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."The main advantage is that Intune performs its intended functions effectively."
"Maturity makes it a stable product."
"Intune's security features for Apple iOS and Mac OS are helpful. We can check enrollment, manage public and private settings, and manage the organization's data using security key features."
"The security-related tools are excellent; these features allow us to secure devices, lock them down, and ensure compliance."
"The most valuable includes managing everything from a single console."
"The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult."
"It helps implement conditional access policies to restrict mobile users from accessing potentially dangerous emails."
"It's easy to deploy a configuration or policy to a system, especially when you don't have Azure AD. Now we are talking to all these small and medium-sized customers who don't necessarily have an on-premise Windows Active Directory. If they have invested in Office 365 Premium, this functionality becomes available to them."
"This has very much improved our organization by saving time to deploy thousands of endpoints to our customers."
"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."
"Ability to run custom reports and custom relevance."
"We've had no issues with stability."
"BigFix can manage lost devices, so you can wipe them remotely to ensure the IP doesn't get out in public. Unified endpoint security is a new perspective. I know that HCL is also collaborating with IBM, but I'm not sure if there is any cooperation between them and MaaS360 or other endpoint components."
"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."
"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."
"Pre-packaged support for many third-party applications such as Adobe, Google, Mozilla, Sun (Java), WinZip, and others."
"Can be used across multiple cloud providers and multiple platforms."
"The ARM template is very easy to work with, which is a big help to us."
"It is easy to recreate an exact duplicate or output of an environment."
"With Terraform, you don't need to understand the console of your cloud providers. You only need to understand how Terraform works, and you manage your infrastructure tools in Terraform."
"I like the function that shows me a preview of what is happening in the infrastructure."
"It is the customization of Terraform's modules that I find most valuable."
"The solution allows us to work faster with ease and to set up new environments and workspaces."
"It is a stable solution."
"I would like some integration with the Microsoft reporting platform Power BI."
"Regarding mobile devices, Intune is good, but there are other services that I would say are ahead of Intune from an administration and reporting point of view."
"More integration with monitoring tools is needed."
"The synchronization could be improved."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see some kind of analytics report."
"The current Intune reporting functionality could benefit from some improvements."
"I think that there is room for improvement with the reporting. If this is done, it will be a better product."
"The main disadvantage seen today is regarding Linux clients. We have a lot of development resources that have Linux on their clients, and we can't manage them on the same platform, as we do with other clients such as macOS and Windows. So, it should have support for Linux clients. It should also have better support for macOS."
"We need a much better multi-tenant option."
"Relay selection and availability needs improvement as an incorrect relay selected can cause network chokes."
"The tool should be more friendly in terms of Web UI and should be having better vulnerability scanning mechanisms so a third-party application is not required to fulfill that aspect."
"To make it a ten they should improve the licensing. Second, if they could have one environment for everything it would be nice. For you to install compliance you need to install the server, and then you add the modules. For you to install inventory you install the server and then you add the modules. It's not easy to do. When I was doing it before I learned it, it was not straight forward."
"It can be improved speed-wise. They can make it a little bit light. If you do any query for servers in bulk, it can take some time. Similarly, creating a job can take some time."
"The console interface is not friendly, and requires training before using it in production."
"Needs to improve Network Access Protection (NAP) technologies to prevent computers with vulnerabilities from gaining access to networks."
"Its pricing should be improved. It is too costly."
"When a misconfiguration or drift occurs, fixing the issue can be difficult. For instance, if there is a change in API calls while a script is running, it can be challenging to make corrections. This may require additional review and modifications to the code. I recall an instance where an industry budget creation process was altered, and it took significant time to amend the code. In fact, I had to add five or six different script portions to resolve the issue."
"The product must improve DevOps features."
"Terraform could create more examples in the documentation."
"The user interface could be easier for non-technical people."
"Terraform doesn't support Artifactory as a backend."
"This solution could be improved by adding features such as CDM to accelerate the access of data by the users."
"From a user's perspective, it would be great if a UI tool is made available in the open source version as well, but I don't think it may be introduced because of the high costs for it announced by HashiCorp in its licensed version...HashiCorp Terraform can improve backward compatibility."
"With cloud providers always adding new resource types, there are certain resources that Terraform does not support. It would be great if it could support those resources as well."
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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