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."It's not working perfectly, but Microsoft's Autopilot offers great visibility into automated deployment solutions."
"I like the tool's integration with Apple. Anyone who creates an ID in Intune will get an Apple ID."
"The solution appears to be stable and scalable."
"It is a comprehensive security solution that not only controls access to enterprise resources but also tracks and prevents unauthorized access, ensuring the protection of sensitive data and preventing potential data loss scenarios."
"The Asset Management and Auto Pilot are valuable features."
"It works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"Conditional access has helped us tailor and enforce our security policies in the mobile space."
"The device profiling which uses the official Outlook email enabled us to control the screenshot feature and prevent copying outside of the organization's application."
"Servers are patched more consistently than they have been previously."
"Almost every feature is wonderful in BigFix. It is very stable, and we can rely on it. It is an awesome tool."
"It allows for visibility into the OT, the industrial environments, that didn't exist before which is a big piece and has benefited my organization. Second, the speed at which people can patch is night and day versus SCCM scan or another similar solution."
"It is a one-stop tool that allows you to do everything. It supports reporting, vulnerability management, patch management, and configuration. All things can be done in one tool."
"The most valuable feature of BigFix is the reporting tool and patching Windows."
"The most valuable feature is the patching."
"It has improved reliability upon delivery of software and has also helped reduce software expenses. The extensibility of BigFix helps to create custom solutions where we may have considered purchasing something instead."
"It's easy to use, not complicated."
"The feature "Terraform Plan" is the most valuable in HashiCorp Terraform as it allows us to see the differences between the current infrastructure and the one we are about to deploy, keeping things safe. Additionally, we appreciate the use of the modules as it helps in making the application scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Terraform is the ability to use it as a coding language because it works in a way that's similar to other coding languages."
"The most valuable features of HashiCorp Terraform are automation and management capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Terraform is the custom modules."
"One of the most valuable features is that it offers the ability to create a VPC, Virtual Private Cloud and VPN connectivity to the VPC can be automated without having to do it manually."
"The most valuable feature is the solution does not need installation."
"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."
"Modules can be reused extremely easily."
"The security features should be improved."
"There needs to be more support for Mac operating systems."
"There can be some added features, such as an improved dashboard. Any new feature that could be a benefit to our customers would be good."
"Integrating certain group policies can be challenging and may necessitate using on-premises systems to integrate them with Microsoft Intune."
"It would be great to see on-premises mailboxes and for the solution to have geofencing capabilities."
"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."
"The mobile and tablet-based versions need improvement because they are not completely user-friendly, compared to the web version. Also, data synchronization with our existing asset manager, the synchronization between multiple assets and multiple devices, takes a lot of time due to the security scanning. It should be reduced."
"Intune's areas for improvement revolve around security and certificate management."
"I would like to see the Self Service section made more user-friendly."
"I would like to see improvements in the Web UI program and also a BigFix console for Mac OS."
"I self-taught for this online, so the initial setup was a little difficult to pick up at first. I had to create a couple of testing environments and destroy them in order to learn how to use it. There was a lot of trial and error, a lot of reading of the manuals."
"The new EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) feature, Detect, is new and still needs a few updates."
"I'd like to see better integration, with the different applications within BigFix. Instead of sometimes feeling like four or five different applications, they need to be integrated a little better within themselves."
"It could use better integration with Hypervisor products like VMware."
"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."
"There is no support for patch management on SLES on IBM pSeries (only the Intel platform is supported)."
"The integration with this solution needs to be improved."
"This solution could be improved by adding features such as CDM to accelerate the access of data by the users."
"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."
"I would want to see more programmatic capabilities implemented, such as if, else, and simple to manage things in terms of how I can use some programming functions to assist us to achieve more. I would like to have programming language-relevant features, to have programming language be the primary way."
"Terraform doesn't support Artifactory as a backend."
"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."
"HashiCorp Terraform state management could be improved to be used efficiently with multi-users."
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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