We performed a comparison between AWS CloudFormation and BMC TrueSight Server 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."I like the group policy management feature, which performs application monitoring and device enrollment."
"Mobile device management is most valuable."
"Remote Wipe and Autopilot is one of the best features."
"It is quite policy-enabled, so you can build pretty much any policy to manage remote endpoints."
"Intune device restriction policies enable me to enforce limitations on the device, like blocking the mobile camera or restricting the employees from using and inserting USB devices, including thumb drives and flash drives."
"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."
"Maturity makes it a stable product."
"The reporting and analytics features in Microsoft Intune have been a lifesaver."
"AWS CloudFormation has automated the resource-building process, thereby removing the scope of human errors. We can tag the resources which help the billing process."
"I appreciate the flexibility of infrastructure as code. With CloudFormation, we can define ground rules, control usage limits, and scale our infrastructure up or down programmatically. Having this level of control through code on infra is a major benefit. That's the beauty of CloudFormation."
"What I found most valuable in AWS CloudFormation is its configurability. The solution is easy to configure. I also like its change management configuration because that's also good."
"It allows defining the infrastructure as code using templates, which describe the desired state of the infrastructure."
"What I like best about AWS CloudFormation is that it is a quick and simple way to deploy various applications, like WordPress."
"Since AWS CloudFormation integrates well with the AWS platform, it facilitates faster deployment. Building templates for AWS services within the solution is also straightforward, making the process easier."
"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."
"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."
"BMC support is great. They usually can answer any of our questions in a short amount of time and solve our most complex issues."
"Among the most valuable features is its flexibility and ability to work across multiple operating systems. Being able to execute some form of data collection and not have to worry about whether I'm working on a Linux box, or a Windows box, or the underlying OS, I can do these collections, get these results, and put them together in a uniform format which makes it easier to present back to management."
"BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments."
"Can standardize patching and deployments across affiliates."
"Server Automation's best feature is automated patching. It also helps us automate compliance and report generation. We can even integrate TrueSight Server Automation with a vulnerability management solution to remedy vulnerabilities by applying patches, deploying scripts, or changing registry entries."
"The product's valuable feature is its ability to conduct patching for multiple servers simultaneously."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"The solution is stable."
"I would like to see easier pushdowns. Currently, we have to package our own software and then push it. Intune can make that way easier and integrate applications, such as Zoom and Adobe Acrobat, that are used by a lot of enterprise or corporate organizations."
"It needs incorporation of Knox, ZeroTouch, etc."
"Due to the abundance of features, there's a lot to organize, which makes managing and setting up the solution challenging. The setup is immense, and it would be good to see improvement in this area."
"Could benefit from user having more control over devices."
"It would be great to see on-premises mailboxes and for the solution to have geofencing capabilities."
"Additional application deployment options e.g. MSI deployment with more complex parameters or additional side-by-side files, and non-MSI deployment options."
"The policies we had in SCCM and AD offered features that are missing from Microsoft Intune."
"I think that there is room for improvement with the reporting. If this is done, it will be a better product."
"As soon as they manage to parametrize the whole thing and to implement parameters at all levels, it will become automatically a lot more flexible."
"AWS CloudFormation allows you to use the code templates written in JSON and YAML, but not directly in Python. Adding this feature would be beneficial."
"There could be better error handling. It would be a good way to improve the solution."
"For improvement, it's crucial that AWS provides options in terms of computing services, DB related services, and machine learning solutions. If I'm not hands-on with a particular service, like machine learning applications, I struggle to write the CloudFormation code."
"The solution needs to offer better support to other cloud vendors."
"Creating the inline policies is not great."
"The conditions that can be added in AWS CloudFormation are not as powerful as any programming language."
"They could improve the product's capability to handle circular dependencies more effectively."
"The architecture is big, so the initial setup is not a straightforward task."
"Provisioning needs to be more user-friendly. We were using BladeLogic for provisioning, but due to a lot of issues and complications, we had to stop using provisioning with this tool."
"Without any knowledge of the product, we used the KB articles to start working. As a result, we definitely did not have full knowledge of BMC BladeLogic... They need to provide a minimum of knowledge with training on YouTube or somewhere else."
"I would like to see a better methodology for handling REST calls and integration into the APIs. They add new APIs as they add functions, but they've missed some from older components which they still haven't added in. Some of the APIs are there but the CLI calls are not there."
"I would like to see more container integration in the next release of this solution."
"Another area for improvement is group scheduling if I'm trying to do all the servers. For example, if I want to do all the 2012 Servers - since the patches are the same for all of them - I can't do so."
"Scaling the environment during setup at larger organizations with 10,000 employees gets complicated."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
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AWS CloudFormation is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 26 reviews while BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews. AWS CloudFormation is rated 8.2, while BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2. 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 Server Automation writes "Easy to deploy, automatic patching, and scalable". AWS CloudFormation is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Spring Cloud, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite and Chef, whereas BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and HashiCorp Terraform. See our AWS CloudFormation vs. BMC TrueSight Server Automation report.
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