Symantec IT Management Suite vs. Tanium

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Symantec IT Management Suite
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Symantec IT Management Suite enables IT administrators to securely manage the entire lifecycle of desktops, laptops, and servers across Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, and virtual environments including deployment, asset management, and patch management to reduce costs and increase productivity.N/A
Tanium
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Tanium delivers Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM) with the goal of allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk.
$8.99
one-time fee per subscription license
Pricing
Symantec IT Management SuiteTanium
Editions & Modules
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Tanium Patch (v.2)
$8.99
one-time fee per subscription license
Tanium Core Platform
$29.99
one-time fee per subscription license
Tanium Subscription Suite
$33.99
one-time fee per subscription license
Tanium Client Management
$36.99
one-time fee per subscription license
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Symantec IT Management SuiteTanium
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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IT Asset Management
Comparison of IT Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Symantec IT Management Suite
8.6
Ratings
9% above category average
Tanium
-
Ratings
Software and hardware inventory tracking7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
License management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset lifecycle monitoring9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset relationship management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Symantec IT Management SuiteTanium
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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8.0
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Usability
9.0
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-
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Support Rating
8.0
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-
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User Testimonials
Symantec IT Management SuiteTanium
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend Symantec ITSM to any company over 250 endpoints seeking to effectively manage their endpoints with a customizable tool. The ability to manage your workstations end to end using imaging tools, software deployment, inventory, workflow engine, reporting tools and end user support is awesome.
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Tanium is well suited for organizations where enterprise infrastructure has great significance and needs to be properly managed as well as protected. Most organizations depend upon their infrastructure to sustain so Tanium can be a boon for them to sustain in this competitive market. However, Tanium is less appropriate for the traditional offices that don't have or have a less online presence.
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Pros
  • End to end workstation imaging with a 45 minute average for OS, drivers and base software with only 1 technician touch to name the workstation.
  • Application usage reporting on what software is being used and how much - broken down by site, department and user.
  • 5% of managed workstations were patched.
  • IT lifecycle reports were automated with live inventory feeds to enable purchase reports.
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  • Endpoint Security Risk Management.
  • Server Management.
  • System Management.
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Cons
  • Increased memory consumption
  • Older machines can not support the program
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  • Reporting features in Tanium is lacking for deployments, this need to be fixed.
  • Tanium user interface is little outdated, they can improve.
  • Due to high CPU utilization we face issues sometimes.
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Usability
I am bit biased after using Symantec ITSM for 10 plus years. However, I found its ability to wrap everything into one console for at a view enterprise health a powerful tool for my department and others. The ability to provide self healing of software packages to workstations was especially powerful. The ability to customize data connections to other tools and automate those inputs and outputs let us provide the business data to support enterprise decisions on Hardware and software usage.
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Support Rating
With the Blue Coat acquisition the question remains on how much support Symantec is going to give the ITSM suite. Its just not that sexy anymore to have to support a product that touches all the hardware anymore. A few of the really good support reps have gone the way of private which is very concerning.
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Alternatives Considered
We evaluated Norton and Kaspersky, we chose Symantec to provide more options and more guarantees. In addition, we have used the tool for more than 10 years in the company (the time I am working). It has an interface with all monitoring data and statistics. A specific display of each piece of connected equipment in the network, making monitoring easy and, in case of a threat, it notifies us.
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Tanium is always my first choice, so much excellent feedback online from genuine users, easy to use in any system environment, and value for money, so many good things about Tanium stacks up against all the other competitors in the market. Tanium is one of the most reliable and trusted risk and compliance management software.
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Return on Investment
  • Reduction of virus infections
  • Greater clarity in the reports
  • Monitoring the network and infra
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  • Adding the IOC 's tracing infected machines, and removing unwanted applications quickly.
  • Quarantine the infected machine from the network in order to prevent it from causing damage or infecting other machines.
  • The user interface could be improved.
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