We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Server Automation 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 main features of the solution is it allows the management of many devices in different ways."
"The best feature is that we don't need to worry about downtime. We don't need to worry about the network connections of our office or the virtual private network. Everything is being done through the internet. Using Intune Autopilot, we can configure and deploy everything to the devices."
"I like the tool's integration with Apple. Anyone who creates an ID in Intune will get an Apple ID."
"I can see that the patch management process is much improved with the bundled patch management option available in Microsoft Intune compared to the KPI deployment required by the other deployment solutions."
"The central administration con dashboard is very easy to use and provides very good oversight on all that needs to be monitored."
"It is helpful for managing devices anytime and any place without requiring dependency on the local networks."
"We can securely manage both company-owned devices and personal devices enrolled in our BYOD program."
"Based on my experience, I find Intune very flexible for managing Windows devices. We can use scripting, and we can make use of the self-service portal or the company portal to publish some of the applications for Windows."
"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."
"The most important feature is the schedulings."
"The solution is stable."
"The best feature of the solution is patch automation."
"BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments."
"With BMC, we even configured applications, like IE or things that were Java-related. When we scheduled the jobs, it worked fine. It saved us time and there was no need for resources to monitor them."
"The product's valuable feature is its ability to conduct patching for multiple servers simultaneously."
"Scalability is good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its simplicity of SQL language, its compatibility with multiple cloud providers, and its modules like the open source modules available, especially considering the fact that I work mainly on AWS."
"The first thing I like about the solution is that it keeps a version of your infrastructure."
"The concept of infrastructure as code is quite intriguing. We have an infrastructure in our code and a state file where we can verify whether something is changed when it was changed, and who changed it. When we use Terraform, these kinds of things fascinate us."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the support for different platforms like cloud, datacenters, VCS, databases, various storage types, and Kubernetes."
"This solution makes it easier to manage a multi-cloud environment and have your entire infrastructure as code."
"The most valuable features of Terraform are leveraging public modules for EKS, KMS, and ECR."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the modules it offers."
"Deploying an app can be a complex process due to dependencies."
"The backend of Microsoft Intune needs to be improved. We have seen a little bit of delay as compared to other MDM solutions. That needs to be improved. A little bit more granularity should also be added"
"Microsoft Intune lags market leaders, such as Apperian, in its MAM capabilities."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see some kind of analytics report."
"They need to integrate more with security options."
"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."
"I wanted to check if there is any provision at the Intune level to restrict certain things, such as a website, but unfortunately, that feature is available only in Microsoft Defender. Intune has web filtering capabilities, but they are only useful for protection from malicious websites, whereas we would like to be able to restrict a website. For example, YouTube is a clean website. No one would identify it as a malicious website, but if we want to stop the end-users from going to that website, we have to go for another product, such as Microsoft Defender or another third-party proxy solution. It would be great if this capability is included in Intune."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"The architecture is big, so the initial setup is not a straightforward task."
"We've had to increase RAM and CPU processing in order to alleviate some of the sluggishness during patching."
"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."
"Scaling the environment during setup at larger organizations with 10,000 employees gets complicated."
"Resource management on the base servers is sluggish and could be improved."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"We encountered some reporting issues. Also, we needed to gather information from the backend before the product execution. The output's format is not good."
"TrueSight falls short when we are trying to gather large amounts of data from multiple servers. We need to do these tasks manually because there is no option to populate the data and export it to Excel, which is required. For example, let's say I'm trying to find out how many patches are missing on the servers and which ones have been installed. It's hard to automatically pull each server's data in an Excel format."
"The state locking functionality can be improved. In certain situations, we have to force-unlock the state, which sometimes does not work. When that happens, we have to manually go to the state backend and remove that particular state, which is kind of a cumbersome process. It should also have more functions, more expressions, and support for more products."
"They should include tutorials for understanding the use cases."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"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."
"There is always room for improvement somewhere. I don't know everything about the product."
"The solution is missing a lot of properties for specific resources."
"The user interface could be easier for non-technical people."
"Automation is needed to import everything at once from a manual environment or by a specific resource group."
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BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 7th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews. BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2, while HashiCorp Terraform 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 HashiCorp Terraform writes "Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments". BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM, whereas HashiCorp Terraform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, SaltStack, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Spring Cloud. See our BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs. HashiCorp Terraform report.
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