We performed a comparison between BigFix and Ivanti Security Controls based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Patch Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable point is when you deploy an application, you have to make sure that the application has been deployed to all computers and that is working perfectly. This solution works well at deployments."
"It allows us to quickly deploy capabilities that we need, whether it be security or non-security. We use it to keep systems up to date, deploy new drivers, find the information we need in the case of security incidents. The capability allows us to gather a lot of information very quickly and it also allows us to have a centralized reporting feature and a centralized deployment capability which is nice."
"We are able to go from patching thousands of machines by twenty to thirty people to one person."
"BigFix has drastically reduced the maintenance window period to patch and reboot servers."
"The architecture for patching and the 100% correct reporting makes BigFix stand apart from other solutions."
"Before we had BigFix, we had problems with some malware. BigFix allows us to immediately patch all instances of endpoints that were vulnerable to antivirus and initiate scans. That's key."
"The best feature of BigFix is its multi-platform support."
"BigFix is incredibly fast and accurate in patching, reporting, and remediation."
"Technical support is helpful and responsive."
"What has been most valuable is the ability to manage, restore and install upgrades and applications. We scan PCs and server and receive results."
"I would eventually like to see a SaaS offering, a cloud-hosted BigFix instance where we only have to put a relay in our environment."
"The solution could improve by adding support drivers for different systems and equipment. When you have a lot of different computers if they could fix how to install any updates, firmware, or drivers for different systems or servers it would be good."
"The deployment has room for improvement and can be more streamlined."
"They need better integration."
"We would like to see a different license plan, e.g. to include features from lifecycle with Patch Management, as an example."
"To make it a ten they should improve the licensing. Second, if they could have one environment for everything it would be nice. For you to install compliance you need to install the server, and then you add the modules. For you to install inventory you install the server and then you add the modules. It's not easy to do. When I was doing it before I learned it, it was not straight forward."
"Sometimes there is a lag time for our users."
"One aspect that could be improved is the speed of the console. Sometimes it can be slow, which is something that needs to be addressed."
"It should be more scalable."
"For the Windows upgrade, the errors we experience are not clear. We see a time out error but do not know the reason. We would like to know the root cause."
BigFix is ranked 2nd in Patch Management with 91 reviews while Ivanti Security Controls is ranked 14th in Patch Management with 2 reviews. BigFix is rated 8.6, while Ivanti Security Controls is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ivanti Security Controls writes "Straightforward to set up and good support but needs to be on the cloud". BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Tanium, whereas Ivanti Security Controls is most compared with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Ivanti Patch for Linux, UNIX, Mac, Ivanti Patch for Endpoint Manager and Ivanti Neurons Patch for Intune. See our BigFix vs. Ivanti Security Controls report.
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