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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Intune
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Ranking in Configuration Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
206
Ranking in other categories
Remote Access (1st), Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) (1st), Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (1st)
Red Hat Satellite
Ranking in Configuration Management
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Aria Automation
Ranking in Configuration Management
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
168
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (1st), Network Automation (3rd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (15th), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) (5th)
 

Featured Reviews

Ted Mbugua - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 30, 2024
Helps improve visibility, control, and ease of management
Intune brings all of the endpoint and security management tools into one place. They have also integrated it with non-Microsoft operating systems, which is a huge plus. Consolidating endpoint and security management tools into a single platform offers significant benefits for our IT and security operations teams. With centralized visibility, they can gain better control over their systems, identify potential vulnerabilities, and take proactive measures to protect customer data. This enhanced oversight empowers them to address security gaps effectively and ensure a more secure environment. From the user perspective, the Intune experience is exceptional for those familiar with it. However, for those still learning the technology, it suggests that Intune is user-friendly and straightforward to comprehend. Intune offers administrators enhanced visibility, control, and ease of management. Patching and updating devices is streamlined, while end users benefit from simplified onboarding, intuitive usage, and robust security features like conditional access. Intune is essential for safeguarding data on company and BYOD devices, especially in hybrid environments. Intune significantly enhances IT productivity within our customers' organizations. Before Intune, administrators often struggled with visibility and management, particularly for mobile devices and laptops. They wasted time searching for assets and deploying numerous tools to achieve visibility and enforce management policies. Intune streamlines this process by eliminating the need for hundreds of agents. Simply implementing Intune provides the necessary visibility and management capabilities. Intune offers significant cost savings. By comparing its licensing model to third-party solutions, we can easily see the return on investment in terms of reduced business expenses. Intune can help businesses save between 35 and 45 percent. Intune simplifies vendor management by providing visibility into end-of-life dates for most hardware, especially laptops. This makes it easier for administrators to monitor the support status of both software and hardware. By tracking updates and end-of-life information from various vendors, administrators can easily view this data in a consolidated summary. Before implementing Intune, their security posture was significantly lacking, with most organizations scoring below 20 percent. However, after Intune deployment, especially for banks, compliance became a crucial factor. Intune’s recommendations on improving security scores, particularly Secure Scores, have been instrumental in boosting their ratings to between 75 and 85 percent. The consolidation has impacted licensing costs due to centralized oversight and dashboards. This raises questions about whether we should continue with the current approach or explore alternative options like Microsoft or a more standardized solution. There is a significant cost advantage to vendor consolidation and visibility.
MO
Apr 12, 2023
It's a useful product that makes updating and provisioning servers easier, but it should be bundled with an automation platform
We use Satellite to get updates directly from Red Hat because our servers are not connected to the internet, so we get all the updates through Satellite using a central repository. We use the solution regularly when we update or reprovision servers.   Previously, we were using one server to update…
SS
Mar 18, 2024
Offers self-service functionality allows customers to provision VMs with a single click
My customers use it to build their private cloud infrastructure VMware Aria Automation improves the IT service delivery process. It can automate manual operations, but you need a development team with coding or programming skills to develop blueprints and automation workflows.  While Aria…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We can implement a MAM policy in this Intune and protect the device through mobile application development without touching it. The interface is easy to use and understand."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"A valuable feature is user enrollment, where users can enroll their devices in their organizations themselves."
"Intune saves time, and it is very easy to use. It allows us to manage applications completely."
"One of the best features is Windows Autopilot because if you change any of your devices, whatever security policies and compliance policies that applied can be easily migrated to the new devices. Windows Autopilot gives you that flexibility."
"This product works very well for companies already using the full Microsoft suite."
"The central administration con dashboard is very easy to use and provides very good oversight on all that needs to be monitored."
"I can reach devices or computers over the internet. I don't need to worry about the network connectivity between the offices. I can manage any device. That is the most important part."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Satellite are its support, simplicity, and patch management."
"Technical support has been good."
"It plays a significant role in managing the lifecycle of our systems and ensures that we can effectively control and update the software versions to align with our organization's needs."
"The 'remote execution' feature further helps manage systems on a consistent basis."
"You don't need to depend on any third party. It's a complete solution for patch and configuration management when integrated with the existing system."
"I like the integration with other tools."
"The product helps me to manage a large number of servers from one console."
"The compliance auditing helped me a lot."
"A lot of its DevOps for infrastructure capabilities improve reliability. Much effort was put in by some customers, like a large automobile manufacturer, a large telecom, and two large banks, to achieve a certain level of capabilities in this space. These DevOps for infrastructure capabilities have saved time for developers. In one use case for a large marketplace, a typical release cycle took about 80 hours and was brought down to three hours by automating deployment for developers. The quicker that deployments happen, the faster that they can do their product release cycles."
"The infrastructure has helped us to greatly increase our agility."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"quality-of-latest-release; Compared to the earlier versions, from my experience, the upgrade process is easier; for example, the compatibility checks. I also don't need to go and find out the resources that are required. It tells me in one report what the current environment is like and, if I want to go to the next level, what things I need to take care of. Based on that I can make things happen."
"It has saved us a lot of time and work. It helped us to reorganize some of our service lines, so we could be more efficient. For example, on our open system server team, we had 15 people building servers, now we have two."
"The extensibility of it and the customization of a lot of the Blueprints, that you can customize, and the community as a whole. There's a ton of community-generated Blueprints that might be (helpful) to set up a design for your automation needs, that you can use as a base and go on from there and make changes to it."
"Having an enterprise service catalog and being able to automate various parts of our infrastructure are among the most important components."
"Our customers don't have to manage HVAC and space and cooling and all of those things that they used to have to do. Today, all they have to do is provision a server and manage their users."
 

Cons

"It would be better if I could integrate it with my core group policy. I would like to have a group policy in my current environment, which has strict control, but those things are still missing. Although it has maximum compliance and security, it's not available on-premise."
"The initial setup is a little bit complex."
"The reporting needs to be a bit more interactive."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"Microsoft Intune could improve by being more user-friendly and having it geared toward device management. The graphic interface is not very good."
"The solution needs to improve reporting. Sometimes, it shows double or triple entries of the same thing, which affects the count's accuracy. Also, some applications onboarded in Microsoft Intune do not get updated. When we look for solutions online, there is often no clear answer."
"The reporting causes problems because we're trying to gather data to present to the management, but we can't get the data they request. If a user has removed an application from his device, but it won't report it at exactly the right time. It takes time to sync from the device to the portal. Let's say we are preparing a list or deck for the number of compliant devices that meet all of the organization's requirements. In a real-time scenario, that device could be compliant, but it is showing as non-compliant on the portal. It sometimes hampers the overall decisions that we make on our end."
"There are some issues using the solution with macOS and iOS, and it offers limited granular control with them. Intune works better on Windows and Android."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
"It wasn't easy in the beginning, and some effort was required to work it out. I already had the product documentation, but it was not well organized. It wasn't easy to follow. There were a lot of documents here and there."
"Satellite should be bundled with Ansible Tower and the Ansible Automation platform. We face challenges from a security perspective because we have micro-segmentation in our network. For each server we provision, we have to set permissions to different ports so that the servers can communicate with Satellite. If I have a single server with Satellite and the Ansible Automation Platform, it would be easier to manage security issues instead of having two or three products on various servers."
"Regarding the product's ability to support third-party tools, Red Hat doesn't support all the layers from the open-source version of Linux."
"Red Hat Satellite's pricing needs improvement."
"Improving integration could lead to a more unified management experience for multiple operating systems within our data center."
"Red Hat Satellite has a short life cycle and we constantly need to update."
"The solution's initial setup is a little bit tricky."
"I don't find it to be user-friendly or intuitive because, in my case, when I have to deploy SAP systems, I need to jump between the vRA, the vRO, and the actual vCenter itself. I need to go back and forth to do different things... I wish they could make it just one application, just vRA, that does all that. There might be a way to do it but I haven't figured out how to do it yet."
"In terms of usability, It has had its challenges. It requires a lot of custom code to integrate into our environment. It can take a little while to get it to do what we want, takes some code instead of having built-in functionality. Part it is how we use it. It would be a lot easier to use in a greenfield scenario versus brownfield, which is the way we using it."
"The initial setup was not straightforward. It was not simple, and we had a PoC. We had VMware help us deploy it, and it took them an exorbitant amount of time."
"The solution could be lighter. As an administrator, I would like to simplify the number of services I need to deploy. They took a significant step in that direction by removing all the Windows dependencies that we had in the past, but there are still a lot of services consuming resources."
"Our primary challenge is upgrading the product to the latest version. This process requires careful communication with the vendor to mitigate risks."
"The stability is 95 percent. There are some situations where it gets a little bit clumsy. When it gets really big, when you're dealing with a very large deployment, it can be a little bit difficult, but it's better than nothing. It does a significant job, given what it's tasked to do."
"The most important thing that we missed in vRanger was the possibility to mount several images instantaneously and present it so we can run it immediately."
"In terms of additional features, I would like it to be able to poll my vCenter infrastructure more rapidly and adapt to changes quickly. It should alert me and let me know when there are broken components, as a result of underlying infrastructure changes. It needs to be more stringent."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Previously the price was $4 per month per user. Now it's $2.25 per user per month."
"For Microsoft 365 E5 clients, cost is not an issue as this product is one of the benefits."
"Microsoft Intune is moderately priced. There is a monthly license required to use the solution and it is approximately eight dollars per month."
"We have the business premium licenses for the solution."
"The price for Intune is fair."
"Microsoft Intune is a cost effective choice. It is less expensive than other products on the market."
"There is a license needed to use the solution and we are on an annual license."
"Microsoft Intune is reasonably priced for large organizations that already have Microsoft Enterprise licenses, but it is less affordable for smaller businesses."
"The product is very expensive for our customers."
"Red Hat Satellite is expensive, but if we have more than 50 or 60 VMs, we cannot do away with the solution."
"The product is expensive."
"The licensing depends on the number of servers."
"The price could be lower and more adaptive."
"Its price is good. They call it subscription, not license, and it is on a yearly basis. There is only one subscription, and that's it."
"Our customers have to pay for the product's license."
"The cost for a larger enterprise is probably almost always a boon."
"We have seen significant ROI. We used to have physical servers, it took 90 days to get a server, order it, buy it, and get it in. We have it down to 10 minutes, building a server with virtualization, and now that's too slow. So, we let the customer do it at their speed. Therefore, it is pretty much up in a couple of minutes and they have a server."
"They should provide one license for all the sub-products."
"It is pricey for what you get."
"From the customer perspective, the value was worth it."
"The solution is pretty expensive but provides good workload management."
"Customers say this solution is costlier compared to its competitors."
"The tool is expensive since it is an enterprise product."
"So much can be done with the Open Source side, and especially for smaller shops. I personally think the pricing for Enterprise is hard to justify."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
25%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Government
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager
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VMware vRealize Automation, vRA, VMware DynamicOps Cloud Suite, SaltStack
 

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Sample Customers

Mitchells and Buzzers, Callaway
Baloise Bank SoBa, ETH Zurich, Munich Airport, ING-DiBa, Produban
Rent-a-Center, Amway, Vistra Energy, Liberty Mutual
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