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."For Windows services, there are multiple options within Intune to modernize it to be more internet-facing and dynamic."
"This product works very well for companies already using the full Microsoft suite."
"The best feature is that we don't need to worry about downtime. We don't need to worry about the network connections of our office or the virtual private network. Everything is being done through the internet. Using Intune Autopilot, we can configure and deploy everything to the devices."
"Among the most valuable features are the Company Portal that is built into Intune, and the update rings so that we can manage what types of future updates the devices get."
"The solution is easy to use and it has good performance."
"It's easy to manage and easy to configure."
"This product offers an alternative solution to other UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) solutions."
"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"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"
"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."
"The solution's ability to scale is good."
"Has a variety of automation options."
"With AWS Systems Manager, our company can patch our systems directly from it, so we don't need to patch our systems manually."
"Its ticketing is pretty good."
"Integration with Mac devices requires some improvement."
"In the next release, I would like a feature to be able to properly lock down the device. For example, if an attacker or somebody steals the phone, you can be sure that the pin cannot be broken."
"Microsoft Intune needs to improve the initial login process."
"When somebody has a customized application or their own company's application, we cannot deploy that application."
"Integrating certain group policies can be challenging and may necessitate using on-premises systems to integrate them with Microsoft Intune."
"There is room for improvement in integrating additional features such as Purview and SharePoint activities into Intune."
"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."
"The current Intune reporting functionality could benefit from some improvements."
"The fact that AWS Systems Manager takes time to complete the patching process, makes it an area where improvements are required."
"Additional features can be added as per customer requirements."
"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."
"Lacks sufficient integrations."
"The current challenge is that we can't pull any incidents from other accounts."
"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 6 reviews while Kace Systems Deployment Appliance is ranked 28th in Configuration Management. AWS Systems Manager is rated 8.2, 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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