Jamf and extra: Apple MDM instruments for smaller companies
Jamf is probably the most well-known Apple MDM vendor, however small to midsize organizations have loads of different choices for managing Apple gadgets.
Apple’s lately introduced Business Essentials service is a strong entry level into the world of Apple gadget and person administration. But there’s a degree at which small and midsize organizations (to say nothing about massive enterprises) will outgrow the service. At — or ideally earlier than — that time, it will likely be time to analysis what different Apple gadget administration options are in the marketplace.
In this story I’ll take a look at corporations that help Apple’s MDM (cell gadget administration) platform and specializing in Apple gadget and person administration.
What precisely is MDM, and is it the one approach to handle Apple merchandise?
Let’s begin with a quick recap of what Apple MDM is and the way it operates. MDM is an open platform that Apple launched in 2010 to make administration and safety provisioning of its cell gadgets easy for enterprise environments. Apple’s MDM launch coincided with the introduction of the iPad and the iPhone 4 at a time when enterprise customers had already begun to make use of their private gadgets for work functions — with or with out IT’s involvement (the latter a phenomenon that got here to be dubbed shadow IT). MDM supplied a approach to combine these gadgets (and any company-purchased Apple gadgets together with iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TVs) in a safe method.
Somewhat counter to its normal method of working, Apple itself didn’t construct its personal MDM software program, preferring to depart that to third-party corporations that had an enterprise focus and person base. Many of these corporations merged or had been acquired, and most started to focus past simply Apple gadgets as Samsung launched its personal safety and administration product referred to as KNOX and as administration capabilities in Android got here on-line. Over time, these distributors’ MDM merchandise added much more capabilities, increasing to turn out to be enterprise mobility administration (EMM) suites and ultimately unified endpoint administration (UEM) platforms that cowl a variety of gadgets and OSes.
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