We performed a comparison between IBM MaaS360 and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, JAMF, VMware and others in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)."One of the standout features of Intune is its seamless accessibility to work data, eliminating the need to be tied to an office or a desktop."
"Its protection policies are most valuable. It protects mobile devices as well as individual apps. It is pretty scalable, and its documentation is also pretty good. It is also pretty straightforward to deploy."
"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."
"It works pretty well for us."
"We have a BYOD policy, and this solution helps us manage our devices."
"Technical support, in general, has been quite helpful."
"It provides control over all mobile devices that are being connected to the corporate network."
"It has a useful device management feature."
"The implementation phase of IBM MaaS360 was pretty easy."
"The most valuable feature is that it's comprehensive - it covers mobile devices and laptops in one package."
"Asset management is the most valuable feature and integral for device inventory."
"It helped us reduce the number of support incidents by limiting users' access to device configurations."
"It is a stable solution."
"My customers value the ability to control all their devices from a central point in IBM MaaS360."
"We introduced the product as part of the SOC-2 requirement. The tool's most valuable features include keeping the operating system updated, tracking software inventory, controlling computer administrators, and the ability to wipe a computer in case of a security threat. It helps us to be compliant, and it is one of the reasons we implemented it."
"It can change policies based on geolocation or schedules."
"It is a true native solution, and we can use the cross-platform framework."
"The ability to share a platform-agnostic common core, or business logic, enables a mobile developer to write code for all targeted mobile platforms, independent of the individual developer's specialization in iOS, Android, or Windows. This helps not only during development but also enables easier maintenance of deployed apps, since bug fixes or feature additions can be often made in the platform-agnostic layer."
"Test Cloud, Calabash, SpecFlow, and Xamarin.UITest are the features which can’t be ignored because just writing code doesn’t mean your app will run flawlessly. You need to test your app on each possible device and configuration, which you can do easily."
"The solution is easy to understand and has banking integrated. The shorter development time, the bugging and as well as availability of a lot of documentation on the web. Also the native integration is easy."
"We very much like the XAML design techniques, multiple layout and pages, MVVMCross support, and portability across different platforms."
"A single line of code works with android and iOS."
"The Xamarin platform can reduce overhead significantly through code-share and reuse. The typical team size for a Xamarin project is significantly reduced compared to purely native projects."
"The most valuable features are: One language for all platforms: C#; XAML for UI in Xamarin.Forms; provides 100 percent coverage of APIs on each platform."
"Microsoft Intune needs to improve the initial login process."
"When somebody has a customized application or their own company's application, we cannot deploy that application."
"I have a lot of Apple products in my environment. It would be nice to have an improved integration of Apple products with Microsoft Intune without Jam."
"Microsoft Intune could improve by being more user-friendly and having it geared toward device management. The graphic interface is not very good."
"Once it's configured it is unobtrusive, but it does take some hands-on to configure and deploy it properly."
"Reporting in Microsoft solutions is pathetic. With Intune, I'm getting a free inventory tool, but I don't get a reporting tool. When I go to Intune, I can see one machine's entire data in terms of the hardware and the software running on it, but I cannot generate a report for all the machines in the organization. The reporting is the only feature holding back the functionality that is already there."
"I would like to see micro VPN. I like the way that some of the other providers have done something similar where, as you open that app on an end-point device, it creates a micro VPN straight into your device, which is quite a nice little feature. Also, Microsoft Intune relies heavily on its fellow products in the suite. It would be nice if Microsoft Intune could stand on its own two feet."
"The solution could be improved by the opportunity to connect third-party application databases, such as Chocolatey or another setup store, to Intune."
"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."
"The UI has room for improvement."
"It would be ideal to add support for the distribution of windows.exe applications."
"User interface is basic and not very intuitive."
"When we have MaaS360 installed on smartphones, it consumes the battery of the device at a much faster pace. This is one of the areas of improvement that I would like to highlight. We have also observed that in the contact list, a lot of duplication is happening. A single contact is duplicated three or four times, which also consumes more memory resources. If they can work on improving it for these aspects, it will have a more positive impact not only on the way the application is being consumed by the user but also on user satisfaction. A lot of new features are being deployed or rolled out by companies that are competitors of IBM MaaS360. IBM will have to ensure that all those features are on board so that we have a complete suite of features in the platform, rather than deploying multiple diverse solutions to cater to the requirements of our customers."
"It's difficult for someone like me to set up a phone that doesn't require a SIM card, like Apple's new phones."
"IBM MaaS360 can improve the location reporter. There is a 15-minute delay and this does not allow for any usefulness."
"They should allow for the building of custom reports with graphics."
"For those who use only XAML to design the UI, it would be better if there was a better XAML previewer or designer."
"The architecture in the Xamarin Platform has to improve, there are some features missing."
"The problem that I faced was that the communication, the roles, and the responsibilities, weren't defined between Microsoft and Xamarin."
"There is limited support for UX widgets."
"It is common to find a problem that you would need to develop from the start since there are no third-party components to reuse."
"The monitoring of the remote devices is not good as it should be extended along. It would be useful if the log is more integrated with the central console. I am not sure it can be accessed but it would be better."
"The worst build issue concerns are the caching process MSBuild uses to reduce the build time."
"The application platform could be improved."
IBM MaaS360 is ranked 8th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 34 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 5th in Mobile Development Platforms with 37 reviews. IBM MaaS360 is rated 7.8, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Xamarin Platform writes "It's about to be retired and replaced with an inferior product, but offers excellent cross-platform development capabilities". IBM MaaS360 is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, SOTI MobiControl, IBM MobileFirst and Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM), whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Appium, Ionic, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Mendix.
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