Apple Business Essentials

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apple Business Essentials	Score 8.3 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Apple Business Essentials is a subscription service that brings together device management, 24/7 support, and cloud storage. It enables small business to manage every iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TVs throughout the business.	$8.25 per device, per month

Pricing

Editions & Modules

Fleetsmith Managed: $8.25
per device, per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Apple Business Essentials
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Free unlimited trial for up to 10 devices Device Intelligence free for unlimited devices iOS/tvOS devices free during beta period

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Community Pulse
	Apple Business Essentials
Considered Both Products	Apple Business Essentials Verified User Technician Chose Apple Business Essentials I include Samsung Knox as a competitor in this field because you can have a similar setup with any Samsung devices purchased through a reseller as well. We have gone down this route for a few devices that have needed to be Android and the difference between the two platforms is … Incentivized Helpful? AV Andrew Vo Director of Operations Chose Apple Business Essentials Like I mentioned earlier, Fleetsmith's ease of use is better than the others that I've had experience with (e.g. Addigy, JAMF). It's intuitive and it doesn't take a long time to get the basics down. The UI is great and it takes care of most of what I need it to do. Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Ecklesdafer Director of Network Operations Chose Apple Business Essentials I have not used any other services! Incentivized Helpful? PD Philippe Dionne CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose Apple Business Essentials I haven't tried any similar products. Incentivized Helpful? DK DeMarcus Ketchum System Administrator Chose Apple Business Essentials If JAMF could configure the VPN we would have stayed. Helpful? JW Jeff Wimer Information Technology Manager Chose Apple Business Essentials It is more intuitive and easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Steven Cruz IT Engineer Chose Apple Business Essentials Jamf Pro is more expensive and is not as user-friendly for organization-wide deployment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Apple Business Essentials For the sake of transparency, Fleetsmith is MUCH cheaper which is why we went with it in the first place. Helpful? BB Blake Blackshear CTO Chose Apple Business Essentials Much easier to deploy and manage. Incentivized Helpful? Barak Kaufman CEO & Co-Founder Chose Apple Business Essentials By far the most intuitive and seamless experience to get set up with pricing that scales for our organization's needs. Helpful? Nikesh Ashar Head of Apprenticeships Delivery Chose Apple Business Essentials I have not used any other products at this time. Incentivized Helpful? Pax Whitfield Chief Technology Officer Chose Apple Business Essentials The primary products we checked out were Mosyle, JAMF, and SimpleMDM. In the end it really came down to the simplicity of our needs and the simplicity of Fleetsmith's approach being in tight harmony. We kicked the tires, hard, for about a month and then dove all the way in. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Apple Business Essentials We have tested Cisco Meraki, but the UI is so chaotic. It is not easy to find the function at one go as we need to take time to explore the navigation. The configured device at times gives a false alert. Device enrolment is not straightforward. The licensing fees are slightly … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Apple Business Essentials Our decision was made some time ago so I don't remember all the details but we went with Fleetsmith originally on a recommendation. One major influence was the direct and no-effort integration into our G Suite account for ease of management and tying back to our organisation … Helpful? AN Alex Ng Director, Infrastructure and DevOps Chose Apple Business Essentials Figuring out how to package apps for Jamf Now was super complicated. Fleetsmith is like using an app store. Helpful? MK Mikhail Karalnik Sr. IT Engineer Chose Apple Business Essentials I view Jamf as the leader for mac. Airwatch does mac and pc. If Fleetsmith worked on PC, I think it would put it over the top. Helpful? Steve Huff Engineer Chose Apple Business Essentials Jamf seems much more dependent upon a dedicated IT staff to configure and support it; I chose Fleetsmith because to a much greater extent it “just works” out of the box. To my mind, the value proposition is that it comes as close as possible to eliminate the need for IT staff … Incentivized Helpful? James Villarrubia CTO Chose Apple Business Essentials Fleetsmith is very cost-effective and scales from startup to mid-size business much more easily. Fleetsmith can be setup by a team-member or CEO without needing engineering help, and certainly not a dedicated IT admin. Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Apple Business Essentials
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Enterprises	Cisco Meraki SM Score 9.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Apple Business Essentials
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (23 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (21 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (21 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Apple Business Essentials
Likelihood to Recommend	Apple I would recommend Apple Business Essentials manager to any organization that orders and uses iPads or iPhones on a large scale and wishes to manage them. Even if you do not intend on applying an MDM to your corporate Apple devices, it is nice for asset management and corporate application purchasing from a central location. If you do not care about any of those features, this functionality is not for you. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Apple Ease of use to manage. Some other solutions can be a little hard to navigate. Fleetsmith is intuitive. DEP Enrollment is really nice. If you are shipping a laptop out to the user you can set their password and when they turn on their computer they will have access. Adding software to be pushed out. Pretty easy to do. Incentivized AV Andrew Vo Director of Operations Read full review
Cons	Apple We were told that this was in the works and it would be implemented at the beginning of the year 2019. That has still not happened and whenever we ask about this functionality we cannot get a good answer. Management of devices that are already in the field—we were told that in order to use Fleetsmith as we would like (pushing apps to devices) we would have to get each device and set them up from a Mac. Integration with Windows. DK DeMarcus Ketchum System Administrator Read full review
Usability	Apple The installation steps are very easy and the UI for admin panel is user-friendly. Enrolment all based on Gmail accounts and the import function is there to fetch the user accounts. Navigating in Fleetsmith admin panel is simple and clean. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Apple Fantastic support. I have had a few queries on how to go about doing things in the best way and the support at Fleetsmith was always very quick to reply and with excellent advice and detail to solve the problem and lead is into our best use of their product. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Apple The primary products we checked out were Mosyle, JAMF, and SimpleMDM. In the end it really came down to the simplicity of our needs and the simplicity of Fleetsmith's approach being in tight harmony. We kicked the tires, hard, for about a month and then dove all the way in. Incentivized Pax Whitfield Chief Technology Officer Read full review
Return on Investment	Apple Lesser cost for managing device, instead of getting more manpower to do it manually. Lesser security threats (which will cause financial damage) as all devices are configured according the the company security policies, such as firewalls, media management, app security updates. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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