"Market leader in the Apple device segment for good reason"

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4.0
4.0
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Product(s): Jamf Pro

Overall Comment:"Jamf Pro is extremely powerful overall. It has a wide variety of things it can manage directly from the product GUI, plus it has the capability to include shell scripts and custom XML for configuration and maintenance. We had used the on-premises product for quite some time and just recently migrated to the cloud product."

Lessons Learned

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What do you like most about the product or service?

It is an excellent central source for managing our macOS and iOS fleets (we also have some AppleTV units in classrooms that we manage with Jamf). The granularity it provides for configuring and maintaining groups of devices is very powerful. The capability to add custom shell scripts is the best feature, since if you have root access, which you essentially do from Jamf, you can do pretty much anything you need (outside of Apple's framework restrictions). It is fairly straightforward to manage large numbers of endpoints using Jamf Pro.

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What do you dislike most about the product or service?

It can be overly complicated to get certain things done with configuration profiles. The Sites feature initially appears attractive, but actually using it creates a lot of extra work and we ended up with a fair amount of technical debt that we needed to clean up in the move to the cloud service. Learning the API for ad hoc automation and connections to external systems require a fair amount of time and practice.

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Please explain the business problems or needs that prompted the purchase of this product or service.

We needed a central "pane of class" for Apple device (predominantly macOS and iOS/iPadOS) management and configuration control, as well as a platform for automated builds, moving toward a "zero-touch" drop ship model.

Evaluation & Contracting

5.0
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Why did you purchase this product or service?

  • Other...
  • Create internal/operational efficiencies
  • Improve compliance & risk management
  • Enhance decision making
  • Improve business process outcomes
  • Improve business process agility
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Managing security profile
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What were the key factors that drove your decision?

  • Product roadmap and future vision
  • Strong services expertise
  • Other...
  • Strong consulting partnership
  • Product functionality and performance
  • Overall cost
  • Strong customer focus
  • Financial/organizational viability
  • Strong user community
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Market leader in this segment
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Which other vendors did you consider in your evaluation?

  • Mosyle
  • Addigy
  • Microsoft
  • Kandji
  • FileWave
  • Tanium
  • Fleet

Integration & Deployment

5.0
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Version number(s) currently in use in your organization

11.21.1
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How extensively is this product or service being used in your organization?

Company-wide
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When was this product or service deployed at your organization?

2015
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How long did your deployment take?

0 - 3 months (<3)
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What was your implementation strategy?

Worked with both the vendor and 3rd-party service providers

Service & Support

4.0

Product Capabilities

5.0

Additional Context

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Deployment architecture

Cloud (SaaS or PaaS or IaaS)
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In which country(s) did your deployment take place?

United States
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How long have you used this product or service?

5 years to less than 10 years