Jamf School vs. Snow Device Manager

Jamf school is amazing at device management as far as tracking devices, installing apps, removing apps, pushing out updates, and putting persons in specific groups or classes based on the needs of the student/teacher. There could be improvement in the instance where you send an iPad for repair and it returns with a new SN and you have to swap out the license from one SN to another.

Incentivized

Once we had got 20k plus users to blacklist. The data was too big. We wanted the results within some hours. When we used SDM and did all in one shot. It hardly took 2 hours. The same we presented to the clients in our weekly call. Got appreciation as well for that. Yes, just to summarize, even though we have huge datas, this helps us to fetch the results too easily. Thanks.

• Concise management
• Data tracking
• Instructional tool

Incentivized

• It handles software and the applications in all the platforms. It is very much useful for us when we have got many projects.
• We also blacklist the applications that creates any risk when triggered incident for us.
• It is a very convenient for us to handle as it gives an excellent security, even if we run any queries in the background.

• Steep learning curve
• Cannot track MacBook locations
• Unassigning and Reassigning devices when changing SNs from repairs is complicated

Incentivized

• At times whitelisting the applications creates a problem, now it has been improved more.
• No editable option once the data saved.
• License issue has been occurred initially. Even though license was there, we couldn't use it properly. Slow it recovered.

For the most part, Jamf School does everything it is programmed to do. However, there are a few instances where we have run into snags. This is to be expected with any software though and working customer support has always been helpful. Customer support does their best to help with each scenario we've had issues with.

Incentivized

We originally tried an MDM from Cisco and it did not deliver in useability or features like Jamf

Incentivized

As I said, we can do the task in bulk which is the added advantage in this. At times alerts gets triggered in multiple like 1000 plus. We can't do it manually as it kills time. But by using this, we can do it on bulk within hours. So likewise, we also did in the same way. We can pull reports also from this (excel files). We showcased to clients wherein we got the appreciation also. Really liked. Thanks team!

• Significantly reduced the time of managing devices on the class or using configurator

Incentivized

• Pros: blacklist the applications that creates any risk when triggered incident for us. Cons: unable to whitelist as it is creating bug
• It is a very convenient for us to handle as it gives an excellent security, even if we run any queries in the background.
• Cons : NA