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    PDQ Deploy & Inventory

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/APDQ.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

    Spinnaker

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ASpinnaker is an open source continuous delivery platform with a range of cluster management and deployment management features, originally developed at Netflix.N/A
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    PDQ Deploy & InventorySpinnaker
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    PDQ Deploy & InventorySpinnaker
    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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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Octopus Deploy
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    PDQ Deploy & InventorySpinnaker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (12 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.3
    (6 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    PDQ Deploy & InventorySpinnaker
    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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    Netflix
    Spinnaker suits well for applications which are stateless and can adapt to an immutable architecture of deployment. But for applications which are stateful and cannot afford to spin up new servers for every deployment doesn't go well with Spinnaker. It can handle only deployments which are VM based and cannot support deployments to serverless architecture like AWS Lambda etc.
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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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    Netflix
    • Fast deployments.
    • Can be integrated with a good variety of other products.
    • Also provides some insights from your environment.
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    Cons
    PDQ
    • The facility to attempt re-deployment can be a bit easier to use, however, once you get used to it, it is OK.
    • The errors that it produces can be a bit cryptic, so could do with some sort of a verbose mode, when logging issues with packages being deployed.
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    Netflix
    • It does NOT support CFN based deployments
    • Windows based systems finds it difficult to onboard to Spinnaker.
    • Pipeline level access authorisation is not there.
    • Support for EBS volume encryption is probably missing.
    • Attach/detach EBS volumes during deployments is difficult.
    • No support to deploy the artifacts without re-creating the servers. Only pure immutable deployment are allowed.
    • Open-source - so good and bad!
    • Spinnaker on its own has 10 underlying micro services. Managing Spinnaker needs a focussed platform approach.
    • User authentication is easy but authorisation management is not straight forward.
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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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    Netflix
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    Usability
    PDQ
    The interface is straight forward and guides you through the process there. PDQ keeps track of the when new updates are made available writes the scripts and all l you need to do is push the button. (Mr George Jetson) Now with the download done you just sit back worry free and watch the software install in 1% of the time it would take to take care of the PC manually.
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    Netflix
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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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    Netflix
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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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    Netflix
    • Pipeline Expressiveness • Self-Service/Override • Visibility of Client Teams • Operability of Client Teams - • High-Quality Integrations (AWS, IHP, Google) • Extensibility – (Ability to add code) • The maturity of Deployment Process • Speed/Ease of Onboarding
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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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    Netflix
    • By using Spinnaker we are able to deploy new versions of our product quickly.
    • A deployment takes in average 2 minutes.
    • Our investment on Spinnaker was just time learning it.
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