We performed a comparison between OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management and Puppet Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."It's really easy to access."
"It is a helpful tool to manage BYOD policies."
"We have not experienced any bugs or glitches with this solution."
"Based on my experience, I find Intune very flexible for managing Windows devices. We can use scripting, and we can make use of the self-service portal or the company portal to publish some of the applications for Windows."
"It's easy to manage."
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"It's easy to deploy a configuration or policy to a system, especially when you don't have Azure AD. Now we are talking to all these small and medium-sized customers who don't necessarily have an on-premise Windows Active Directory. If they have invested in Office 365 Premium, this functionality becomes available to them."
"Users can make screenshots, and devices only need the minimal version of iOS."
"The most valuable feature is the impact analysis."
"Helps me perform changes in connected infrastructure thanks to the discovery features."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"Puppet Enterprise has reduced the time of production changes or environment changes."
"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."
"Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities."
"The versatility is great."
"Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution."
"Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications."
"The main purpose for this automation tool would be: deploying, controlling, ordering change for the system and IT Infrastructure."
"One big problem with Microsoft is that they're changing the names of the products quite often, or they're quite consistently doing so. Intune is now Endpoint administration. Constantly switching the user interface or the administrative interface makes it quite hard to keep pace. If you are on a two-week holiday and you come back and look at the same screen you have looked at for the last couple of months, it looks different, which is annoying. Changing things around all the time doesn't make it easy."
"There can be some added features, such as an improved dashboard. Any new feature that could be a benefit to our customers would be good."
"There are a few security features that are not available in Microsoft Intune, when compared to other products."
"The solution could improve its flexibility."
"Integration with Mac devices requires some improvement."
"There should be more focus on mobile device security and integration."
"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's only good for a Microsoft environment."
"The native UI should be simplified because it is outdated and a little bit over-complicated."
"Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it."
"It's a bit of a pain point to make sure that everything works once we've upgraded it because Puppet has been evolving pretty fast."
"We would like Puppet to add more integration for applications."
"The solution has really complex code, you have to understand the Ruby language. However, once you know the code then you can move ahead without any problems."
"Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure."
"There's a lot of scope for enhancement on the DevSecOps side. They should definitely include features for compliance, for both the Linux and Windows side of the devices, as well as for network devices. Compliance is something they need to work on."
"At the beginning the initial setup was kind of complex."
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Earn 20 points
OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is ranked 20th in Configuration Management while Puppet Enterprise doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Configuration Management with 12 reviews. OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is rated 8.0, while Puppet Enterprise is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management writes "It allows us to deploy applications and primitive desktops globally. The upgrade cycle is very long". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager and Quest KACE Systems Management, whereas Puppet Enterprise is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud.
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