IBM MaaS360 vs. Jamf Now

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM MaaS360
Score 8.5 out of 10
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IBM MaaS360 is a mobile security offering developed by Fiberlink, acquired and owned by IBM since early 2014.
$4
Per Client
Jamf Now
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Jamf Now, formerly Bushel, is a cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution for iPads, iPhones, and Macs in the workplace. According to the vendor, Jamf Now makes device management accessible and affordable for everyone, so businesses can support their users without help from IT. Jamf Now helps configure settings on all Apple devices quickly and consistently over the air and allows users to manage their devices by centrally deploying apps anytime from anywhere. Jamf Now can be…N/A
Pricing
IBM MaaS360Jamf Now
Editions & Modules
Essentials
USD 4.00
Per Client
Deluxe
USD 5.00
Per Client
Premier
USD 6.25
Per Client
Enterprise
USD 9.00
Per Client
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM MaaS360Jamf Now
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details$2 per month per Mac or iOS device. First 3 devices are free. Price per month per device, billed monthly. No minimum. Cancel at any time; no questions asked. As your needs change, add or remove devices. We bill you based on current number of managed devices.
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Community Pulse
IBM MaaS360Jamf Now
Considered Both Products
IBM MaaS360
Chose IBM MaaS360
IBM MaaS360 is simpler to use overall. The only 2 things that Meraki clearly does better than IBM MaaS360 is the "tagging" functionality for devices which is very convenient for pushing an app or policy to a subset of devices quickly. The other thing is certificate …
Chose IBM MaaS360
Cost wise IBM MaaS360 is bit on the expensive end but at the end is more stable and is able to be managed by lower administrative costs.
Chose IBM MaaS360
There are various reasons when evaluating different products and selecting a single product
It involves pricing
It involves compatibility of the solutions with the products
Chose IBM MaaS360
Well, for not sure in production performance, but as we just trialed the product hence not explored much about it but may be in the future.
Chose IBM MaaS360
Asset management is the most valuable and essential feature of device inventory. The product's key strengths include security for email, browsers, and applications, encompassing mobile devices and laptops within a single package. Its prime feature is managing mobile phones, …
Chose IBM MaaS360
IBM Security MaaS360 enables our employees to securely access corporate resources and collaborate from anywhere, on any device, this has improved workforce productivity and efficiency, especially for remote or mobile workforce. It's a cost effective through streamlining device …
Chose IBM MaaS360
IBM Security MaaS360 is an excellent MDM that is hosted in the cloud. Security policies are highly customizable. Works with all mobile operating systems. IBM Security MaaS360 is capable of providing mobile management for most types of devices. Security profile templates can be …
Chose IBM MaaS360
It places a strong emphasis on security, with features like threat detection and remediation, encryption, and policy enforcement.
Chose IBM MaaS360
they are both the same however the response times are the difference maker. Maas360 response time is about 1-4 minutes while intune is about 20 secs to a minute. response times are huge in our department with everything to get this out in a timely matter to get devices to our …
Chose IBM MaaS360
Setting up Intune is far easier, but as a management product, MaaS360 works better. If your looking at keeping your eggs in one Microsoft basket, Intune is the better option, but for those not bothered about multiple vendors, MaaS360 is the better option.
Chose IBM MaaS360
IBM MaaS360 is a powerful tool, and it is capable of providing mobile device management for most types of devices, including Windows computers, Apple computers, Windows phones, Android phones, and Apple phones. Security profile templates can be set up per device type or per …
Chose IBM MaaS360
When stacked against competition it was easy to implement and the best part was we were able to integrate with all our devices.
Chose IBM MaaS360
Maas 360 is the Cadillac of management software. Jamf was considered but I found it not quite as encompassing as Maas360. The ability too direct specific software programs and exclude all others was eventually what sent us to Maas360. Again, The time and effort to configure …
Chose IBM MaaS360
Ease of use and management of mobile devices are easier and has protection against the Cyber threats. The security controls implementation on our devices are perfect and in one place. I love the responsiveness and prosctivenes of the support. Seamless integration with all …
Chose IBM MaaS360
IBM Security MaaS360 is a robust and effective platform that offers a high level of protection against cyber threats.
Chose IBM MaaS360
As a user, IBM Security MaaS360 with Watson offers a range of feature which are used to secure mobile devices. These features are: mobile security, device management, app management and mobile content management. By ability to set limits on data usage and cost, it has helped us …
Chose IBM MaaS360
IBM Security MaaS360 with Watson is the main MDM worth buying for dealing with a corporate MDM, it gets a better than expected rating only for the rule that it's the main utilitarian help.
Chose IBM MaaS360
We all know the big guys are VMWare WorkSpace 1, SOTI, Mobile Iron, and Intune. There are hundreds of other MDM solutions apart from the latter. While most solutions are very comparable in functionality AND all share the same technology in order to function, the real …
Chose IBM MaaS360
It price was more economical compared to it's competitors.
Also It had amazing features that were so easy to work with.
Chose IBM MaaS360
It provides Administrator capabilities for granting access to corporate applications or data on Mobile devices and securely monitoring and managing mobile devices that have sensitive business data. It stores essential information about mobile device so admin can decide which …
Chose IBM MaaS360
I believe MaaS360 has many more policy based choices than Meraki when it comes to Apple mobile device management. The MaaS360 suite seemed better suited for our SMB needs. However Meraki is also a decent MDM and is professionally built for enterprise use. In the end we chose …
Chose IBM MaaS360
Apple tends to recommend Jamf for mobile device management. We chose to use IBM MaaS360 since it can be bundled with our cell carrier's contract. This gives us a lower cost product that delivers the features we needed out of this type of service. Additionally, our carrier is …
Jamf Now
Chose Jamf Now
Jamf Now understands Apple devices better because it's designed to manage them. While Intune offers Apple device management, it can be finicky and hard to get details about the device. It really only sits under our umbrella with Intune, but with Jamf Now, we can have much more …
Chose Jamf Now
Jamf was easier to get started and set up, unfortunately since I also have a number of Android Tablets, I had to get IBM MaaS360 to manage them. I also prefer not having to pay for the whole year in advance for the tables as I have been working for about 3 months to get the …
Chose Jamf Now
This is a directory as a service and doesn't really manage devices like Jamf. But it is more expensive and is more into managing users and devices. Liked it. But for cost and ease of use Jamf definitely wins this one. Also JumpCloud is better suited in my opinion to Windows and …
Chose Jamf Now
Airwatch seemed like it was years behind Jamf's easy to use dashboard interface. The Google Mobile/MDM tools were confusing to set up and weren't very friendly, as Google doesn't want to play nice with Apple's ecosystem and the Google options were lacking. MDM is a very …
Chose Jamf Now
Ease of use, price point, support, features - are all the reasons why we chose Jamf Now.
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User Ratings
IBM MaaS360Jamf Now
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.6
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Usability
9.4
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8.0
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
8.2
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Support Rating
9.0
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8.9
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Online Training
9.1
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Implementation Rating
8.0
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Configurability
9.1
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Ease of integration
8.8
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Product Scalability
9.1
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Vendor post-sale
9.1
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User Testimonials
IBM MaaS360Jamf Now
Likelihood to Recommend
Enrolling bulk devices through the Device Enrollment Program (DEP) is simple, straightforward, and quick. Multiple methods for device enrollment are available, including barcode scanning, email, and manual entry via the platform. App synchronization between Apple Business Manager (ABM) and the MaaS360 platform occurs swiftly. Additionally, app distribution and removal are efficiently managed on the platform.
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Anywhere with under 100 Apple devices, I would recommend this service. It was always so simple to add a device you recently purchased to your inventory and be able to check in on it anytime. If they had more than 100, I would recommend Jamf Pro, the enterprise version of this software.
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Pros
  • It's a robust and intuitive UEM that it is very easy to use and Install.
  • It's easy to protect our data and information on every device.
  • Increase mobile security and threat management. Hence improves our cyber security.
  • Seamless integration with all our security system to boost our security on all our devices.
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  • Centralized inventory tracking.
  • The ability to push apps to devices.
  • Enhanced security by way of specific policies.
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Cons
  • After attempts to reset a passcode sometimes a phone will become disabled. When a phones IOS is locked their is no way to successfully send a passcode without wiping the phone
  • Need an easier way to change the email if you create it wrong and the phone is already deployed. Sometimes the selective wipe does not always work as it should.
  • Too many alerts.
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  • UI can feel a bit messy to some
  • Not great for a mix environment (Windows + Apple)
  • Kind of a steep learning curve
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Likelihood to Renew
Rock solid solution with highly accessible support when needed. We do not want to interact with MaaS360 on a daily basis but when an issue occurs we are always able to find resolution due to the various support resources we have access to
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Usability
Having years of experience with MDM and experiencing the evolution of the granularity of the functionality MDM's have had to evolve, no MDM is ever "easy" to use. MaaS360 rises to the top however, because zero day changes are always ahead of the competition. A huge benefit with MaaS360 and IBM's approach to supporting these changes is that they seldom change configuration work flows. Competing Vendors always arbitrarily change workflows which requires a significnat ongoing learning curve in order to maintain technical competence
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Working in an environment with just macOS devices, Jamf Now is a great option. With Jamf Now, you get details with configurations that get down to the fine details of each device. Without Jamf Now, it would be a much bigger headache managing our Apple devices. Overall, this application makes our jobs much easier.
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Reliability and Availability
Never had an outage in 11 years of using this solution
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Performance
typically very consistent but occasionaly some lag
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Support Rating
MaaS360's phone support has been decent the few times I have used it. In addition the person who on-boarded us has been available for additional questions after the process was over. However IBM could do a much better job in creating a user-friendly search engine and white-paper database to help people find topics. Right now finding info is more based on searching through white papers themselves.
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No body is perfect and occasionally, but rare, it take a little bit to get a reply on the chat, but overall as compared to other chat sessions it is pretty responsive and fairly quick. They allow you to upload a screen shot if that helps and to reply with solutions via email so I have it as a reference in writing for future problems.
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Online Training
The resources made available to me by IBM were Stellar. These resources remain available today and are extremely important as technology changes
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Implementation Rating
To implement IBM Security MaaS360 with Watson, follow these steps: Set up the platform, enroll devices, configure policies and settings, monitor and manage devices. Implementing it can help organizations to securely manage and monitor the use of mobile devices and related resources in their networks, improving security and productivity for their users.
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Alternatives Considered
Intune claims to be free, but if you need certain features you actually have to pay for it. So the "free" claim does not fly. In addition, pushing policies can take hours with Intune. In comparison with IBM MaaS360, where policies are changed within minutes. The usability and versatility of IBM MaaS360 is no match for Intune
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Jamf was easier to get started and set up, unfortunately since I also have a number of Android Tablets, I had to get IBM MaaS360 to manage them. I also prefer not having to pay for the whole year in advance for the tables as I have been working for about 3 months to get the Android tablets set up with MaaS360 but had to pay for all of them in advance and only have about half of them set up. Our Android tablets are in trucks on the road as part of their ELD's so I can only catch one when that truck is in for maintenance, but I still had to pay for the year in advance. Jamf makes it very nice as I just pay as I add a unit to the system.
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Scalability
Rock solid, consistent solution
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Return on Investment
  • MaaS360 has helped reduce the costs associated with managing and securing mobile services, like the cost of IT support and the cost of replacing lost devices.
  • MaaS360 has helped our remote sales team make sure they always have the latest information hence reducing any miscommunication with the customer.
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  • One IT employee is able to manage 30 devices with ease.
  • The price that we pay for Jamf Now is very reasonable, especially for the time it saves.
  • IT can now concentrate on other tasks that time could be better spent on.
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ScreenShots

IBM MaaS360 Screenshots

Screenshot of the SaaS portal & dashboard for UEM administratorsScreenshot of where secure user access to corporate email, contacts, calendar, apps and docs can be configuredScreenshot of a view of hardware inventory, where administrators can take action across all device types

Jamf Now Screenshots

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