Active Sync alone is not enough. Don't go it alone. You need an MDM.
Updated December 30, 2014
Active Sync alone is not enough. Don't go it alone. You need an MDM.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
VSP 5.9.2 Sentry 4.9
Modules Used
- Currently no special modules
Overall Satisfaction with MobileIron Acquired by Ivanti
We deployed MobileIron 2.5 years ago because of growing pressure toadd iOS devices as an option to our BlackBerry fleet. We use MI to secure and manage our iOS devices. We currenly manage 162 iOS devices across 5 offices. For us it allows us to secure our devices with a password, monitors jailbreaking and allows remote wiping. It gives us more flexibily and granularity than just Active Sync alone.
- Make it very easy to apply different policies to different groups of people.
- They support delivery of certificate based authentication. A must have my my opinion so users don't have to change network password on the device when they change their network password.
- I'm not sure of weaknesses. I feel most of the issues we experience are because of limitation of Apple to allow access to certain functions or features we would like to control.
- MobileIron has allowed us to start supporting iOS devices which has made our user's very happy now that they have an additional choice over BlackBerry. It makes IT happy as we still have enough control to be sure our data is safe.
Two and a half years ago the MDM market space was still a very new space. At that time we reviewed Zenprise and MobileIron. Both were very comparable but at the time MI allowed us to get in a a lower number of licenses and keep our cost low as we entered into supporting iOS devices. I would say we got a little lucky in our selection as year after year they are always rated high in the Gartner magic quadrent studies.