Jamf Now vs. Lightspeed Filter

Lightspeed Filter

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Jamf Now	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Jamf Now, formerly Bushel, is a cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution for iPads, iPhones, and Macs in the workplace. According to the vendor, Jamf Now makes device management accessible and affordable for everyone, so businesses can support their users without help from IT. Jamf Now helps configure settings on all Apple devices quickly and consistently over the air and allows users to manage their devices by centrally deploying apps anytime from anywhere. Jamf Now can be…	N/A
Lightspeed Filter	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	Lightspeed Filter (formerly Relay), from Lightspeed Systems in Austin, offers insights to help understand and maximize the use of 1:1 classroom devices, keep users safe and increase the educational return on technology investments. Lightspeed Systems aims to help users make decisions to enhance technology use, report up administrators, present to your board, reassure concerned parents, empower teachers, and direct students on appropriate use. According to the vendor, Lightspeed Filter powers…	N/A

Pricing

Jamf Now

Lightspeed Filter

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Jamf Now	Lightspeed Filter
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

$2 per month per Mac or iOS device. First 3 devices are free. Price per month per device, billed monthly. No minimum. Cancel at any time; no questions asked. As your needs change, add or remove devices. We bill you based on current number of managed devices.

Priced per student device. Quote available upon request.

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Community Pulse
	Jamf Now	Lightspeed Filter

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User Ratings
	Jamf Now	Lightspeed Filter
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (5 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (1 ratings)	1.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Jamf Now	Lightspeed Filter
Likelihood to Recommend	Jamf Software, LLC Anywhere with under 100 Apple devices, I would recommend this service. It was always so simple to add a device you recently purchased to your inventory and be able to check in on it anytime. If they had more than 100, I would recommend Jamf Pro, the enterprise version of this software. Incentivized Logan Wiser IT Director Read full review	Lightspeed Systems Lightspeed web filtering using the Chromebook Relay agent is amazing and does a great job for a cloud filtering solution. The reports that are available are great and can be customized and retains data for 90 days. Reports are easily shared with staff and/or parents for transparency and disciplinary reasons. The agent for Lightspeed (Relay) does not work well with OSX and works okay in Windows, but doesn't allow you to access local IP addresses in the web browser. There needs to be a way to bypass filtering for local network access. This can make it unusable in some cases. Incentivized JB Jonathan Butler Systems Administrator Read full review
Pros	Jamf Software, LLC Resetting passwords remotely.. Locking or wiping a device. Pushing new apps out to all or one iPad. Controlling what apps are installed on the iPads. Steven Nielsen Senior Project Manager Read full review	Lightspeed Systems Reduces bandwidth consumption. Improves network performance. It is compatible with a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. It can be implemented in both wired and wireless networks. It can be installed in minutes and you can configure its settings with a few clicks. Learning environments work. Incentivized Damith Low Software Engineer Read full review
Cons	Jamf Software, LLC I would like to see some more advanced functions for the iOS supervised mode. Maybe pushing iOS updates? Right now we can only see if it requires an update, but can't schedule an update time, etc. I would like to see Jamf Now work with Apple to allow apps with in-app purchases that can be used with Jamf Now. Right now some apps don't have two versions available in the app store (a full version, and a free version with in-app purchases), so the single version free app with in-app purchases can't be used across our enterprise environment. :( They could do with a better lost device activation lock. Currently, you can only lock a device from being erased and re-setup if you associate an icloud account with it and turn it on to find the lost device. Incentivized Ricky Jordan Senior Computer Systems Admin Read full review	Lightspeed Systems It sometimes takes longer than expected for new filtering rules to apply. Sometimes a site is blocked due to sub-sites or links, but it does not easily identify the source of the block if it is buried in the site. They have several reports included, but it would be nice to create custom reports. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Jamf Software, LLC Working in an environment with just macOS devices, Jamf Now is a great option. With Jamf Now, you get details with configurations that get down to the fine details of each device. Without Jamf Now, it would be a much bigger headache managing our Apple devices. Overall, this application makes our jobs much easier. Incentivized Ryan Meza Systems Engineer Read full review	Lightspeed Systems It is unreliable and does not function as it is supposed to do so. As previously mentioned, there is a glitch when creating a block list. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Jamf Software, LLC No body is perfect and occasionally, but rare, it take a little bit to get a reply on the chat, but overall as compared to other chat sessions it is pretty responsive and fairly quick. They allow you to upload a screen shot if that helps and to reply with solutions via email so I have it as a reference in writing for future problems. Steven Nielsen Senior Project Manager Read full review	Lightspeed Systems No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Jamf Software, LLC Ease of use, price point, support, features - are all the reasons why we chose Jamf Now. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Lightspeed Systems We were already a [Lightspeed] customer so the transition was seamless to Relay. Their support and team at [Lightspeed] are top-notch. We have been with Lightspeed for over 20 years and have evaluated on occasions other options and [ended] up back with [Lightspeed] each time. Their price point, ease of use, great team of engineers, and overall customer focus keep them on top in my eyes. Incentivized Joseph Kuzo Director of Information Technology Read full review
Return on Investment	Jamf Software, LLC Low Cost: 2-3 dollars a device for a month was cheaper than the time spent repairing the Mac server. Incentivized Logan Wiser IT Director Read full review	Lightspeed Systems Very costly per year Does a great job with 1:1 filtering on Chromebooks Safety Check checks student for possible self harm and alerts staff Incentivized JB Jonathan Butler Systems Administrator Read full review
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