Centurion Setup vs. Symantec Ghost Solution Suite

Symantec Ghost Solution Suite

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Centurion Setup	Score 9.1 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	Centurion Setup is presented as an easy to use professional installation program installer. The installer is self-contained in a single compressed executable file, and runs on all versions of Windows. The vendor describes Centurion Setup as simple to learn, but also feature rich, with support for uninstallation, multiple languages, interface customization, license agreements, readme files, file associations, DOS batch operations, DLL installation, automated installations, device drivers,…	$130 one-time fee 5 activations
Symantec Ghost Solution Suite	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Symantec's Ghost Solution Suite is an imaging and deployment solution.	N/A

Pricing

Centurion Setup

Symantec Ghost Solution Suite

Editions & Modules

Standard Edition: $130.00
one-time fee 5 activations

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Centurion Setup	Symantec Ghost Solution Suite
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

$130 one-time fee 5 activations

No setup fee

Additional Details

A license entitles the user to 5 activations. Once activated, the software will remain activated indefinitely unless it is moved to a different drive, or if a major upgrade (such as 1.0 to 2.0) is installed. Minor upgrades (such as 1.0 to 1.1) are free. The 5 activations are not restricted to one machine or user.

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Community Pulse
	Centurion Setup	Symantec Ghost Solution Suite
Considered Both Products	Centurion Setup No answer on this topic	Symantec Ghost Solution Suite Dave King Director of IT Chose Symantec Ghost Solution Suite Based on our particular company needs, we selected Ghost primarily for the cost. There are better products out there to deploy new computers. KACE was one of the products tested. I used KACE at a previous company and I can say KACE is a more effective deployment method, but the … Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Breyen Client Assistant Chose Symantec Ghost Solution Suite None Incentivized Helpful? Brian Wheatley System Engineer Chose Symantec Ghost Solution Suite Once the research had been done, it seemed that Symantec Ghost Solution Suite was the best suited for our environment. The initial cost was fair and the return on investment was well worth what we had to pay up front. I would recommend Ghost Solution Suite to any larger company. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Ghost Solution Suite The Symantec Ghost Solutions Suite learning curve isn't that steep. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Centurion Setup	Symantec Ghost Solution Suite
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	7.7 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Centurion Setup	Symantec Ghost Solution Suite
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	It helps to manage the mass of computers we use. We use GSS to see where and who deployed software to what computers. This can particularly be helpful when dealing with license usage, and tracking how many licenses we have left, and where those licenses have been used. We are able to use it to manage clients. Incentivized Andrew Breyen Client Assistant Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Ghost Cast [Server} gets the job done. Easy to use. Nice UI. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	Even though Ghost Solution Suite saves configurations, software settings and installation within the image, there is still some manual configuration that needs to be done once the image is complete. Installing Drivers for specific models of computers. With Ghost Solution Suite, it can be difficult to get the drivers for all the hardware of all the different model computers, so you have to create different images for different model computers. It would be nice to have the ability to have a hardware independent image for all model computers Image Size. Ghost does have compression to reduce the size of the image, but when you have to store all the drivers within the image it increases the total size of the image you need to manage. Incentivized Dave King Director of IT Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	Based on our particular company needs, we selected Ghost primarily for the cost. There are better products out there to deploy new computers. KACE was one of the products tested. I used KACE at a previous company and I can say KACE is a more effective deployment method, but the cost prevented us form going with this product. Also, since we have one single standard image it was very easy to manage Ghost for all our employee computers. We also standardized to one single hardware model computer which also made the decision to use Ghost easier. Incentivized Dave King Director of IT Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Initial setup took a long time to nail down. Once support figured out the issues, it was smooth. After implementation, capturing and deploying images were smooth. Being able to quickly deploy software, or move users to new AD groups, or manage power of the machines quickly made us enjoy the software even more. Incentivized Brian Wheatley System Engineer Read full review
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