System Center 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

System Center

4.4

(92)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About System Center

System Center is an on-premise and cloud-based IT management solution that helps businesses of all sizes monitor and diagnose issues across systems and applications. The solution allows managers to enhance the efficiency of infrastructure resources by the monitoring health and performance of system memory, CPU and network.

The software lets professionals monitor the health of storage centers, localize faults and notify the concerned departments. It enables teams to utilize service request form templates and automatically route IT requests to relevant personnel for approval. Additionally, administrators can utilize System Center’s orchestrator tool to create and test runbooks using an integrated scripting environment (ISE) plugin.

System Center offers an application programming interface (API), which lets businesses modify the system and integrate it with third-party applications including Microsoft Azure Security and Active Directory. Pricing is available on a one-time basis and support is extended via FAQs, documentation and other online measures.

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System Center Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1,323.00

Free Trial

Free Version

Datacenter Edition

$3,607.00

Plan includes:

Configuration Manager
Data Protection Manager
Operations Manager
Orchestrator
Service Manager
Unlimited Operating System Environments / Hyper-V Containers
Unlimited Windows Server Containers
Virtual Machine Manager

Standard Edition

$1,323.00

Plan includes:

2 Operating System Environments / Hyper-V Containers
Configuration Manager
Data Protection Manager
Operations Manager
Orchestrator
Service Manager
Unlimited Windows Server Containers
Virtual Machine Manager

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System Center Features

Popular features found in IT Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Capacity Management
Compliance Management
Incident Management
Issue Auditing
License Management
Maintenance Scheduling
Remote Access/Control
Server Monitoring
Ticket Management
More features of System Center
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Change Management
Configuration Management
Data Storage Management
Data Visualization
Inventory Management
Multi-User Collaboration
Network Mapping
Performance Metrics
Real-Time Monitoring
Self Service Portal
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
Third-Party Integrations
Uptime Reporting

System Center Integrations

Microsoft Azure

System Center User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

53%

33%

12%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.6

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.5

Joe B.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Service Manager for the Win!

Use it everyday, really makes desktop and server management easy!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

System Center Service Manager + Configuration Manager + Orchestrator enables full end user self service and automation, whist building a rich CMDB.

Cons:

Can be a little tricky to configure System Center Service Manager, and the built in Microsoft Portal is not very user friendly, however can be made better with Third Party products.

Mücahit Ç.

Verified reviewer

Banking

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Multi-server single screen

Overall very practical to follow a lot of errors on the server.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

We manage a lot of servers available. very easy to watch each by System Center without requiring a server rdp.

Cons:

bugs that are fixed on the server sometimes fades late System Center panel.Panels very simple, can be more visual.

Stephen C.

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2018

Asset management, CRM, incident management, deployment all in one. But, man, if it isn't annoying.

I have never used a better CRM tool, but that isn't saying much. Asset management is good. Application/OS deployment is good but difficult.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Asset management, CRM, incident management, application deployment and those are just the features we use. Excellent, detailed reporting of incidents, users, assets, etc. Integration with everything Microsoft. The desktop apps are actually pretty decent, if you have used other Microsoft apps and are already used to how they are laid out. It really is better than some CRM tools and asset management tools.

Cons:

Slow. Maybe it is just us and our on-prem setup (another con, these days) but boy is it slow. We were even told by Microsoft that it just is slow. That's it. Other MDM, asset management, CRM tools come with manufacturer setup teams to help you get started, we just threw ours together from scratch and a few classes. Everything is a learning experience and almost nothing is intuitive. Writing C# and XML are a must. SCCM/SCSM is not user friendly and takes 1, 2, or 3 full-time employees to run, let alone get setup.

Brad T.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2020

Must Have for Enterprise Workstation and Server Management

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is really easy to deploy software and updates to your endpoints.

Cons:

I wish you could query the database from SSMS or Power Bi or any other analytical tool. You can only easily use the built queries.

Hamza E.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Control all your Microsoft servers from one console

Easy to track ad users, easy to set up server.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Set up and control all the servers from one software.

Cons:

Grouping my Microsoft server in one environment.

Denis V.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

System Center your private cloud.

This system spans most area of technologies required for your business. It is not very easy to set all system up, but when everything is done, you can enjoy management your whole infrastructure.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

With multiple components of this system you can build your own private cloud, in which you can manage your own virtual machines, which can be based on different technologies Hyper-V or VMware,do backups to protect your data, monitor your infrastructure and automate routine tasks. And all those things can be tightly integrated with public Microsoft cloud Azure in hybrid scenario or for realization different separate purposes as backuping, site recovery, automation and LogAnalitics in the cloud.

Cons:

No so easy to setup and manage, required experience and knowledge from administrator in multiple IT arias.

Nicolai S.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Happy about SCOM and SCCM of system center

I have used System Center for as well as monitoring as deploying software to clients for the company I currently work for. In the future I will also use this to deploy operating systems and provide updates using system center.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Gives the the very useful possibility to monitor systems, to deploy laptops with an operating systems and their applications. Also nice to provide updates to the clients.

Cons:

It's a pretty high cost and it's not the most straightforward. It's quite complex and requires a specific point of technical expertise.

David Junior C.

Verified reviewer

Banking

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

A great solution in all in one

With System Center Operations Manager we resolve the lacks of deep monitoring, like if any services on Windows Server goes down, if a deamon on Linux/Solaris server goes down. With System Center Operations Manager we can monitoring Services, SNMP, WMI, Ping, etc.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It allows you get all information, all monitoring features on any devices where the agent is installed. It allows you develope an software update or a windows update.

Cons:

To use the all features on a end devices, you must install the agent of System Center. Without the agent the features are limited.

Reasons for choosing System Center

We choose both. Solarwinds Orion for SNMP and Ping monitoring and SCOM for deep monitoring.

Marc L.

Verified reviewer

51-200 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Another Microsoft back office product

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

There is a lot this can do, we used it primarily for Configuration manager and endpoint protection. It's a good product.

Cons:

Like many of Microsoft products, high learning curve and complex setup for even seemingly easy tasks.

Glen K.

Verified reviewer

Railroad Manufacture

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Our organization uses this for allowing quick access to needed software

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This allows for easy setup of new computers. We have a fairly high turnover rate so we are constantly setting up new users.

Cons:

It doesn't seem to be integrated into our approval process. If I need software that requires "approval" it seems to be clunky. I click the "requires approval" and days go by before it's approved.

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