PDQ Deploy & Inventory vs. Red Hat Satellite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PDQ Deploy & Inventory
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
PDQ.com headquartered in Salt Lake City offers PDQ Deploy, a software deployment tool used to keep Windows PCs up-to-date without bothering end users.
$1,575
per year per user
Red Hat Satellite
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Red Hat® Satellite is an infrastructure management product specifically designed to keep Red Hat Enterprise Linux® environments and other Red Hat infrastructure running efficiently, with security, and compliant with various standards.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PDQ Deploy & InventoryRed Hat Satellite
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPDQ was built by entrepreneurs & educators. Small businesses (<50 employees), nonprofits, and schools enjoy a 15% discount.
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User Ratings
PDQ Deploy & InventoryRed Hat Satellite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
(12 ratings)
9.5
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.5
(6 ratings)
5.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
PDQ Deploy & InventoryRed Hat Satellite
Likelihood to Recommend
PDQ
PDQ Inventory is great if you have a local network of computers on or off a domain. As long as you have a way to log into them with common credentials. Great for large organizations, particularly ones interconnected with VPNs. PDQ Inventory isn't so great for PCs that aren't connected to the same LAN the server is on. (i.e. non-vpn remote users) They used to have a remote agent you could install, but it was removed after numerous issues.
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Red Hat
Red Hat Satellite works amazingly with servers that need more control over their packages. For one or two servers that you're just doing "dnf update" Red Hat Satellite is way overkill.
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Pros
PDQ
  • Push out new software
  • Push out Updates to current software
  • Push out patches and updates that we don't have other ways to push out
  • Keep end-users updated with little involvement
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Red Hat
  • Patches
  • License Management
  • Dashboards / Visibility
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Cons
PDQ
  • As good as there email support is.. would like a live operator option
  • Some updates are hard to understand when 5 versions of the same program exist
  • Thats about it, PDQ deploy is the best out there
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Red Hat
  • I woud love for it to provide the same functionality for non-RHEL OS's
  • Containerized Installation
  • Simplified workflow setup
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Likelihood to Renew
PDQ
PDQ is very useful and one of the tools that we use a lot.
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Red Hat
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Usability
PDQ
Logical - If I want to do something with the software, it is quite clear on how I need to go about that. There isn't some weird process that is proprietary to just that vendor and is counterintuitive. What I want to see is displayed with just a couple clicks.
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Red Hat
When you're first getting into the platform, the GUI can be a little confusing. It takes a little while to get accustomed to where everything is, and what everything is used for. I highly recommend prior training / classes before diving into the platform. This will ensure a better transition into the platform, and more likely to use more features of it overall due to the new knowledge gained
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Support Rating
PDQ
The built-in help menus and general ease of use render whatever systems support there might be almost irrelevant. There is stability in the system's simplicity; if you're in the position to use such a product, you're your own best friend. Simple web searches more often than not turn up the solution to any little niggles, such as what silent install switches specific applications require (a remarkably wide choice of options exist). System updates are timely and unobtrusive, installing in no time at all. Maybe I've just been lucky; if so, long may it continue!
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Red Hat
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Alternatives Considered
PDQ
This software was referred to us by an IT professional. Previously, we were installing the software with the help of remote desktop applications but it was very time consuming; it was wasting the user's time since he could not use his computer. After testing PDQ Deploy, we just never looked back.
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Red Hat
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Return on Investment
PDQ
  • Speed of deployment is very positive for new software setup, saving hours of testing and deployment locally
  • Made patching for large computer estate very efficient, another positive for staff not having to spend hours of patching individual machines
  • Works well for small team of IT's and again makes various repetitive tasks much easier
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Red Hat
  • We have been able to automate the update process to not require after-hours monitoring.
  • Centralizing updates has greatly reduced the overall time servers are down and processing their individual updates.
  • We are able to bring our own RPM packages in and stage them in the same deployment model as official Red Hat packages.
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