Chef and Microsoft Intune are both robust tools for managing IT environments, each catering to different needs and strengths. Based on user feedback, Microsoft Intune has an upper hand with its comprehensive features, while Chef is preferred for its pricing and support.
Features: Chef offers configuration management, automation capabilities, and infrastructure as code. Microsoft Intune provides extensive device management, supports a wide range of platforms, and integrates well with other Microsoft services.
Room for Improvement: Chef users suggest enhancements in reporting functionalities, a better GUI, and usability improvements. Microsoft Intune requires a more straightforward setup process, improved policy management, and less complexity.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Deploying Chef is simpler for those with DevOps experience but can be challenging for newcomers. Microsoft Intune's deployment is more complex but balanced by strong customer support. Chef's customer service is well-reviewed but less critical due to easier deployment.
Pricing and ROI: Chef is praised for its affordable pricing model and quick ROI due to automation efficiencies. Microsoft Intune, while more expensive, is seen as worth the investment with its extensive features and strong integration capabilities, delivering substantial ROI over time.
If my organization has sensitive data we don't want to leak, deploying the policies can present technical challenges and potential loopholes.
Autopilot allows bulk enrollment of devices, making it easy for end users, even those without technical expertise, to use their devices immediately.
Chef, is the leader in DevOps, driving collaboration through code to automate infrastructure, security, compliance and applications. Chef provides a single path to production making it faster and safer to add value to applications and meet the demands of the customer. Deployed broadly in production by the Global 5000 and used by more than half of the Fortune 500, Chef develops 100 percent of its software as open source under the Apache 2.0 license with no restrictions on its use. Chef Enterprise Automation Stack™, a commercial distribution, is developed solely from that open source code and unifies security, compliance, infrastructure and application automation with observability. Chef provides an unequaled developer experience for the Coded Enterprise by enabling users to express infrastructure, security policies and the application lifecycle as code, modernizing development, packaging and delivery of any application to any platform. For more information, visit http://chef.io and follow @chef.
Microsoft Intune is a comprehensive cloud-based service that allows you to remotely manage mobile devices and mobile applications without worrying about the security of your organization’s data. Device and app management can be used on company-owned devices as well as personal devices.
In an increasingly mobile workforce, Microsoft Intune keeps your sensitive data safe while on the move. Microsoft Intune makes it possible for your team members to work anywhere using their mobile devices. Microsoft Intune provides both the flexibility and the control needed for securing all your data on the cloud, no matter where the device with the data is located.
Microsoft Intune Device Management Key Features
With Microsoft Intune Device Management you can:
Mobile Application Management
Mobile application management in Intune is designed to protect your organization’s data at the application level.
With Microsoft Intune Application Management you can:
As part of Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) suite, Intune integrates with Microsoft Entra ID for access control and with Azure Information Protection for data protection. It also integrates with Microsoft 365 Applications.
Reviews from Real Users
Microsoft Intune stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to secure all devices under its management and the flexibility that the solution offers its users.
A computing services manager notes, "Its security is most valuable. It gives us a way to secure devices, not only those that are steady. We do have a few tablets and other devices, and it is a way for us to secure these devices and manage them. We know they're out there and what's their status. We can manage their life cycle and verify that they're updated properly."
The head of IT engineering at a financial services company writes, "The one feature we find most useful is the Mobile Application Manager. There are two types: we have the complete MDM and the Mobile Application Manager (MAM). We don't give our users phones, it is their own personal phone, and we need to allow them to have access to the company details on their phone. We need to create a balance between their own personal data and the company data. We deploy the Mobile Application Manager for them so that we won't be able to interfere with their own personal data."
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