We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and BMC TrueSight Network Automation 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."We use a local Active Directory, but we weren't able to manage all our on-site systems without a solution like Intune, and we needed to deploy software like VPNs and other things. It's seamless now to to this through Intune."
"The stability is good."
"We have a BYOD policy, and this solution helps us manage our devices."
"Among the most valuable features are the Company Portal that is built into Intune, and the update rings so that we can manage what types of future updates the devices get."
"We are using the mobile feature, and we are also using MDM to lock the devices, to push restrictions, et cetera"
"Maturity makes it a stable product."
"...Intune itself integrates with that entire Microsoft ecosystem. As an individual product itself, it's okay. It holds up. But when you start saying "I've bought this as part of a wider solution, as a company we are going Microsoft throughout," then it makes more sense to have Microsoft Intune... so you have that single dashboard."
"The most valuable includes managing everything from a single console."
"The CloudFormation template can be reused to create multiple stacks, reducing duplications and improving our infrastructure."
"The most beneficial aspect lies in its capability to handle input acquisition and assessment."
"With CloudFormation, there is no need to use complicated coding."
"The most valuable features of AWS CloudFormation are all the resources documentation is located in one location, simple resource reverting, and ease of use of the full package for new users."
"The integration of the solution is very good."
"CloudFormation gives us control of AWS and any Cloud infrastructure. It creates the whole stack for Cloud services technologies so it's easy to manage the whole system."
"Its ability to treat infrastructure's code is valuable. It makes things automatable and reproducible."
"It allows defining the infrastructure as code using templates, which describe the desired state of the infrastructure."
"The compliance management, patching, and OS upgrades are useful features."
"The log audit and historical configurations are the most valuable feature."
"The network security of BMC TrueSight Network Automation has been the best feature."
"It has the best automation features."
"We use it to back up configurations so the configuration management is valuable for us."
"This product has helped us because we can now do many tasks at once. Rather than copy one file to one device, we can do an entire group at one time."
"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Network Automation is compliance management, configuration backup, and configuration management."
"Depending on who's looking at the data, they need to configure that data in different ways, and the dashboards help us to do that better than what was previously available."
"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."
"It just doesn't handle software updates well at all by itself. You need to be a scripting wizard to make those happen properly, or you use third-party tools. The Windows feature updates are very difficult to implement. I would like to see a proprietary built-in remote control tool. I know that they have Team Viewer integrated, but it is not seamless. It would be nice if they had a seamless remote desktop capability directly from the Intune console."
"There is room for improvement in integrating additional features such as Purview and SharePoint activities into Intune."
"Enhancements for managing MacOS more comprehensively would be beneficial."
"There needs to be more support for Mac operating systems."
"From a new user's perspective, it may be a little overwhelming because there are quite a few things to look at in the console, however, once you are sort of acclimated and are familiar with your core functions, it's fairly simple and straightforward."
"The current Intune reporting functionality could benefit from some improvements."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"Provisioning a large environment or a large number of services takes a bit more time than with Terraform."
"The conditions that can be added in AWS CloudFormation are not as powerful as any programming language."
"The solution must enable more hands-on designing of the templates."
"Error-handling features can be improved."
"Creating the inline policies is not great."
"Including certain examples of templates would be advantageous."
"This tool is not intuitive and there are others that are easier to understand."
"The solution needs to offer better support to other cloud vendors."
"We've been working with BMC support in various ways such as to allow for the high-availability components to the TSIMs to work together. There have been issues there. We've seen randomness in how other pieces of the software work. Integration with the Presentation Server and the TSIMs has been a challenge. The ports that are required for HA to be utilized were not clearly documented anywhere. In fact, they still aren't documented online anywhere, even though we managed to pull it out of some of their support people."
"BMC TrueSight Network Automation can improve by having a better UI. The overall quality of the UI could be better."
"The product should be expanded to include more hardware, beyond Cisco and Juniper devices."
"I believe there could be new features in terms of the latest technology."
"I'd like to be able to get more devices into compliance with standards, but that means running additional rule sets and that takes time."
"It is tedious to scale the solution."
"For customized compliance, it takes some effort to implement things. If the device configuration is quite complex, then you have to do quite number of customizations in the DNA tool for out-of-the-box compliance. These regular expressions have to be modified based on the requirements of the compliance."
"They need to have a single sign-on."
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AWS CloudFormation is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 26 reviews while BMC TrueSight Network Automation is ranked 18th in Configuration Management with 10 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.2, while BMC TrueSight Network Automation is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AWS CloudFormation writes "Pretty easy setup with great automations for provisioning that save time and money". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Network Automation writes "Helps with patching, OS upgrade, and security vulnerability management". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite and Chef, whereas BMC TrueSight Network Automation is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, VMware NSX and OpenText Network Automation. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. BMC TrueSight Network Automation report.
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