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We performed a comparison between IBM Service Delivery Manager and Puppet Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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A set-it-and-forget-it management solution
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  • "The main thing that we noticed when we switched from the enterprise version to the community version was the difference in cost — the infrastructure is pretty expensive."
  • "Depending on the size of the organization there is a point when the price of Puppet Enterprise should be lower. However, they provide really good functionality, features, and capabilities."
  • "Puppet Enterprise’s pricing is competitive."
  • "Puppet Enterprise can be an expensive solution for smaller businesses."

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    What do you like most about Puppet Enterprise?
    Top Answer:Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Puppet Enterprise?
    Top Answer:Puppet Enterprise can be an expensive solution for smaller businesses.
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    Top Answer:Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it.
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    58th
    out of 75 in Cloud Management
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    Overview

    IBM Service Delivery Manager is a single solution that provides all the necessary software components to implement cloud computing. Cloud computing is a services acquisition and delivery model for IT resources, which can help improve business performance and control the costs of delivering IT resources to an organization. As a cloud computing quick start, IBM Service Delivery Manager allows organizations to benefit from this delivery model in a defined portion of their data center or for a specific internal project. Potential benefits include:

    • Reduction in operational and capital expenditures.
    • Enhanced productivity - the ability to innovate more with fewer resources.
    • Decreased time-to-market for business features that increase competitiveness.
    • Standardized and consolidated IT services that drive improved resource utilization.
    • Increased resiliency to market demands.
    • Improved quality of service for IT consumers.

    Puppet Data Center Automation helps sysadmins automate configuration and management of machines and the software running on them. With our software, businesses can make rapid, repeatable changes and automatically enforce the consistency of systems and devices, across physical and virtual machines, on prem or in the cloud.

    Sample Customers
    Whogohost Ltd., Infinity Computers and Communications Company, Outokumpu, Salesbox, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Seekr, CLOUD M, CenterPoint Energy, Apptimate AB, WeCloud AB, Earth Signal, DSB Consulting, Inventive, SKIData AG
    Los Alamos National Laboratory, GitHub, IP Commerce, Cedexis, Spiceworks, Server Density, Swisstopo, Chockstone, Constant Contact, NICS, Citrix
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization41%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Government5%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business69%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise23%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise47%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    IBM Service Delivery Manager is ranked 58th in Cloud Management while Puppet Enterprise doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Management with 12 reviews. IBM Service Delivery Manager is rated 0.0, while Puppet Enterprise is rated 8.2. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". IBM Service Delivery Manager is most compared with , whereas Puppet Enterprise is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and BigFix.

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