We performed a comparison between Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Ansible comes out on top in this comparison due to its easy setup, high performance, open-source license, and proven ROI.
"Intune's most valuable features are the device, compliance, and configuration policies."
"It is a helpful tool to manage BYOD policies."
"The most valuable feature is probably mobile device management. Small businesses are coming under greater scrutiny and requirements for compliance as time goes on. We don't have to worry about a VPN because we can manage these devices, control company data, and lock users out. If needed, we can remotely wipe devices and deadman-switch them."
"The most valuable feature is the policy CSPs."
"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."
"There has been a noticeable increase in productivity for both my organization and clients."
"The solution is scalable. We currently have tens of thousands of users within our organization using the solution."
"We have not experienced any bugs or glitches with this solution."
"It is a good choice for deployment that performs very well."
"The product is useful for patch management."
"It is a very well-rounded product. It is a complete package with all the features using which we are able to manage our PCs very efficiently."
"The solution has a very good set of features."
"It uses detailed descriptions of the workstations, and that is good for me."
"The scalability to deploy the package."
"What's valuable is the basic management of the systems, being able to control who can access the systems."
"The most valuable feature of SCCM is the application distribution."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is quite stable. If you set it up correctly with the right configurations and there are no hiccups during installation and deployment, it will be stable. I'd give stability a rating of eight out of ten."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The playbooks and the code the solution uses are quite useful."
"Feature-wise, the solution is a good open-source software offering broad support. Also, it's reliable."
"This solution allows us to stitch a lot of different parts of the workflow together."
"On the network side, I already have a lot of our firewall related processes automated. If it's not automated all the way from the ticket system, our network team members, our tier-one guys in India, can just go into the Tower web interface and fill in a couple of survey questions."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"An area for improvement is the absence of seamless integration, particularly with external dashboards."
"We only have major classifications for iOS and Android, but there are different brands that have different cycles of updates. If they can fine-tune it to make it more brand-specific, that would be even better."
"I'd like some more reporting so that I don't have to delve into PowerShell and I can pull more of the local device information such as memory, apps installed, etc. It would be nice to be able to see the apps that are present there but might not be managed. For example, if they installed 7Zip, it could report that back via an installed program or feature to see what was currently installed."
"It would help if administrators could pinpoint the exact location of a stolen device to help law enforcement retrieve it and apprehend the suspect."
"Could benefit from user having more control over devices."
"I think there should be a better tracking of the cell phones used on the Intune."
"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."
"When Microsoft Intune is used with different android devices it does not always work as it is supposed to."
"Built in PowerShell cmdlets would be a nice feature because managing clients remotely can be a pain without knowing the WMI calls to run."
"The tool's deployment is difficult. Microsoft needs to improve documentation with videos."
"It needs to be able to load faster during deployment."
"The ability to integrate MDM would be great."
"Initial setup was complex. There's a lot that goes into it."
"We'd like the solution to make it easier to manage remote users."
"The operations could be faster and you need some patience with this tool."
"In terms of the monitoring, the timeframe it takes to actually report back on the compliance of a device after it has been patched is a bit too long."
"Performance has been an issue on larger environments, but it has gotten a lot better over the past two years."
"Documentation could be improved. Many times, if I'm looking for something, I have to Google it in a lot of places, then figure out what the best approach will be. There are some best practices documents, but they don't give you the information."
"Accessibility. Ansible uses a CLI by default. Those accustomed to it can find their way and adopt the YAML files easily over time. But, some users are more comfortable using UIs..."
"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."
"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."
"They should think of this product as an end-to-end solution and begin to develop it that way."
"Ansible could use more public relations and marketing."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Configuration Management with 78 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium, AWS Systems Manager and Red Hat Satellite, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps, BMC TrueSight Server Automation and BigFix. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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