We performed a comparison between BigFix and SaltStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The biggest benefits of Intune are the ability to push changes and the added security. When we moved forward with Defender, we onboarded all those machines automatically. That helps dramatically. For a while, we were left with machines that weren't protected. We could see where people had done things they shouldn't have done, and Defender saved our skins a few times. It didn't happen a lot, but it happened enough that it made us glad we made that decision."
"I like how Microsoft Intune lets me lock down the email profile and make it accessible only on certain devices."
"While I don't think you can ever have full visibility and control, Intune certainly allows us to see the applications being used and tells us if things like Windows patches aren't applied to machines. It does a good job. That visibility makes life a little easier."
"The central administration con dashboard is very easy to use and provides very good oversight on all that needs to be monitored."
"The reporting and analytics features in Microsoft Intune have been a lifesaver."
"This product works very well for companies already using the full Microsoft suite."
"The policy and compliance monitoring of devices and the software deployment are most valuable."
"It is a very helpful solution."
"This has very much improved our organization by saving time to deploy thousands of endpoints to our customers."
"DOWNLOADING-PATCHES; It has also helped to reduce network traffic when it comes to downloading patches. By only having to download the patch once to the central location and then utilizing the relay structure to then download the patch to a specific site and then everything gathering at local, it greatly reduces the bandwidth of multiple endpoints."
"Desktop patching is the most valuable feature, because with servers, we have complete control over them, and we can simply push patches to the servers."
"BigFix is a great product. The flexibility of putting together your own relevance and retrieving custom data from any one of your agents is a valuable feature. It is one of my favorite features because if a boss asks me, "How many of these devices do we have?", I can put together a report in two seconds."
"The product is less costly when compared to other solutions, and this is a good solid solution for what we have paid."
"It has plugins development options, which are great."
"The most valuable features of the solution are Windows patching and the hardware and software inventory."
"We've had no issues with stability."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"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."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"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."
"A new Intune feature allows application packaging, but it incurs additional licensing costs for a significant number of applications."
"The technical support could be improved."
"Reporting and troubleshooting for the application deployment could be better. It's very difficult to understand."
"Lacks the ability to deploy more ways of management, managing devices and processing the policies."
"An issue we have run into with Microsoft Endpoint Manager is that we cannot patch third-party products like Adobe and Chrome with it."
"It would really be helpful to have the option to manage server operating systems as well, like Windows Server, at least. That way, we could scrap the use of SCCM, which requires a lot of on-premises infrastructure."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"It would be great if Intune offered better data protection controls for BYOD Windows PCs."
"The reporting and dashboard parts have room for improvement."
"BigFix is actually a little bit on the expensive side in Turkey because of the dollar's exchange rate in our currency."
"We would like to see a different license plan, e.g. to include features from lifecycle with Patch Management, as an example."
"I'd definitely like to see additional feature parody in the web UI versus the console. There are certain things that you can only do in the console and they're very cumbersome to do, like secure parameters, for example. That's definitely something that has a wide degree of utility but it needs to be easier to surface. At this particular juncture between the transition, between the legacy console and the web UI, it's hard to justify dealing with the cumbersome aspects of the legacy console when theoretically everything's been through the web UI."
"I'd like to see better integration, with the different applications within BigFix. Instead of sometimes feeling like four or five different applications, they need to be integrated a little better within themselves."
"We're a partner, so we deliver technical support to customers. When we need to talk to the product support, traditionally, with the product over the last five years, I would not say support has been supportive. I hope that changes."
"Its pricing should be improved. It is too costly."
"I would like to see the integration of user security between the different products to be improved. There's separate security for compliance, separate security for web reports, and the console, and you have to manage those things separately."
"Web UI."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"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."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"It is difficult to set up."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
BigFix is ranked 5th in Configuration Management with 91 reviews while SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews. BigFix is rated 8.6, while SaltStack is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SaltStack writes "Orchestration tool that powers automation of processes with the click of a button". BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Tanium and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus, whereas SaltStack is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, HashiCorp Terraform, Red Hat Satellite and ServiceNow. See our BigFix vs. SaltStack report.
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