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    Progress Chef

    Score6.5 out of 10
    N/AChef IT infrastructure automation suites were developed by Chef Software in Seattle and acquired by Progress Software in September 2020. The Chef Enterprise Automation Stack is an integrated suite of automation technologies presented as a solution for delivering change quickly, repeatedly, and securely over every application's lifecycle. The Chef Effortless Infrastructure Suit is an integrated suite of automation technologies to codify infrastructure, security, and compliance, as well as…N/A

    TeamViewer

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATeamviewer offers secure remote access, IT support and device management on a scalable platform. It speeds up problem resolution, reduces downtime and enhances control through automation, unattended access and complete visibility of every device and location.

    $299

    per year

    Pricing
    Progress ChefTeamViewer
    Editions & Modules
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    Remote Access
    $24.90
    per month (billed annually) 1 Licensed User
    Business
    $50.90
    per month (billed annually) 1 Licensed User
    Premium
    $102.90
    per month (billed annually) 15 Licensed Users
    Corporate
    $206.90
    per month (billed annually) 30 Licensed Users
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Progress ChefTeamViewer
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Progress ChefTeamViewer
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    Progress Software
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    TeamViewer
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    354 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    417 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Progress ChefTeamViewer
    Security
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    -
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    TeamViewer
    8.8
    68 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.869 Ratings
    Remote Administration
    Comparison of Remote Administration features of Progress Chef and TeamViewer
    Feature
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    -
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    TeamViewer
    8.9
    553 Ratings
    4% above category average
    File transfer00 Ratings8.9521 Ratings
    Instant message00 Ratings8.8481 Ratings
    Access to sleeping/powered-off computers00 Ratings7.5366 Ratings
    Session record00 Ratings8.4376 Ratings
    Annotations00 Ratings8.2143 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Progress Chef and TeamViewer
    Feature
    Progress Chef
    -
    Ratings
    TeamViewer
    8.0
    48 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Third-party software integrations00 Ratings8.048 Ratings
    Remote Access
    Comparison of Remote Access features of Progress Chef and TeamViewer
    Feature
    Progress Chef
    -
    Ratings
    TeamViewer
    8.6
    81 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Attended device access00 Ratings9.180 Ratings
    Unattended device access00 Ratings8.777 Ratings
    Mobile device access00 Ratings8.071 Ratings
    Virtual device access00 Ratings8.667 Ratings
    Multiple-display support00 Ratings8.668 Ratings
    Multiple concurrent sessions00 Ratings8.470 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Progress ChefTeamViewer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (18 ratings)
    8.8
    (611 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (68 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (59 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    9.4
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    9.2
    (51 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (166 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.6
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    8.9
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    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    Progress ChefTeamViewer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Progress Software
    Chef is a fantastic tool for automating software deployments that aren't able to be containerized. It's more developer-oriented than its other competitors and thus allows you to do more with it. The Chef Infra Server software is rock-solid and has been extremely stable in our experience. I would definitely recommend its use if you're looking for an automation framework. And it also offers InSpec which is a very good tool for testing your infrastructure to ensure it deployed as intended.
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    TeamViewer
    I would definitely recommend it, and that's why I've stuck with it so long: continuous improvement. Now AI has fully embraced it to help with faster monitoring and Troubleshooting, saving me a huge amount of time and effort. Affordable to use for both personal and Professional work to assist colleagues from different workstations.
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    Pros
    Progress Software
    • Chef is great at deploying code to both small and large groups of servers.
    • We use chef to standup new servers as well as deploy updated code to existing servers and it does this very well.
    • Being able to make a change and have it push manually or automatically to any subset of servers has changed the landscape of how our IT teams operate.
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    TeamViewer
    • It is secure and eliminates the need for VPN for remote users.
    • It offers a 2FA to insure that security is strong for our system.
    • Can save time with file transfer syncs for labels, batches and other files.
    • It supports multi device and cross platform usage within our warehouse.
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    Cons
    Progress Software
    • Chef could do a better job with integration with other DevOps tools. Our company relies on Jenkins and Ansible, which took some development and convincing for plug-ins to be created/available.
    • It would be nice if kitchen didn't only have a vagrant/virtual-box prerequisite. Our company one day stop allowing virtual-box to run without special privileges, and that caused a lot of issues for people trying to do kitchen tests.
    • Chef could use more practice materials for the advanced certification badges. There was not a lot of guidance in what to study or examples of certain topics.
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    TeamViewer
    • MFA could be a lot better when connecting to the remote device. If a phone is added to security for the remote worker, then the admin cannot use Easy Access to access the device without interaction with the remote worker. Admins should have access to remote devices via other MFA methods.
    • App updates sometimes cause unstable status and computer must be restarted.
    • OS updates often require additional user interaction before completing the sign-in process, leaving TeamViewer in an incomplete startup state and preventing the Remote Worker from accessing the device. An admin then has to remote into the device using another remote desktop access tool (Apple Remote Desktop, for instance) and bypass the user interaction screens, which allows the login process to complete and TeamViewer to start up fully. It would be best if the TeamViewer Host could connect even when the OS is prompting for user interaction (e.g., clicking OK on modal dialog boxes post-update).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Progress Software
    No answers on this topic
    TeamViewer
    We need this tool in our day to day business. It is what we do all day remoting into clients devices. In this day and age we can access devices all over the world as long as we have secure internet connection. It certainly saves money in gas, and even if you are away you can help.
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    Usability
    Progress Software
    The suite of tools is very powerful. The ability to create custom modules allows for unlimited potential for managing all aspects of a system. However, there is pretty significant learning curve with the toolset. It currently takes approx 3-4 months for new engineers to feel comfortable with our implementation
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    TeamViewer
    TeamViewer is a reliable and really strong tool for accessing remote IT platforms secure and fast. We don't know any product that provide us such strong functionality to make our life as a internationally recognized MES provider with DIAMES with an international clientele so easy. We look forward for any new TeamViewer functionality that supports us even more.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Progress Software
    No answers on this topic
    TeamViewer
    TeamViewer has always been available when we needed to use it. We have not noticed any outages or periods where the software functions were unavailable.
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    Performance
    Progress Software
    It loads quick enough for basically all our systems. Because we have this for local dev environments, speed isn't really a big issue here. Yes, depending on the system, sometimes it does take a relatively long time, but it's not an issue for me. One thing that is annoying is that if I want to make a small change to a cookbook and re-run the Chef client, I can't just make the change in the cache and run it. I have to do the whole process of updating the server.
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    TeamViewer
    TeamViewer performance has always been very good. Pages load quickly and we can see what the remote engineers are doing on the computer in real time. This is very beneficial for our own technicians and engineers and helps their learning curve. Troubleshooting is much easier with TeamViewer. We have not noticed and lagging of our computers while using TeamViewer.
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    Support Rating
    Progress Software
    Support for Chef is easily available for fee or through the open source community as most the issues you will face will have been addressed through the Chef developer community forums. The documentation for Chef is moderate to great and easily readable.
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    TeamViewer
    the few times i have had to contact teamviewer support, they were very responsive and give me quick answers and seemed to understand my problems quickly and easily. I did not have to sit on the phone for hours on hold or get passed around to multiple phone support techs before finding a solution to my issues, so i would rate their support very highly.
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    In-Person Training
    Progress Software
    No answers on this topic
    TeamViewer
    As expected without any problem! Alternate in-person training is another efficient way to learn how a product works. There are many third party supporters for TeamViewer courses available that can give additional ideas how to use TeamViewer for specific functions and features as we did require in respect of our usage.
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    Online Training
    Progress Software
    No answers on this topic
    TeamViewer
    I have never used the online training either. I have watched a few informational videos that were helpful when learning how to do a specific procedure within TeamViewer and get the most out of the software by utilizing one of the many features that are available with the software. Again, 5 if for neutral.
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    Implementation Rating
    Progress Software
    No answers on this topic
    TeamViewer
    TeamViewer installation and deployment to other devices is pretty straightforward and does not require much technical know-how. This makes ease of use attractive when supporting both new and existing clients with limited technical knowledge. I think ease of use is a huge factor in getting new clients. TeamViewer handles that extremely well.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Progress Software
    We considered the three leading competitors in the field: Chef, Puppet and Ansible. Ansible is a very strong competitor and has a nice degree of flexibility in that it does not require a client install. Instead the configuration is delivered by SSH which is very simple. Puppet seems like it has fallen off the pace of the competition and lacked the strong community offered by Chef. We chose Chef because of the strong support by the company and the dynamic and deep community support.
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    TeamViewer
    TeamViewer's cost is much lower than that of other solutions, and its security is far superior to RemotePC's. TeamViewer is also a request-based remote session manager, unlike other software that allows indefinite connection time. TeamViewer's free version makes it even better for one end of the group to find support, while the other end has the paid version.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Progress Software
    The pricing seemed inline with our products in this space. Nothing out of the ordinary in contract, term, or pricing structure
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    TeamViewer
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Progress Software
    No answers on this topic
    TeamViewer
    Stay up working. Easy to connect and disconnect. easy way to transfer files to another desktop
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    Professional Services
    Progress Software
    The entire professional services team was great to work with. The curriculum was tailored to our specific use cases. The group we worked with were very responsive, listened to our feedback, was very easy to schedule and accommodate. I cannot say enough good things about our professional services experience
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    TeamViewer
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Progress Software
    • Chef is a good tool for baselining servers. It will be a good ROI when there are huge number of servers. For less number of servers maintaining a master will be an over head.
    • One good ROI will be that the Operations Team also gets into agile and DevOps methodologies. Operational teams can start writing scripts/automations to keep their infra more stable and their application stack more reliable.
    • Implementation of Chef eliminates the manual mode of doing things and everyone aligns to automation mind set. It helps in change of culture.
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    TeamViewer
    It took about 3 months.
    • Customer Support of our business has become more interactive with customers, leading to faster resolution of their problems.
    • Remotely accessing devices in our office allows employees to stay productive while working from home.
    • TeamViewer helps us to collaborate with other firms for projects we're doing.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    TeamViewer Screenshots

    Screenshot of how TeamViewer lets users connect to devices and provide remote support.Screenshot of AI, automation and remediation.Screenshot of the interface to monitor and manage devices proactively.Screenshot of some of TeamViewer's integrations.