We performed a comparison between SaltStack and SkyKick Cloud Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."The most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune is having all our devices compliant with our policies."
"Autopilot is a great feature. Most users are looking for a zero-touch deployment."
"The solution is easy to use and it has good performance."
"I like the group policy management feature, which performs application monitoring and device enrollment."
"I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."
"The mobile application management, MAM, is the most useful aspect of the solution."
"There has been a noticeable increase in productivity for both my organization and clients."
"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."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this."
"The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"Technical support has been good."
"Intune's reporting and logging could be improved. When troubleshooting, it's difficult to collect the logs and determine what's happening. If I want to filter out the compliant devices, I can see it from the logs, but I would like the option to drill down further."
"They need to integrate more with security options."
"The product needs to upgrade itself when the server is overloaded."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"In the past, I raised some tickets for the enhancement feature, which was missing in Intune."
"Microsoft Intune's support for Mac devices is lacking and could be improved."
"Cost is the biggest factor for us right now. Microsoft Intune and AD P1 together in a bundle is a good thing to have, but it is very costly compared to other products in the market. Otherwise, Microsoft Intune is the best."
"Intune has some limitations when it comes to application updates for third-party applications. You can schedule an update, but when it's a package setup, you need to supercede and replace it each time."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"Web UI."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
"It is difficult to set up."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"I'm fairly new to the solution and need to explore it further."
SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews while SkyKick Cloud Manager is ranked 30th in Cloud Management with 1 review. SaltStack is rated 8.2, while SkyKick Cloud Manager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SaltStack writes "Orchestration tool that powers automation of processes with the click of a button". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SkyKick Cloud Manager writes "Robust, reasonably priced, and offers good features". SaltStack is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform, Red Hat Satellite and Automic Workload Automation, whereas SkyKick Cloud Manager is most compared with CloudSphere.
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