We performed a comparison between BigFix and HashiCorp Terraform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One of the best features is Windows Autopilot because if you change any of your devices, whatever security policies and compliance policies that applied can be easily migrated to the new devices. Windows Autopilot gives you that flexibility."
"It is a helpful tool to manage BYOD policies."
"The most valuable includes managing everything from a single console."
"It's easy to manage."
"The overall user experience is quite nice. I have no complaints from end users regarding their devices enrolled in Intune."
"The ability to block and erase remote devices is valuable to us, especially when those devices are lost."
"Internet-based access with security is what I have found to be most valuable. It is also a stable and scalable solution."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"In terms of vulnerability management, it gives tough competition by providing a single management console with multiple benefits."
"The most valuable feature is the patching."
"Vulnerability scanning and patch automation."
"It has improved my organization because we can automate a lot of tasks. We went from manually patching machines or doing our best and having very little visibility into it to us being able to set it and forget it and getting really good results on first-pass patching."
"BigFix helped us to identify the compliance of devices and has also improved the way that we manage our software inventory for reporting to vendors."
"The most valuable feature of BigFix is the software deployment."
"Having higher visibility on patching level, on patching successful, and non-successful has been a way that BigFix has improved my organization. Also, the ability to customize the content to do what we need it to do is very powerful and very flexible for us. Finally, in the area of custom interfaces like REST API really gives us the ability to provide for our external customers."
"Patch Management for a variety of operating systems makes it valuable as we can rely on a single tool for obtaining patch compliance of the entire compute infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the modules it offers."
"We save a lot of time with this solution."
"HashiCorp Terraform is highly stable."
"The most valuable features of Terraform are leveraging public modules for EKS, KMS, and ECR."
"I like the function that shows me a preview of what is happening in the infrastructure."
"It allows for the abstraction of the work away from the developer into automated processes."
"Can be used across multiple cloud providers and multiple platforms."
"It is one of the best things because now we have everything automated with Terraform. We didn't have an outage for the last three years because everything is written in a code, and every change we have made is recorded. If we didn't have a tool like Terraform, it would be extremely complex to achieve this level of maturity with infrastructure."
"It would be better if I could integrate it with my core group policy. I would like to have a group policy in my current environment, which has strict control, but those things are still missing. Although it has maximum compliance and security, it's not available on-premise."
"They should make it easier to order it, however, that's generally true for everything from Microsoft."
"The most important thing is reporting. They should improve their reporting. They should give a free hand to users. In SCCM, I can create my own reports. For example, in SCCM, I can create an inventory report for my PC or for all PCs, but in Intune, we don't have an option to create any report. Microsoft claims that Intune is a successor of SCCM, but SCCM is more powerful than Intune. So, they should develop Intune more and make it equivalent to SCCM. Then, their product will be great in the market."
"I would like to see micro VPN. I like the way that some of the other providers have done something similar where, as you open that app on an end-point device, it creates a micro VPN straight into your device, which is quite a nice little feature. Also, Microsoft Intune relies heavily on its fellow products in the suite. It would be nice if Microsoft Intune could stand on its own two feet."
"Sometimes, customers compare it with AirWatch, but the concept of Intune is different from other solutions. It's an application management app. It gets a bit difficult to explain it to customers, but it's not a product limitation. It takes a presale document or presentation to explain it to customers."
"The product needs to upgrade itself when the server is overloaded."
"When Microsoft Intune is used with different android devices it does not always work as it is supposed to."
"Onboarding of endpoint devices is not straightforward. The onboarding process was a little heavier than I thought it would be. That's the key improvement area. Obviously, the more control you have over the devices, the better it is."
"I'm looking for them to make big web UI improvements."
"IBM has not focused on the Web Reports capabilities."
"I'd like to see better API integration with BigFix. We have some tremendous API capability inside of CyFIR and the ability to take textual search results, for example, and bring that back into the BigFix dashboard. This would be of extreme interest to us and our customers."
"I would like to see more custom content."
"Relay selection and availability needs improvement as an incorrect relay selected can cause network chokes."
"I would like to see the Self Service section made more user-friendly."
"The reporting structure could be a little more simplistic. Currently, it throws too many vulnerabilities. Some of them are not needed because they are only informational and limitations, and they are not of much help. It doesn't need to show us these things."
"The scalability of the web UI product doesn't scale to the size that we need for our implementation so it needs to expand. I would also like to see the capability to develop on the back of the web UI capability. There are lots of web features and integrations that we could do with web UI that it would be nice to be able to put on top of what's already there, rather than waiting for IBM to develop what we need."
"I would like to see a short-term option for a short-term plan."
"Lacks flexibility in common programming languages."
"It would be nice if they could put our infrastructure on graphics or at least provide a map of our infrastructure."
"They have added a feature that helps us to import existing resources to our workspace, but if they can help us to create the code for the import, as well, then it would be a great addition."
"This solution could be improved by adding features such as CDM to accelerate the access of data by the users."
"The user interface could be easier for non-technical people."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution is missing a lot of properties for specific resources."
BigFix is ranked 5th in Configuration Management with 91 reviews while HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 7th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews. BigFix is rated 8.6, while HashiCorp Terraform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HashiCorp Terraform writes "Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments". BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Tanium and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus, whereas HashiCorp Terraform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, SaltStack, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and SUSE Manager. See our BigFix vs. HashiCorp Terraform report.
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