IBM Security MaaS360 vs. Sophos Mobile

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Security MaaS360
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
IBM Security MaaS360 is a mobile security offering developed by Fiberlink, acquired and owned by IBM since early 2014.
$4
Per Client
Sophos Mobile
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Sophos Mobile is a unified endpoint management option providing mobile data protection and security against mobile malware.N/A
Pricing
IBM Security MaaS360Sophos Mobile
Editions & Modules
Essentials
$4
Per Client
Deluxe
$5
Per Client
Premier
$6.25
Per Client
Enterprise
$9
Per Client
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Security MaaS360Sophos Mobile
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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IBM Security MaaS360Sophos Mobile
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Security MaaS360Sophos Mobile
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(45 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.1
(33 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.3
(34 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Security MaaS360Sophos Mobile
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
This product has helped me find lost mobile devices and has helped protect our corporate intellectual property as well as making it easier to support our 700 users in our Canada manufacturing facilities. We are better able to manage our fleet of devices and manage the apps that are being used on these devices as well as which apps are being used. We can easily wipe out a device if someone resigns and to better protect information. It makes it easier to deploy a completely configured mobile device to remote users and supports Apple, Android or BYOD. Once configured correctly this product integrates seamlessly with Apple to better manage off the shelf apps or custom applications. This product has made my life working with managing two different corporate entities and their divisions all across Canada with relative ease and leaves me more time to work on other issues. And reports are simple and customizable making it simple to see and understand and utilize the information to make better informed decisions.
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Sophos
I recommend it for any corporate scenario of companies that have smartphones, tablets, and computers and want to manage them all by controlling what to install, permission to use applications and services, and easily obtaining a report and inventory of everything. We protect against viruses, spam, and the main cyber threats and also physical security against theft. Data can be erased from the cloud from anywhere, and we prevent data theft. It is compatible with all operating systems, and Sophos technical support is available worldwide.
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Pros
IBM
  • BYOD encourages use of personal devices like smartphones, tablets, laptops and wearables to access enterprise data from anywhere.
  • UEM provides best outstanding user experience and data security.
  • Makes mobile device management easy and more centralized.
  • Provides more Security Revolution to all our devices to protect all the sophisticated cybercrimes.
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Sophos
  • Easy deployment.
  • We are on next generation type of tools to be able to protect corporate data.
  • Allows the management IT group to be able to control the probable theft of information.
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Cons
IBM
  • MaaS360 with Watson has a lot of features and capabilities, which can sometimes make it difficult for us to navigate. Improving the user interface and making it friendly could help make the platform easier to use.
  • Expanding integrations with other systems to provide better support for a wider range of systems and platforms.
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Sophos
  • Some instabilities with old Android versions.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
Rock solid solution with highly accessible support when needed. We do not want to interact with MaaS360 on a daily basis but when an issue occurs we are always able to find resolution due to the various support resources we have access to
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Sophos
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Usability
IBM
Having years of experience with MDM and experiencing the evolution of the granularity of the functionality MDM's have had to evolve, no MDM is ever "easy" to use. MaaS360 rises to the top however, because zero day changes are always ahead of the competition. A huge benefit with MaaS360 and IBM's approach to supporting these changes is that they seldom change configuration work flows. Competing Vendors always arbitrarily change workflows which requires a significnat ongoing learning curve in order to maintain technical competence
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Sophos
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
Never had an outage in 11 years of using this solution
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Sophos
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Performance
IBM
typically very consistent but occasionaly some lag
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Sophos
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Support Rating
IBM
MaaS360's phone support has been decent the few times I have used it. In addition the person who on-boarded us has been available for additional questions after the process was over. However IBM could do a much better job in creating a user-friendly search engine and white-paper database to help people find topics. Right now finding info is more based on searching through white papers themselves.
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Sophos
No answers on this topic
Online Training
IBM
The resources made available to me by IBM were Stellar. These resources remain available today and are extremely important as technology changes
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Sophos
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
IBM
To implement IBM Security MaaS360 with Watson, follow these steps: Set up the platform, enroll devices, configure policies and settings, monitor and manage devices. Implementing it can help organizations to securely manage and monitor the use of mobile devices and related resources in their networks, improving security and productivity for their users.
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Sophos
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
I really love how this software is full-featured comes with all kind of robust features allows us to lock down all aspects of our devices incase the device is lost of stolen. It also allows us to install apps remotely ability to track location set-up mobile data groups is awesome and allows diagnostic messaging when data limit is reached.
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Sophos
Personally, haven't seen any other MDM on the market, but I feel since Sophos is greatly known to have easy to use products, that the others may not be as easy to use as Sophos Mobile Control. One of the key factors for organizations to choose Sophos Mobile Control and Security is because the Android OS (most attacked OS on the planet) is protected with award-winning antivirus and anti malware from Sophos. We have seen as advisors, how unprotected customers, get huge telecom bills because of the lack of security, since they think that an Android OS is healthy enough... big mistake. One simple thing I always tell friends, family and customers, protect your Android device with Sophos Security (it's free for home users).
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Scalability
IBM
Rock solid, consistent solution
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Sophos
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
IBM
  • We were able to reduce our monthly bill for iPad data usage by well over 60%. Simply by limiting the applications available to what was absolutely necessary to do their jobs.
  • We have never had an iPad lost that couldn’t be recovered.
  • We were able to reassign iPads when we discovered techs were not using them. Some techs preferred to use their company phones.
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Sophos
  • Ease of obtaining data with management and greater control of all the company's equipment.
  • Strong protection and easy to administer.
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