User Reviews of BigFix & Chef

Updated June 2025

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BigFix review

Bella Yakoby
Bella Yakoby
CEO at Novilis
Offers third-party patching feature, good scalability, and enhance endpoint...
From the perspective of the team that's handling the environment, it's not so user-friendly compared to other solutions, the competitors. We hire new teams from time to time, and they are complaining, look, although BigFix is very robust and cross-platform, it's not so fun to work with. The user interface for the technical teams is not so...
Chef review

Aaron  P
Aaron P
DevOps Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Easy configuration management, optimization abilities, and complete infrastructure...
In terms of improvement, Chef could get better by being more widely available, adapting to different needs, and providing better documentation. There is also an issue with shared resources like cookbooks lacking context, which could lead to problems when multiple companies use them. Chef should aim for wider availability, better...

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