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

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Intune
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Ranking in Configuration Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
265
Ranking in other categories
Remote Access (1st), Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) (1st), Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (1st)
HashiCorp Terraform
Ranking in Configuration Management
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OpenText ZENworks Configura...
Ranking in Configuration Management
21st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Configuration Management category, the mindshare of Microsoft Intune is 10.3%, up from 9.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HashiCorp Terraform is 3.4%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText ZENworks Configuration Management is 1.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Configuration Management
 

Featured Reviews

Mike Sanlon - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides great visibility, helps consolidate our endpoint devices, and our vendors
Microsoft Intune has played a crucial role in enabling remote work for our facilities under our BYOD policy. It has been essential for our success. Consolidating all our endpoint security management tools into a single platform significantly improves our IT and security operations. This streamlined approach provides us with the advantage of using only one reporting stack, and it yields synergies that surpass the capabilities of individual solutions from separate vendors. Integrating Intune with other Microsoft services has streamlined authentication through single sign-on. We're now transitioning to passwordless authentication for enhanced security and convenience within our unified environment. Last week, for example, someone traveling to China had their laptop stolen. Fortunately, thanks to Intune, we were able to remotely wipe the device, protecting their data. The incident reporting and analytics tools enable us to monitor our devices' compliance status near-continuously. As licensed customs brokers subject to Department of Homeland Security inspections, this allows us to generate reports quickly and efficiently, reducing inspection time from thirty minutes to three to four minutes. Intune gives us full visibility into our devices and IT control across all platforms. This has significantly streamlined our management process. Previously, two people in our ten-person department spent their entire time monitoring platforms and fixing issues. Now, only one person devotes 75 percent of their time to these tasks. This means we're accomplishing more with fewer people and less time overall. It's great, but the issue with any platform like it is the delay between deploying something and it rolling out remotely. However, it's probably the best option available in terms of keeping us informed about what's happening outside our server room or hosting environment. Microsoft Intune has been instrumental in securing our hybrid work environment and protecting data on company-owned devices (BYOD). Before Intune, if someone lost their phone, wiping it meant erasing all their personal data - photos, documents, everything. Today, with Intune, we can selectively remove only our applications and data. This allows users to recover a lost phone and restore their personal information. Intune empowers us to be more proactive, eliminating the worry of accidentally wiping a misplaced device. Microsoft Security Signals has become an invaluable addition because it provides centralized reporting capabilities. This one-pane-of-glass view empowers us to easily communicate our security posture internally to management and externally to regulatory agencies and auditors. I'm impressed with the Intune endpoint privilege management feature. It's allowed us to reduce even the admin team's permissions significantly. Now, they typically lack access to most things, but the system elevates their privileges just in time for them to complete specific tasks and then demotes them again afterward. This least-privilege approach has been fantastic, and the built-in integration across the entire Microsoft stack is a major advantage. It saves us the hassle of purchasing and integrating a separate solution – it's simply there and works seamlessly. Implementing least privilege access through Endpoint Privilege Management has significantly improved our organization's attack surface. For example, our Microsoft Secure Score was around 60 percent before adopting the solution, and it's now up to 98 percent. This reduction in the attack surface has also enabled us to implement various remediation measures and establish context-based security. For instance, even if users enter the correct password and complete two-factor authentication, we can require additional authentication if they log in from an unfamiliar location, such as a new country or state. This multi-layered approach provides us with an enhanced sense of security. Intune has helped reduce the risk of security breaches in our organization. We had another deployment solution for Apple iOS and Mac devices. Additionally, we also managed a few Linux boxes with an unsupported management architecture. We were able to migrate all of those devices to Intune. Intune has helped consolidate vendors.
Marek Kubovic - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments
The setup for one laptop is quite easy technically. If you are sharing the environment among staff, then the setup is a bit more complicated. You need knowledge to setup under this specific condition. Once you study it, you will be able to implement correctly. The setup is rated a five out of ten.
it_user368043 - PeerSpot reviewer
It allows us to deploy applications and primitive desktops globally. The upgrade cycle is very long.
It allows us to deploy applications and primitive desktops globally We use it for managing our desktops. We have 350,000 desktops and it allows us to manage and control them relatively easily. We need product notifications made quickly in the software lifecycle, but it does so unreliably. The…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Maturity makes it a stable product."
"I like how Intune brings everything into one place. For example, you can set up conditional access to applications and devices inside Intune. I also like the segregation inside the Intune devices. You can segregate them by Windows, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Android. You can sort it by platform, so you don't need to go into the devices section."
"Fortunately, now everything is streamlined into a single, unified platform."
"I like the fact that it's integrated with the rest of the Microsoft products, so customers can manage it from their Office 365 portal or Azure portal."
"Its protection policies are most valuable. It protects mobile devices as well as individual apps. It is pretty scalable, and its documentation is also pretty good. It is also pretty straightforward to deploy."
"Intune's compliance features are valuable because they allow immediate visibility into ongoing situations."
"Previously, SCCM was used as an on-premise solution for clients, but now they are moving to Microsoft Intune as a cloud solution with better security and functions."
"These capabilities have made a significant impact in my work, providing a comprehensive view of all devices and features in a single platform."
"It allows for the abstraction of the work away from the developer into automated processes."
"One of the most valuable features is that it offers the ability to create a VPC, Virtual Private Cloud and VPN connectivity to the VPC can be automated without having to do it manually."
"With Terraform, you don't need to understand the console of your cloud providers. You only need to understand how Terraform works, and you manage your infrastructure tools in Terraform."
"The most valuable feature is the great community support."
"We frequently need to create and replicate infrastructure from various environments like dev and QA. The QA resources need to be identical to those in the dev environment. With a Terraform script, we can replicate the same 50 in the dev environment to the testing environment. This is tedious to do manually, and Terraform speeds up the process."
"This solution makes it easier to manage a multi-cloud environment and have your entire infrastructure as code."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Terraform is the custom modules."
"It is less time-consuming."
"Helps me perform changes in connected infrastructure thanks to the discovery features."
"The most valuable feature is the impact analysis."
 

Cons

"Microsoft Intune can be improved by making it even more seamless for users to download their certificates."
"It would be great to see on-premises mailboxes and for the solution to have geofencing capabilities."
"They should make it easier to order it, however, that's generally true for everything from Microsoft."
"Microsoft Intune could enhance its patch management for various devices, ensuring regular updates and tracking of device privileges."
"There can be some added features, such as an improved dashboard. Any new feature that could be a benefit to our customers would be good."
"Setting up Intune Autopilot can be a little complicated."
"The synchronization could be improved."
"Lacking in features such as Wi-Fi and network security."
"Terraform lacks in running script."
"With cloud providers always adding new resource types, there are certain resources that Terraform does not support. It would be great if it could support those resources as well."
"From a user's perspective, it would be great if a UI tool is made available in the open source version as well, but I don't think it may be introduced because of the high costs for it announced by HashiCorp in its licensed version...HashiCorp Terraform can improve backward compatibility."
"The state locking functionality can be improved. In certain situations, we have to force-unlock the state, which sometimes does not work. When that happens, we have to manually go to the state backend and remove that particular state, which is kind of a cumbersome process. It should also have more functions, more expressions, and support for more products."
"I would want to see more programmatic capabilities implemented, such as if, else, and simple to manage things in terms of how I can use some programming functions to assist us to achieve more. I would like to have programming language-relevant features, to have programming language be the primary way."
"There is always room for improvement somewhere. I don't know everything about the product."
"Some responses are very long, and some needed features take a lot of time."
"HashiCorp Terraform is an open-source tool that relies on external developers to create plugins to expand its capabilities. However, this approach can be problematic as not all plugins are created by professionals and some may have security vulnerabilities. In the case of GKE, Google has created a solid plugin, but for other services, one must search for plugins on the HashiCorp Terraform registry, which can be hit or miss, as many plugins are created by students or hobbyists, who may not continue to maintain or update them. This model of open-sourced plugins may not be the most reliable or secure way of expanding the tool's capabilities."
"The native UI should be simplified because it is outdated and a little bit over-complicated."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Microsoft Intune is expensive."
"I would rate the price a four out of ten with ten being the most expensive."
"Microsoft Intune is moderately priced. There is a monthly license required to use the solution and it is approximately eight dollars per month."
"It comes with the E5 plan. We bought the E5 plan from Microsoft."
"Intune is linked with Microsoft. We can deploy the Microsoft E365 license to users by Intune. There are different types of licenses, such as device administrator licenses, E5 licenses for device enrollment manually, and P1 and p2 licenses for device enrollment automatically. These are the licenses required for the administration."
"We work with the subscription rather than a server license. I think it's economical this way because we don't have to have a server license for that, and I think that works in our favor."
"It is not expensive."
"Intune's pricing is competitive. For example, the license of Blackberry's Enterprise Mobility Suite was costly, but Intune is affordable. It is included as an additional feature when you buy security enhancements for your organization. For example, let's say I have fifty users in my organization and all of them are using Microsoft cloud services, like Teams, Office 365, and OneDrive."
"HashiCorp Terraform is a cost-effective solution."
"I rate the price of HashiCorp Terraform a seven out of ten."
"The solution is open-source."
"Terraform is a little expensive."
"They have given it to us at a monthly cost, but it is on a yearly basis."
"The solution is fairly priced."
"HashiCorp Terraform is a free solution."
"It is an open-source product."
"This is a really good tool for the money."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
18%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Educational Organization
10%
 

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Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about HashiCorp Terraform?
The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the modules it offers.
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What needs improvement with HashiCorp Terraform?
The area for improvement is the speed at which resources become available. When a new resource is introduced in AWS o...
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Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Terraform
Micro Focus ZENworks Configuration Management, HPE CMS, HPE Configuration Management, Micro Focus Configuration Management
 

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