Jamf Pro - Best there is for iOS/ OSX
August 22, 2017

Jamf Pro - Best there is for iOS/ OSX

Sandy Hinding | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Jamf Pro

Our K-12 school district has 4500 iPads and 2300 MacBook Airs in use by students and staff. Jamf Pro is used for all areas of user and device provisioning, device management, and inventory. Additionally, our building and level II technicians use Jamf Pro for iOS app management and distribution as well as inventory and other device reporting needs.
  • The Jamf Pro tool set covers every facet of OS X deployment, management and inventory. Standalone apps are available for OSX package building, imaging, remote "just in time" package and script deployment and administration of device. In addition to these tools, your environment is easily viewed and managed through a Web App. Inventory reports can be customized to suit any need.
  • For needs that do not fit into the "Out of the Box" solution, Jamf Pro can also utilize custom scripts, third party and open source tools customized branding, and extension attributes to gather additional inventory information.
  • The Jamf Pro iOS environment is easily incorporated into Apple School Manager for iOS (and OSX) device enrollment and app distribution. Mobile devices can be locked, unlocked, located, passcode-wiped, refreshed, iOS updated, shutdown, restarted and wiped from your Jamf Pro web app console.
  • In addition to excellent and timely assistance provided by the jamf support team, the Jamf Nation User Community is the top collection of Apple administrators in the world. This very active community shares open source tools, scripting assistance and both jamf and general assistance that is incomparable to anything else available to iOS/OSX admin.
  • Jmaf Pro has "zero day" release schedules for both iOS and OS X operating system releases. You never get stuck with features from Apple OS releases that are not yet supported by jamf pro.
  • Automated patch management is a "work in progress".
  • In our district, we have an iOS/OSX Sys Admin using jamf Pro managing over 6500 devices and the 7 jamf servers. On the Windows side of the house, same position and salary, managing less than 1000 devices.
  • By purchasing an annual training pass, we can send every one of our building techs to certification classes at no additional charge with 4 certification levels.
  • Online entry level courses are also offered to new users.
There really are no other products in the space that provide the services and quality of the Jamf Pro solution.
jamf software alo happily is a local company which brings added value to us, including their annual user conference, as well as the company's generous support of local Apple admin groups.
Jamf Pro is a great solution for any OS or iOS administrator that wants a reliable product that can be accessed by end users, entry level techs, and experienced sys admin. User permissions can be extremely granularly managed, both individually and by group, as well as by building/location. Whether you have thousands of Apple devices or you're a Microsoft shop with a small number of Macs or iOS devices, jamf Pro scales perfectly to any size environment.