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Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, JAMF, VMware and others in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)."It has improve our organization through the remote management of non-domain joined devices."
"The most valuable feature is the policy CSPs."
"Intune's most valuable features are the device, compliance, and configuration policies."
"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."
"Intune can wipe devices. For example, if a disgruntled employee wants to leak the data on their company phone, Intune can terminate their access and wipe the entire device with a click."
"The ability to switch between Affinity and non-Affinity enrollment is great."
"Intune provides full visibility into all active mobile device users. If their devices are noncompliant with our security policies, I have the flexibility to update them remotely."
"The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult."
"The most important features would be instant messaging and the security that we get from the containerization."
"It was a big improvement to activate applications with one authentication. That was a big plus for the user experience."
"It does support hardware and operating system configurations from every angle."
"It keeps things secure, it can remotely wipe the container and it's fairly easy to use."
"It has allowed us to manage many different mobile device platforms, like Windows 10, Android, Apple, and BlackBerry 10, all through a single pane of glass."
"It gives us the ability to have a container and the most secure possible application."
"Every version upgrade has been straightforward."
"Whenever we have issues, people rely on the ability to check messages promptly."
"It allows us to have an updated inventory of all the devices in real-time with the ability to add personalized information."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that we can find a lost device or shut the device down and wipe it is good for HIPAA."
"The tool's most valuable features are application, distribution, and security. It helps to block user access."
"All features that we have deployed are useful. We do access office emails on our smartphones, and we have complete sync with Active Directory. Our calendar also gets synced in the MaaS360 application. We also ensure that the data from these official applications is not being misused by any of the employees. We have disabled cut, copy, paste, and all such features. It ensures that all the official data that our employees have on their smartphones is secure. Security is the paramount feature that we value in this product."
"Mobile Device Configuration with policy applying: This significantly reduces time of device configuration."
"The most valuable feature is that it's comprehensive - it covers mobile devices and laptops in one package."
"The best feature is the ability to control mobile phones, wipe and containerize the data, and keep employees' work data separate from personal data."
"My customers value the ability to control all their devices from a central point in IBM MaaS360."
"Data leak prevention can be integrated into it. Currently, it does not have data leak prevention."
"I'd like some more reporting so that I don't have to delve into PowerShell and I can pull more of the local device information such as memory, apps installed, etc. It would be nice to be able to see the apps that are present there but might not be managed. For example, if they installed 7Zip, it could report that back via an installed program or feature to see what was currently installed."
"I wanted to check if there is any provision at the Intune level to restrict certain things, such as a website, but unfortunately, that feature is available only in Microsoft Defender. Intune has web filtering capabilities, but they are only useful for protection from malicious websites, whereas we would like to be able to restrict a website. For example, YouTube is a clean website. No one would identify it as a malicious website, but if we want to stop the end-users from going to that website, we have to go for another product, such as Microsoft Defender or another third-party proxy solution. It would be great if this capability is included in Intune."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"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."
"It would be better if I could integrate it with my core group policy. I would like to have a group policy in my current environment, which has strict control, but those things are still missing. Although it has maximum compliance and security, it's not available on-premise."
"Some enrollment features could be improved."
"A new Intune feature allows application packaging, but it incurs additional licensing costs for a significant number of applications."
"From the past to the present, before mobility location, we frequently required a restart."
"One fault that BlackBerry has is its salesforce. Their direct salesforce department is changing its salespeople constantly. One client I had, over a period of about three years, went through four salespeople. That continuity is a problem, in terms of dealing with the customers."
"The newest features sometimes pop in very slowly."
"I would like to see better integration with our AD. Instead of having to use Active Directory groups, we'd like to use Active Directory attributes instead. There is a lot of overhead in managing. Whereas, if we could key on something tied to HR, or some other feed indicating who they are or what role they have, and manage them that way, that would be much preferable than having to manage people with Active Directory groups. Because, if people move roles, then we have to make sure that we move them from one Active Directory group to another, which is hands-on, a lot of overhead."
"I'd like there to be more in the core product rather than having to buy additional products. For example, being able to trace your devices after an emergency is an additional product you have to buy to do that properly."
"Second level support needs to have strong knowledge of the product."
"The installations on the device could be simpler. It is a good solution, and all the features are there. So, there isn't a lot to improve. I'm sure they already have their thought process on how to improve it."
"We cannot integrate BlackBerry Edit from BlackBerry Enterprise. BlackBerry Edit has issues when we are editing any document. We have other internal applications that we can use for documents, but we cannot edit into BlackBerry Edit. There's room for improvement with editing documents."
"IBM MaaS360 needs to have stronger points when it comes to the area of BYOD."
"It would be ideal to add support for the distribution of windows.exe applications."
"The interface is clunky and the layout is a bit outdated. Also, I don't think MaaS360 has as many features as Intune. It doesn't integrate with Office as seamlessly as Intune does, which isn't surprising, given that Intune and Office are Microsoft products."
"User interface is basic and not very intuitive."
"The user experience really isn't so good."
"IBM MaaS360 can improve the location reporter. There is a 15-minute delay and this does not allow for any usefulness."
"We had a problem with Microsoft computers. If you downloaded emails on a Microsoft Windows Surface PC, that would also require a license. The Outlook application didn't look great for us on a PC."
"IBM MaaS360’s threat management feature needs improvement. It could identify even more malicious attacks."
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BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Suite is ranked 17th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 24 reviews while IBM MaaS360 is ranked 8th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 34 reviews. BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Suite is rated 7.8, while IBM MaaS360 is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Suite writes "Helpful technical support, and performs well, but initial setup could be simplified". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM MaaS360 writes "It lets you separate work and personal data on mobile phones, but the interface is outdated and clunky". BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Suite is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, SOTI MobiControl and Ivanti Neurons for MDM, whereas IBM MaaS360 is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, SOTI MobiControl, IBM MobileFirst and Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM).
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