Apple Business Essentials vs. Trend Micro Mobile Security for Enterprises

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apple Business Essentials
Score 5.5 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
Trend Micro Mobile Security for Enterprises
Score 6.5 out of 10
N/A
Trend Micro Mobile Security for Enterprises os a mobile device management (MDM) application, available standalone or part of the Trend Micro Smart Protection Suite.N/A
Pricing
Apple Business EssentialsTrend Micro Mobile Security for Enterprises
Editions & Modules
Fleetsmith Managed
$8.25
per device, per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apple Business EssentialsTrend Micro Mobile Security for Enterprises
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFree unlimited trial for up to 10 devices Device Intelligence free for unlimited devices iOS/tvOS devices free during beta period
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(21 ratings)
9.7
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(21 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apple Business EssentialsTrend Micro Mobile Security for Enterprises
Likelihood to Recommend
Apple
Fleetsmith is well suited for companies with a lot of Macs, Mac minis, Apple tvs, etc., that are all over the place (different offices, states, countries, floors, remote employees, etc). It makes the management of these central where it would be almost impossible otherwise.
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Trend Micro
Mobile Security can be applied to any business and is relevant to all business today. The importance of controlling the endpoint cannot be emphasised enough especially with the rapid growth of PII laws across the globe. Looking at the applications, Mobile Security not the only reason for the rating but rather the total ecosystem you get with Trend. It must be noted that I was a fiercely opposed to Trend but once I seen this Ecosystem in place and working, with the people backing it, I am happy to say that I was wrong. Buzzwords / bragging rights aside I would rather have Trend defending my infrastructure than any other brand.
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Pros
Apple
  • Fleetsmith does a great job of being unobtrusive on managed devices. After initial deployment, one might never know it’s there except when it prompts to enforce a software update.
  • Fleetsmith has sensible defaults and relatively few decisions for the administrator to make; for most applications and configurations, it’s sufficient to enforce a minimum version. For more complex use cases, I suggest falling back on Fleetsmith’s ability to install tools such as Puppet and run arbitrary shell commands.
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Trend Micro
  • It is good at blocking calls and text messages.
  • The interface is easy to navigate and the features it offers are quite visible.
  • It provides backup storage which is very useful for us.
  • Its features are its basic strength like message blocking, battery measurement as well as network protection.
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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.
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Trend Micro
  • The interface may take some time to get used to.
  • Scanning sometimes is really quick, which appears to be too fast to actually check everything.
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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.
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Trend Micro
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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.
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Trend Micro
I have not run into any issues when contacting support. My issues were resolved with ease.
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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.
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Trend Micro
Its not on the individual points where Trend stands out but the holistic security you get. In general other vendors buy solutions, sell then integrate into their product portfolio. This approach which leads to installation and interoperability issues as well as adding more screens to watch for the real life view on the endpoint. Trend, in my experience, do not launch immature applications to market and when it comes out it works well with the other Trend applications in the estate, it plays nice with others also.
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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.
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Trend Micro
  • Our mobiles phones and data are secure with this tool.
  • This tool seems to work so well and provides good protection.
  • It ensures message protection and network protection too.
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