We performed a comparison between AWS Systems Manager and Kace Systems Deployment Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Microsoft, HCLTech and others in Configuration Management."It works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"The main advantage is that Intune performs its intended functions effectively."
"Its direct integration with all the other products that we have from Microsoft is valuable. We're using the E5 license, and we have a whole wealth of different products available. It just makes it easier to have everything from one provider."
"Users can make screenshots, and devices only need the minimal version of iOS."
"The most valuable includes managing everything from a single console."
"The many policies available in Microsoft Intune for managing our devices are valuable."
"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."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Autopilot."
"Has a variety of automation options."
"The solution's ability to scale is good."
"With AWS Systems Manager, our company can patch our systems directly from it, so we don't need to patch our systems manually."
"When we do the automation in the cloud, we use the SSM agent. This helps us to test our automation and documents, and monitor the cloud."
"Systems Manager has a feature where it analyzes the logs and gives us a performance overview in the form of a graph. We know when it's taking up more resources and when there are spikes, so we can predict the usability."
"The solution is user-friendly"
"AWS provides Auto Scaling groups."
"Its ticketing is pretty good."
"There is room for improvement in integration and security as well."
"We would like to see support for Chrome and/or devices for Chromebooks."
"Intune should be much more granular in terms of supporting more Android cellular devices."
"Sometimes, updating a client policy is very difficult. This needs to be improved."
"There can be more logs. I do not have any other requirements."
"I expect Microsoft Intune to have more features in the cloud because there are two major functionalities that we need to be added. This is software metering and license management. These functionalities, for now, must be on-premise. For this purpose, we have set up a SQL Server and I hope that in near future this option will be in the cloud in Microsoft Intune."
"I'm still playing around with it and haven't had any issues with the product yet, but support can definitely be improved."
"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."
"We formerly used third-party products to analyze the log, give us information, and find bottlenecks. Systems Manager could provide more tools that conduct this analysis, so we don't have to do it ourselves."
"The fact that AWS Systems Manager takes time to complete the patching process, makes it an area where improvements are required."
"AWS does not have EKS cluster backup."
"The current challenge is that we can't pull any incidents from other accounts."
"Additional features can be added as per customer requirements."
"Lacks sufficient integrations."
"The AWS UIs are not the most intuitive. Also, the usability needs room for improvement."
"I have heard feedback that the imaging is slow. It takes somewhere around an hour to image one PC."
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AWS Systems Manager is ranked 6th in Configuration Management with 7 reviews while Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is ranked 28th in Configuration Management. AWS Systems Manager is rated 8.0, while Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of AWS Systems Manager writes "Offers a variety of automation options; simplifies governance and administration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kace Systems Deployment Appliance writes "Straightforward to use with good ticketing but accessing inventory needs to be easier". AWS Systems Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite, AWS CloudFormation and BigFix, whereas Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is most compared with .
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