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Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"It's easy to manage."
"I can reach devices or computers over the internet. I don't need to worry about the network connectivity between the offices. I can manage any device. That is the most important part."
"The Microsoft Windows Autopilot and Defender policies are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Technical support, in general, has been quite helpful."
"The most valuable features are the ones that make sure that the deployment is of a standard operating system and the Zero Touch deployment, which is very useful. This allows users to have an out of box experience."
"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."
"The most valuable feature is the impact analysis."
"Helps me perform changes in connected infrastructure thanks to the discovery features."
"Ansible Tower offers use a UI where we can see all the pushes that have gone into the server."
"RBAC is great around Organizations and I can use that backend as our lab. Ingesting stuff into the JSON logs, into any sort of logging collector; it works with Splunk and there are other collectors as well. It supports Sumo and that helps, I can go create reports in Sumo Logic. Workflows are an interesting feature. I can collect a lot of templates and create a workflow out of them."
"It is quick to production. It has an API in the back which allows for integrations."
"There are so many models that I don't have to create one."
"It does not require staff for deployment and maintenance. It just works."
"Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The user interface is well-built and very easy to navigate around."
"There can be delays in the deployment of new policies."
"There are items that require improvements. One is the controls from iOS."
"Some enrollment features could be improved."
"It would be great if Intune offered better data protection controls for BYOD Windows PCs."
"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."
"The feature that allows us to import the business application from the configuration manager to Intune is not very good at this time."
"The configuration could be better by consolidating options and making it simpler."
"The reporting needs to be a bit more interactive."
"The native UI should be simplified because it is outdated and a little bit over-complicated."
"Some of the Cisco modules could be expanded, which would be great, along with not having to do so much coding in the background to make it work."
"I have seen indications that the documentation needs improvement. They are providing a "How to Improve Your Documentation" presentation at this conference."
"There could be more stuff in the workflows. I hope that if I have ten templates with different services on it, workflow could auto-populate all the template-based services."
"The job workflow needs to be worked on. It's not really clear to how you actually link things together. What they probably could do is provide an example workflow on how to stitch things together. I think that would be very helpful."
"It would be helpful to have templates for common configurations. It would make it much easier and faster rather than creating a whole script. The templates would decrease the learning curve as well."
"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."
"When you set up Playbooks, I may have one version of the Playbook, but another member of the team may have a different vision, and we will not know which version is correct. We want to have one central repository for managing the different versions of Playbooks, so we can have better collaboration among team members. This is our use case for using Git version control."
"For Ansible Tower, there are three tiers with ten nodes. I would like them to expand those ten nodes to 20, because ten nodes is not enough to test on."
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OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is ranked 21st in Configuration Management while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. 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 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Quest KACE Systems Management and BigFix, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BMC TrueSight Server Automation.
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