We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Server Automation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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."I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."
"The mobile application management, MAM, is the most useful aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable features are the ones that make sure that the deployment is of a standard operating system and the Zero Touch deployment, which is very useful. This allows users to have an out of box experience."
"Its protection policies are most valuable. It protects mobile devices as well as individual apps. It is pretty scalable, and its documentation is also pretty good. It is also pretty straightforward to deploy."
"It is a very helpful solution."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune is having all our devices compliant with our policies."
"Mobile device management is most valuable."
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"The solution is stable."
"The most important feature is the schedulings."
"The product's valuable feature is its ability to conduct patching for multiple servers simultaneously."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to remediate quickly and efficiently across a number of IT assets at the same time. It takes away manual efforts from the team to go out and fix those vulnerabilities through patching, conflict updates, etc."
"Among the most valuable features is its flexibility and ability to work across multiple operating systems. Being able to execute some form of data collection and not have to worry about whether I'm working on a Linux box, or a Windows box, or the underlying OS, I can do these collections, get these results, and put them together in a uniform format which makes it easier to present back to management."
"BMC support is great. They usually can answer any of our questions in a short amount of time and solve our most complex issues."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"The best feature of the solution is patch automation."
"Role-based access control and agentless architecture are the main features which may attract users."
"It is all modular-based. If there is not a module for it today, someone will write it."
"It enabled me to take the old build manifest and automated everything. So when it came time to spin everything up, it was quick and simple. I could spin it up and test it out. And then, when it came time to roll production, it was a done deal. When we expanded to multiple data centers, it was same thing: Change a few IP addresses, change some names, and off we went."
"It does not require staff for deployment and maintenance. It just works."
"The playbooks and the code the solution uses are quite useful."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"Its checking and validating ensures our packages are properly patched."
"One of the most valuable features is automation. We are doing automation infrastructure, which allows us to automate regular tasks. This solution provides us with a service catalog, like building new services and automating daily tasks."
"They should make it easier to order it, however, that's generally true for everything from Microsoft."
"Integration with Mac devices requires some improvement."
"I think there should be a better tracking of the cell phones used on the Intune."
"Lacking ability to leverage more iOS device management internally."
"We haven't really gone through all the features of Intune. We are just discovering them. Every day, we see a new feature that we want to apply, but what will be great for Intune is to be able to deploy apps in a simple fashion. We should be able to easily install various apps on the Windows platform, iOS, and Android. Currently, we have to write some scripts. It's not as straightforward as we would like it to be. It should be simplified so that we can do it just with three clicks—next, next, finish—without needing to write a script."
"The scalability could be improved, and like most other MDM products, Intune is good but not 100% there yet."
"Technical support is not that great."
"There is no catalog for mobile access management (MAM) security."
"There is no other functionality available to patch the containers that we need to include."
"The setup of this suite is very complicated. It needs to be simplified."
"I would like to see a better methodology for handling REST calls and integration into the APIs. They add new APIs as they add functions, but they've missed some from older components which they still haven't added in. Some of the APIs are there but the CLI calls are not there."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"Provisioning needs to be more user-friendly. We were using BladeLogic for provisioning, but due to a lot of issues and complications, we had to stop using provisioning with this tool."
"A better CLI Database cleanup tool would help us with our regular maintenance of BladeLogic Server Automation."
"We would like to see this solution handle more multitasking."
"I would like to see more container integration in the next release of this solution."
"What I'm trying to figure out, personally, is, when doing mass updates, how I can parallelize that a little bit better. It seems right now - and maybe, it's a shortcoming on my end - that I run through one set of servers, and then another set of servers, ad then another set of servers, but it seems like I could throw a lot of these checks out. Different types of servers, like web servers and DB servers, if I could parallelize that a little bit to make everything run a little bit more efficiently, that would help."
"It would be helpful to have templates for common configurations. It would make it much easier and faster rather than creating a whole script. The templates would decrease the learning curve as well."
"Improvements should be made in terms of execution speed, which is, I believe, the most lacking feature. Aside from that, re-triggering a failed task is another useful feature."
"The area which I feel can be improved is the custom modules. For example, there are something like 106 official modules available in the Ansible library. A year ago, that number was somewhere around 58. While Ansible is improving day by day, this can be improved more. For instance, when you need to configure in the cloud, you need to write up a module for that."
"It should support more integration with different products."
"Additional features could be added."
"Some of the Cisco modules could be expanded, which would be great, along with not having to do so much coding in the background to make it work."
"There could be more stuff in the workflows. I hope that if I have ten templates with different services on it, workflow could auto-populate all the template-based services."
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BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Server Automation writes "Helps to automate and configure the endpoints of servers ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Its agentless, making the deployment fast and easy". BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform and Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BigFix. See our BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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