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"The solution is easy to use and it has good performance."
"Mobile device management is most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Intune is the central dashboard for compliance and policy management."
"I can see that the patch management process is much improved with the bundled patch management option available in Microsoft Intune compared to the KPI deployment required by the other deployment solutions."
"It helps implement conditional access policies to restrict mobile users from accessing potentially dangerous emails."
"Remote Wipe and Autopilot is one of the best features."
"The reporting and analytics features in Microsoft Intune have been a lifesaver."
"Fortunately, now everything is streamlined into a single, unified platform."
"Puppet Enterprise has reduced the time of production changes or environment changes."
"The main purpose for this automation tool would be: deploying, controlling, ordering change for the system and IT Infrastructure."
"Anything that we manage through Puppet always runs perfectly."
"The most valuable features are the agent, high load balancing, and overall robustness and features."
"The versatility is great."
"Puppet3 and 4 series provides optimum deployment solutions for infrastructure and applications."
"Puppet Enterprise has good functionalities."
"Puppet Enterprise is a stable solution."
"Feature-wise, the solution is a good open-source software offering broad support. Also, it's reliable."
"It has an easy-to-use interface. It is REST API driven, and it integrates with Active Directory. It provides the ability to grant permissions to other users who would not necessarily have those permissions via the GUI so that they could run other people's jobs. For example, you could have the Oracle team grant permissions to the Linux team so that they can use each of those playbooks or each other's code. It is called shift-left."
"The solution is very simple to use."
"Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner."
"One of the most valuable features is automation. We are doing automation infrastructure, which allows us to automate regular tasks. This solution provides us with a service catalog, like building new services and automating daily tasks."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation."
"The most useful features are the playbooks. We can develop our playbooks and simplify them doing something like a cross platform."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"It needs certificate provisioning for S/MIME purposes."
"There is room for improvement in integration and security as well."
"The UI also needs improvements because it is complex for end-users. We have had feedback from a few users in our organization who found the UI is not feasible for tracking and analyzing all the processes and monitoring all the devices."
"The security features should be improved."
"In future releases, I would like to see better integration with Apple products."
"Intune should be much more granular in terms of supporting more Android cellular devices."
"The main disadvantage seen today is regarding Linux clients. We have a lot of development resources that have Linux on their clients, and we can't manage them on the same platform, as we do with other clients such as macOS and Windows. So, it should have support for Linux clients. It should also have better support for macOS."
"They could also make it easier to use because there are some other products that may be easier to use in terms of the look and feel of the dashboard."
"Puppet Enterprise is more complex and difficult to configure."
"There's a lot of scope for enhancement on the DevSecOps side. They should definitely include features for compliance, for both the Linux and Windows side of the devices, as well as for network devices. Compliance is something they need to work on."
"Puppet Enterprise should improve the general extensibility for places where they can't install it."
"It's a bit of a pain point to make sure that everything works once we've upgraded it because Puppet has been evolving pretty fast."
"We would like Puppet to add more integration for applications."
"At the beginning the initial setup was kind of complex."
"The solution has really complex code, you have to understand the Ruby language. However, once you know the code then you can move ahead without any problems."
"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."
"Because Ansible is establishing SSH sessions to perform tasks, there is a limit on scalability."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"There are some options not available in the community edition of the solution."
"The area which I feel can be improved is the custom modules. For example, there are something like 106 official modules available in the Ansible library. A year ago, that number was somewhere around 58. While Ansible is improving day by day, this can be improved more. For instance, when you need to configure in the cloud, you need to write up a module for that."
"Accessibility. Ansible uses a CLI by default. Those accustomed to it can find their way and adopt the YAML files easily over time. But, some users are more comfortable using UIs..."
"It is a little slow on the network side because every time you call a module, it's initiating an SSH or an API call to a network device, and it just slows things down."
"There needs to be improvement in the orchestration."
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Puppet Enterprise doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Configuration Management with 12 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 62 reviews. Puppet Enterprise is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Puppet Enterprise writes "A set-it-and-forget-it management solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Makes it easy to build playbooks and saves time and resources". Puppet Enterprise is most compared with AWS Systems Manager, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, BigFix and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, 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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