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
Rippling
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Rippling’s platform for HR, IT, payroll, and spend management automates the entire employee lifecycle, ensures compliance, supports device management, and provides real-time financial visibility from a central dashboard.
$8
per month per user
Pricing
Apple Business Essentials
Rippling
Editions & Modules
Fleetsmith Managed
$8.25
per device, per month
Recommended
$8.00
starting price per user, per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apple Business Essentials
Rippling
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No 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
For additional pricing details visit the Rippling pricing page.
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Apple Business Essentials
Rippling
Features
Apple Business Essentials
Rippling
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Apple Business Essentials
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Ratings
Rippling
9.1
1114 Ratings
11% above category average
Employee demographic data
00 Ratings
8.9792 Ratings
Employment history
00 Ratings
8.9818 Ratings
Job profiles and administration
00 Ratings
9.1931 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
00 Ratings
9.2828 Ratings
Organizational charting
00 Ratings
9.2963 Ratings
Organization and location management
00 Ratings
9.2858 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
00 Ratings
9.0660 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Apple Business Essentials
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Ratings
Rippling
9.3
1161 Ratings
13% above category average
Pay calculation
00 Ratings
9.31045 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
00 Ratings
9.0732 Ratings
Benefit plan administration
00 Ratings
9.01015 Ratings
Direct deposit files
00 Ratings
9.51018 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management
00 Ratings
9.4785 Ratings
Reimbursement management
00 Ratings
9.3688 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Apple Business Essentials
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Ratings
Rippling
9.3
1042 Ratings
13% above category average
Approval workflow
00 Ratings
9.41005 Ratings
Balance details
00 Ratings
9.3958 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment
00 Ratings
9.3713 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Apple Business Essentials
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Ratings
Rippling
9.2
1208 Ratings
12% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information
00 Ratings
9.41144 Ratings
Update personal information
00 Ratings
9.51194 Ratings
View company policy documentation
00 Ratings
9.4995 Ratings
Employee recognition
00 Ratings
8.6667 Ratings
View job history
00 Ratings
9.0857 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Apple Business Essentials
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Ratings
Rippling
8.9
517 Ratings
10% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets
00 Ratings
8.9517 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Apple Business Essentials
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Ratings
Rippling
9.0
630 Ratings
18% above category average
Report builder
00 Ratings
8.8610 Ratings
Pre-built reports
00 Ratings
9.1576 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data
00 Ratings
9.2522 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Apple Business Essentials
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Ratings
Rippling
9.4
860 Ratings
16% above category average
New hire portal
00 Ratings
9.5836 Ratings
Manager tracking tools
00 Ratings
9.3656 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Apple Business Essentials
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Ratings
Rippling
9.0
510 Ratings
11% above category average
Corporate goal setting
00 Ratings
9.1439 Ratings
Individual goal setting
00 Ratings
9.0469 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility
00 Ratings
9.1435 Ratings
Performance tracking
00 Ratings
8.9465 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Apple Business Essentials
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Ratings
Rippling
9.3
587 Ratings
17% above category average
Performance plans
00 Ratings
9.2518 Ratings
Performance improvement plans
00 Ratings
9.2491 Ratings
Review status tracking
00 Ratings
9.2521 Ratings
Review reminders
00 Ratings
9.4552 Ratings
Multiple review frequency
00 Ratings
9.3477 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Apple Business Essentials
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Ratings
Rippling
9.1
432 Ratings
15% above category average
Create succession plans/pools
00 Ratings
9.1358 Ratings
Candidate ranking
00 Ratings
9.2369 Ratings
Candidate search
00 Ratings
9.2387 Ratings
Candidate development
00 Ratings
9.0368 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
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.
It has a favourites section for commonly used functions. This is perfect for logging in pre-sift and managing my timekeeping. It is easy to view my payslip. It is well-documented and accurate, and it also provides me with an accurate timeline for when to expect my pay to clear. Overall, very easy to use and great interface.
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.
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.
Rippling could improve their payment days. Currently they make employee payments around the 15th and 30th of the month, but it varies slightly with every month. It would make more sense to do this payment on every other Friday or every other Monday.
The AI assistant has always been able to direct me to the correct solution to any question i have about Rippling. Payroll is so easy, it takes about 10 minutes to go through the process.
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.
It's extremely user friendly! I've used some awful UI in tools before, and Rippling is not one of them. It's very clear where certain things can be found, and it's very easy to update/change any information whether it's employee info or a policy. Our implementation was a breeze and getting everyone onboard was as simple as sending an email.
I like that the availability in using Rippling at any given time is useful to me. Getting on the site freely when I need gives me security of knowing that I can be in control of viewing health insurance and hours information. I have yet to get any errors in using the Rippling app.
Rippling's performance has been great, no errors or glitches yet so far. I am confident that Going from one page to the next and all its complexity usage does not lag or times out, it works effectively and efficiently. While using Rippling and other apps it does not tend to slow it down, works great. No complaints.
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.
I have contacted support one time, and I was assisted by the Artificial Intelligence bot. Not only did it help with my inquiry, but it also went the extra mile by suggesting other options. I was looking for a feature I could not find, and it was very helpful. It would be nice also to chat with an actual person.
It's really easy to implement in comparison to other tools or applications. Different key points are easily configured and implemented as per need, having different configurations in systems. Implementation is something which binds the different parameters of an organization in a single row. Implementation of rippling is much easier, quicker, and error free than any other software. I recommend it strongly!
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.
Rippling has a much more modern, user-friendly approach, and it continues to build out their product suite to help create a seamlessly integrated eco-system. BambooHR is also more modern, but doesn't seem to have the broad product suite that Rippling is pursuing. UKG felt so disconnected and archaic to work with... quite painful, actually. I really like that Rippling has been extremely supportive with the onboarding process, ensuring that you work with various members of their implementation team to get things up and running which leads to a better experience and quicker ROI.
I can go on here and see all my hours and pto plus health benefits. I like to have the work handbook handy to refer to legal things. How to work my role within it's limits. Being able to put in my hours and view when they are approved is a huge benefit for me.
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.