Apple Business Essentials vs. Cisco Secure Endpoint for iOS (Security Connector)

Apple Business Essentials

Cisco Secure Endpoint for iOS (Security Connector)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apple Business Essentials	Score 8.2 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
Cisco Secure Endpoint for iOS (Security Connector)	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	From partnership with Apple, Cisco now offers mobile device security through Cisco Secure Endpoint for iOS (formerly Security Connector), an application to provide visibility and control for iOS, and to accelerate and advance the mobile workforce. With it, businesses can gain visibility into network traffic on iOS devices and block connections to malicious sites, wherever users go.	N/A

Pricing

Apple Business Essentials

Cisco Secure Endpoint for iOS (Security Connector)

Editions & Modules

Fleetsmith Managed: $8.25
per device, per month

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Apple Business Essentials	Cisco Secure Endpoint for iOS (Security Connector)
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	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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	Apple Business Essentials	Cisco Secure Endpoint for iOS (Security Connector)

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User Ratings
	Apple Business Essentials	Cisco Secure Endpoint for iOS (Security Connector)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (23 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (21 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (21 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Apple Business Essentials	Cisco Secure Endpoint for iOS (Security Connector)
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	Cisco No answers on this topic
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	Cisco No answers on this topic
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	Cisco No answers on this topic
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	Cisco No answers on this topic
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	Cisco No answers on this topic
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	Cisco No answers on this topic
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	Cisco No answers on this topic
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