Mixed experiences with MobileIron
February 12, 2019
Mixed experiences with MobileIron
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with MobileIron
My organization uses MobileIron to manage several hundred tablets used for our retail and development experiences. We have relied on MobileIron for approximately two years. We rely on MDM to secure the tablets, update our custom apps, and to remotely manage the tablets (restart, update, etc.). We use MobileIron's web/cloud services to group and organize devices; we also use MobileIron API's to upload app binaries up to the cloud for later push to devices.
- Tight integration with the native tablet operating system to expose configuration points (WiFi network, Bluetooth status, etc.)
- Support staff respond to tickets within SLA
- Frequent email updates about system changes/downtime, etc.
- Some of the API's we use seem to be under-tested. We've had outages as a result of API's behaving unexpectedly.
- We see high variability in system latency; calls to API's frequently time out.
- The web interface is not intuitive for managing devices and device groups. I have to jump between multiple screens to retrieve device status; filters and search results are usually discarded as I move back and forth between pages.
- I've posted questions to their private forums and did not receive a response. Seems opening tickets is only way to get a response.
- MobileIron initially was a positive part of our mobile stack. However after two years, we are exploring in-house solutions as Mobile Iron has not been stable enough for our needs. We had a MobileIron-related outage last year that took a week to resolve and cost our business substantially.
- I believe MobileIron is more effective with Android devices than iOS.
- MobileIron seems better suited to devices that need to be updated/managed infrequently (~ 1/week or less often). For tablets that need daily MDM interactions, MobileIron was not sufficiently reliable.
I was not part of the original team that selected MobileIron, so I can't speak to why they were selected. We evaluated building a custom solution in-house but went with MobileIron for faster implementation.