability of the monitoring software to immediately alert the user in case of any issue. | Not enough data | |
Proactive Server Monitoring Software | Deploys remedial actions proactively. If this measure fails, then the user is alerted. | Not enough data |
Performance Management
Workflow Automation | Automates all the key operations of a datacenter infrastructure. | Not enough data | |
Change Management | Captures changes in hardware configurations, software installation, or virtual machines. | Not enough data | |
Real Time Reporting | Tracks power, cooling, CPU usage, servers etc in real time and trigger alarms | Not enough data |
Response
Dashboards and Visualization | Not enough data | ||
Incident Alerting | Not enough data | ||
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) | Not enough data |
Performance
Real User Monitoring (RUM) | Captures and analyzes each transaction by users of a website or application in real time. | Not enough data | |
Second by Second Metrics | Provides high-frequency metrics data. | Not enough data |
Cloud environment support
Server Monitoring For Cloud Deployments | Supports public, hybrid and private cloud environments. | Not enough data | |
Software Scaling | Software can scale as the enterprises adds more servers to their portfolio virtually. | Not enough data |
