Apple Business Essentials vs. ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus

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
ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
The ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus application is an enterprise mobile device management (MDM) solution.N/A
Pricing
Apple Business EssentialsManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus
Editions & Modules
Fleetsmith Managed
$8.25
per device, per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apple Business EssentialsManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus
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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Apple Business EssentialsManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus
Small Businesses
Rippling
Rippling
Score 8.5 out of 10
Rippling
Rippling
Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cisco Meraki SM
Cisco Meraki SM
Score 9.6 out of 10
Cisco Meraki SM
Cisco Meraki SM
Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Meraki SM
Cisco Meraki SM
Score 9.6 out of 10
Cisco Meraki SM
Cisco Meraki SM
Score 9.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Apple Business EssentialsManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(21 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(19 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(21 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apple Business EssentialsManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus
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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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
An amazing solution for an organisation of up to 25 devices as they offer a free subscription. You could use this to trial the product at your organisation. The perfect fit for any size of organisation with the software being simple enough for non-technical staff to be able to deploy and manage devices.
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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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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • Geo tracking: once the mobile app is installed, the phone checks in to our cloud management console and we can ping the location of the device easily.
  • Lost/stolen device: when a device is lost or stolen, we can make the phone make a sounds to help in finding it or perform a complete wipe to remove any sensitive data.
  • App management: they make it easy to add mobile apps that can automatically be pushed out to all of the managed devices. It is easy to control what apps you want to have immediately installed, apps you want to make available, or apps you want to block.
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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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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • Documents are sorted by some random order by default, users need to manually select "sort by A-Z", and even by doing so, coming out of documents and back in will reset the order to the random one. Would be amazing if A-Z was default, or if I could find out what this default order was to edit the files accordingly.
  • Playing audio files from the app is approached as if it was a video: if you come out of the app or lock the screen, the audio will stop. Would be great if it could act like music apps and keep playing with locked screen.
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Likelihood to Renew
Apple
No answers on this topic
ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
We would be very likely to renew unless there were unforeseen changes to our budget.
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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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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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.
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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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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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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
We selected ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus because is one of the best solutions on the market. Very good price, easy deployment, and management. Great support from the vendor. Great user community on forums. Geolocation and real-time management are very useful. The product is constantly improving and offers many possibilities
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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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ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
  • Significant reduction in the time for configuring new devices when changing mobile contracts
  • Reduction in the time to resolve issues from hours to minutes
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