Use Intune For DirectAccess Instead of IBCM?

All of our Windows 7 systems are Professional since we do not have Software Assurance and there are no plans to ever get Software Assurance.
We do have Server 2008 R2 servers and will soon get some licenses for Server 2012 or 2012 R2.
We have about 100 user laptops that users work remotely with, sometimes using VPN.  Some don't connect to VPN frequently, so they get behind in WSUS-provided Windows Updates and it is very difficult to update other software such as Java and Adobe products
remotely even with VPN running.
We are rolling out SCCM and will need IBCM via either a second server in a DMZ or reverse proxy to better mange updating without VPN and wondered if Intune would be an alternative to IBCM .  
With Intune we could upgrade only the laptops to Windows 7 Enterprise without needing SA for the entire company (can SA be enabled just for a subset of computers?) and then we could deploy DirectAccess which should be a nicer experience for users and easier
for remote administration.
For just 100 laptops, the cost might be high at $11 per month per device.  That would be $1100 per month or $13,200 per year ongoing recurring expense.  It would be a one time expense of less than that to purchase and set up a reverse proxy or
second System Center server in a DMZ to manage these clients.
Is Intune a good option in this case?

I have since found out that Windows Enterprise purchasing has been separated from Software Assurance.
Windows 8.1 Enterprise (with downgrade rights to Windows 7) can be purchased without SA this year.
So, for companies with SA, Windows 8.1 Enterprise licensing is going to cost them much more now than it did last year.  However, now businesses can purchase Windows 8.1 Enterprise licensing as a standalone purchase without being forced into also signing
up for SA.
Still not sure the effort to get DA working for only 100 or so laptops will be worth the time, hardware, licensing and labor costs required to get it working from scratch when the company has already paid for Cisco VPN and RSA licensing.  
The problem with the VPN solution is that it is being underutilized by users since some of them can get a lot of their remote work done without connecting to VPN (Outlook Anywhere, OWA, SharePoint etc.) or else they have company-issued laptops that are rarely
used for work purposes (using company laptop for personal use at home to web surf, porn, do their income taxes, play music, store and edit their personal baby and cat photos etc), thus the user sees no need to connect to VPN.
Only the users who regularly need to access Remote Desktop, Intranet sites and/or internal file shares connect to the VPN frequently enough for WSUS or SCCM over VPN to keep the system up to date.

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