We performed a comparison between Microsoft Intune and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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 one feature we find most useful is the Mobile Application Manager. There are two types, we have the complete MDM and the Mobile Application Manager(MAM). We don't give our users phones, it is their own personal phone, and we need to allow them to have access to the company detail on their phone. We need to create a balance between their own personal data and the company data. We deploy the Mobile Application Manager for them so that we won't be able to interfere with their own personal data."
"It works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"Intune's most valuable features are the device, compliance, and configuration policies."
"I like the group policy management feature, which performs application monitoring and device enrollment."
"It is a very stable and scalable cloud-only solution."
"The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult."
"I like that we can implement conditional access."
"Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform are the agentless platform and writing the code is simple using the Yaml computer language."
"We can automate a few host configurations using the product."
"Its checking and validating ensures our packages are properly patched."
"It is very easy to use, and there is less room for error."
"The automation manager is very good."
"I like the agentless feature. This means we don't install any agent in worker nodes."
"It enabled me to take the old build manifest and automated everything. So when it came time to spin everything up, it was quick and simple. I could spin it up and test it out. And then, when it came time to roll production, it was a done deal. When we expanded to multiple data centers, it was same thing: Change a few IP addresses, change some names, and off we went."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with Apple."
"Microsoft Intune needs to improve the initial login process."
"Reporting could be improved. It needs to be more expensive and robust."
"It would be better if I could integrate it with my core group policy. I would like to have a group policy in my current environment, which has strict control, but those things are still missing. Although it has maximum compliance and security, it's not available on-premise."
"While Intune works perfectly well, the only potential downside is that the deployment could be a bit complex for some users."
"The biggest problem we ever have is when something goes out of date after 30 days when nobody has logged into it. We do have a problem trying to get those back online. We've been working with Microsoft to resolve that problem, but that's been the only issue that we've had in the last few years."
"The reporting and cost have room for improvement."
"Networking needs to be improved."
"What I'm trying to figure out, personally, is, when doing mass updates, how I can parallelize that a little bit better. It seems right now - and maybe, it's a shortcoming on my end - that I run through one set of servers, and then another set of servers, ad then another set of servers, but it seems like I could throw a lot of these checks out. Different types of servers, like web servers and DB servers, if I could parallelize that a little bit to make everything run a little bit more efficiently, that would help."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"We would like support for the post-integration of this product before cloud frameworks because right now their approach is to avoid using on-premises activities and move everything to the cloud."
"When you set up Playbooks, I may have one version of the Playbook, but another member of the team may have a different vision, and we will not know which version is correct. We want to have one central repository for managing the different versions of Playbooks, so we can have better collaboration among team members. This is our use case for using Git version control."
"There are some options not available in the community edition of the solution."
"The tool should allow us to create infrastructure. It has everything when it comes to management, but it lacks the provisioning aspect."
"For a couple of the API integrations, there has been a lack of documentation."
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Microsoft Intune is ranked 3rd in Configuration Management with 163 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". 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 Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, SOTI MobiControl and Microsoft Entra ID, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BMC TrueSight Server Automation. See our Microsoft Intune vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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