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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Intune
Sponsored
Ranking in Configuration Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
382
Ranking in other categories
Remote Access (2nd), Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) (1st), Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (1st)
HashiCorp Terraform
Ranking in Configuration Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
53
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Spring Cloud
Ranking in Configuration Management
23rd
Average Rating
6.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Configuration Management category, the mindshare of Microsoft Intune is 4.3%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HashiCorp Terraform is 7.8%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring Cloud is 2.4%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Intune4.3%
HashiCorp Terraform7.8%
Spring Cloud2.4%
Other85.5%
Configuration Management
 

Featured Reviews

HA
Senior Business Development Executive at Digitaltrack
Centralized device management has automated onboarding and improves remote security compliance
One thing I feel Microsoft Intune could improve is troubleshooting visibility. In many cases, when a policy or application deployment fails, the error messages are a bit generic. So, admins still spend time checking logs manually or testing on devices one by one. Compared to the simplicity of deployment, troubleshooting sometimes feels less mature. I also think reporting and real-time monitoring could be stronger. The dashboard gives useful information, but in large environments, many teams still depend on additional tools or scripts for deeper reporting and analytics. If I had to focus on one area first, I would probably choose troubleshooting and reporting. Deployment through Microsoft Intune is generally straightforward, but when something fails, identifying the exact root cause can still take more time than expected. Error messages are sometimes too generic, and admins often have to dig through logs, sync status, or multiple portals to understand what actually happened. I think user experience and policy management could also improve further. Microsoft Intune has become much better over the years, but sometimes the admin portal still feels fragmented because certain configurations open in different sections or redirect to older interfaces. For new admins, especially, it can take time to understand where everything is located. Another thing is policy conflict handling. In larger organizations, multiple device policies, compliance rules, and configuration profiles can overlap. When conflicts happen, the visibility is not always very clear, so admins spend time figuring out which policy actually won or caused the issue.
Venkateswarareddy Sanikommu - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Platform Engineer at Giant Group
Infrastructure as code has unified multi-environment deployments and empowers secure teamwork
The advantages of HashiCorp Terraform include its declarative nature, allowing us to secure our entire infrastructure code in a way that everyone can read and understand. This means we can maintain least privilege access while ensuring ease of understanding in the code, making HashiCorp Terraform really helpful. Additionally, the design and structure can be customized according to our project strategy while maintaining a secure state that can always be updated in the cloud. Modular architecture significantly facilitates consistency and efficiency in our infrastructure deployment processes. We custom build modules that allow us to roll out new functionalities without affecting the overall system, ensuring compatibility with HashiCorp Terraform versions and providers. This enables flexibility in deployment and the use of multiple environments without raising issues. The open-source nature of HashiCorp Terraform and community contributions are indeed important. Over the years, I have seen benefits from using HashiCorp Cloud capabilities that enhance HashiCorp Terraform's features, including secure state management and the ability to set stringent policies. While the open-source version is secure, using HashiCorp Cloud provides better flexibility and support for larger enterprises, allowing for enhanced governance that smaller teams can also utilize.
Erick  Karanja - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Cellulant Kenya
Highly scalable development of cloud-native applications that offers an extensive range of tools and features, with significant learning curve and complex configurations
We use it for building cloud-native applications and APIs and it helps us effectively manage various aspects of our application It enables you to create applications that can start up more quickly than a standard Spring Boot application. It would be beneficial for the framework to become more…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Overall, the best features of Microsoft Intune are its ease of management and robust security protocols, which are what I value most about it and how it stands out."
"I like how Intune deploys the policies and makes them customizable. You can deploy it through Intune and forget about it."
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"This product allows us to restrict users who have access to the system, or to Office 365."
"Intune's most valuable features are its device management capabilities, particularly its centralized integration with other Microsoft stack components."
"It helps implement conditional access policies to restrict mobile users from accessing potentially dangerous emails."
"Intune reduces the load on our on-prem Active Directory by having everything go to one Intune panel, so we can configure group policies, deploy applications, and manage devices, and it has really improved our operations."
"It is a wonderful product; I would advise others to go for it because it is definitely helpful for an enterprise and has been improving constantly."
"HashiCorp Terraform has changed my workflow significantly because it spends considerably less time compared to my previous approach and I can say that it is 10 times faster than my previous method."
"Before we used it, we were writing a lot of scripts to provision infrastructure and there weren't guidelines for anything on how to provision and how our environment will look, now with Terraform, it's all templated and everyone in my team just uses modules that are templates, modules of Terraform, and all our environments look the same."
"Can be used across multiple cloud providers and multiple platforms."
"The environment is very good. That's awesome."
"The ARM template is very easy to work with, which is a big help to us."
"We save a lot of time with this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Terraform is its ability to easily connect and manage various cloud services, such as AWS, Azure and GCP."
"The most valuable feature of Terraform is the ability to use it as a coding language because it works in a way that's similar to other coding languages."
"Spring Cloud integrates well, and as it's code-based, you can do more customization, so with the way you configure or code, you can have your custom implementations, making it the best integration option if you have Java Spring Web Services."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward. The deployment process took me around ten minutes to fifteen minutes."
"Spring Cloud integrates well."
"It offers excellent scalability."
 

Cons

"The scalability could be improved, and like most other MDM products, Intune is good but not 100% there yet."
"Intune's server management could be better. If it could incorporate more features from System Center into Intune's Configuration Manager, it would be beneficial."
"The reporting causes problems because we're trying to gather data to present to the management, but we can't get the data they request. If a user has removed an application from his device, but it won't report it at exactly the right time. It takes time to sync from the device to the portal. Let's say we are preparing a list or deck for the number of compliant devices that meet all of the organization's requirements. In a real-time scenario, that device could be compliant, but it is showing as non-compliant on the portal. It sometimes hampers the overall decisions that we make on our end."
"I wanted to check if there is any provision at the Intune level to restrict certain things, such as a website, but unfortunately, that feature is available only in Microsoft Defender. Intune has web filtering capabilities, but they are only useful for protection from malicious websites, whereas we would like to be able to restrict a website. For example, YouTube is a clean website. No one would identify it as a malicious website, but if we want to stop the end-users from going to that website, we have to go for another product, such as Microsoft Defender or another third-party proxy solution. It would be great if this capability is included in Intune."
"The product needs to upgrade itself when the server is overloaded."
"Every day, we see a new feature that we want to apply, but what will be great for Intune is to be able to deploy apps in a simple fashion."
"I rate Microsoft support four out of 10. Support is one area where Microsoft needs to improve a lot. I recently raised a ticket for a Microsoft Azure issue, and it took two and a half weeks for support to reply. They need to improve support across their entire catalog of products."
"The tool's tunnel gateway is not very good, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Terraform should also support YAML language, which is more user-friendly than HCL. They should also add a GUI, so you don't need to memorize all the commands. A GUI would enable us to do everything with a click of a button."
"One area for improvement could be the inclusion of more dedicated Terraform providers developed by the companies themselves, rather than relying on third-party developers."
"The integration with this solution needs to be improved."
"Some areas where Terraform could improve would be challenges in managing sensitive information, especially when dealing with secret files or credentials."
"It should have a more object-oriented approach like different coding languages."
"They should include tutorials for understanding the use cases."
"The area for improvement is the speed at which resources become available."
"There is always room for improvement somewhere. I don't know everything about the product."
"It would be beneficial for the framework to become more lightweight and efficient when transitioning to the cloud."
"Stability is one area in the solution that needs to improve."
"If there's a dashboard like the ones provided by Apigee or Kong, that will be useful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is somewhat on the higher side, particularly when considering certain price points, especially in markets like India."
"The price is reasonable, but they should lower it a bit to make it more competitive. It's cheaper than AirWatch and other products, but I still feel like Microsoft can make a base version or with Exchange online or a la carte only Intune version which will be useful. A customer who doesn't want to go full-fledged E3 or E5 can take out or consume an Intune solution only for their purpose, and we want to target that customer."
"I recently got to know that the AD P1 license is compulsory to use Intune Autopilot, which was surprising for me. Earlier, this was not the case. It is the wrong thing to do. We now need to purchase AD P1 licenses for us and for our customers. I would rate it a seven out of ten for pricing."
"It is expensive. The cost depends on the license that we choose."
"It's affordable. It's cheaper if you have an Office 365, E5, or E3 subscription because everything is there."
"There is a cost benefit of using Microsoft Intune because of the packaging with other Microsoft products."
"This cost is approximately $30 USD per user per month."
"We work with the subscription rather than a server license. I think it's economical this way because we don't have to have a server license for that, and I think that works in our favor."
"The setup for Terraform is quite easy and currently, we are using their community version along with Jenkins."
"I rate the price of HashiCorp Terraform a seven out of ten."
"We use the solution's free version."
"There are free and paid versions of the solution. We use the free version."
"HashiCorp Terraform is a free solution."
"It is an open-source product."
"The solution is fairly priced."
"You can do everything with the free license of this solution."
"It is an open-source or free version solution. It also has a paid version, but we have used the open-source version for now."
"Currently, we are not required to pay for licenses."
"Spring Cloud is an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Consumer Goods Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Outsourcing Company
12%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business193
Midsize Enterprise64
Large Enterprise189
By reviewers
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Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise26
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