We performed a comparison between OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management and Red Hat Satellite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."The security-related tools are excellent; these features allow us to secure devices, lock them down, and ensure compliance."
"It's easy to manage."
"It is a helpful tool to manage BYOD policies."
"The device profiling which uses the official Outlook email enabled us to control the screenshot feature and prevent copying outside of the organization's application."
"It is a very helpful solution."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"I like the group policy management feature, which performs application monitoring and device enrollment."
"The most valuable feature is the impact analysis."
"Helps me perform changes in connected infrastructure thanks to the discovery features."
"Fixing is the most valuable. When you deal with a lot of hardware and software and you have a lot of packages, fixing is a bit difficult. You need to track and pull up all such things, but Satellite makes this task easy. We have branches in other locations, and I can manage other branches by using Satellite Capsule, which is a great feature."
"The 'remote execution' feature further helps manage systems on a consistent basis."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vulnerability management."
"I like the integration with other tools."
"It cuts down significantly on the administrative time it takes to patch systems in a large environment."
"Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups."
"The compliance auditing helped me a lot."
"It plays a significant role in managing the lifecycle of our systems and ensures that we can effectively control and update the software versions to align with our organization's needs."
"There are a couple of issues with stability."
"The security features should be improved."
"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."
"The closest Microsoft Intune can be to GPOs, the better. There needs to be more granularity on application deployments. However, they have done better recently with the application deployments."
"Microsoft Intune's support for Mac devices is lacking and could be improved."
"I think that there is room for improvement with the reporting. If this is done, it will be a better product."
"Areas for improvement in Intune include expanding support beyond Samsung devices to accommodate other Android manufacturers like Redmi and Motorola."
"The scalability could be improved, and like most other MDM products, Intune is good but not 100% there yet."
"The native UI should be simplified because it is outdated and a little bit over-complicated."
"The documentation could be better."
"I would like to see the scalability, user interface, and reporting features improved and for the solution to be simplified. Instead of having complex engineering, it should be simple for the user."
"It wasn't easy in the beginning, and some effort was required to work it out. I already had the product documentation, but it was not well organized. It wasn't easy to follow. There were a lot of documents here and there."
"The solution's initial setup is a little bit tricky."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. The licensing is a bit expensive."
"It has not been significantly updated in a while."
"Red Hat Satellite's pricing needs improvement."
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OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is ranked 20th in Configuration Management while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 21 reviews. OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Satellite 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 Red Hat Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager and Quest KACE Systems Management, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, AWS Systems Manager and Chef.
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