We performed a comparison between IBM MaaS360 and Microsoft Intune based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: IBM MaaS360 comes out on top in this comparison mainly because it provides better support than Microsoft Intune. However, it should be noted that Intune users are overall more satisfied with the pricing.
"My customers value the ability to control all their devices from a central point in IBM MaaS360."
"Mobile Device Configuration with policy applying: This significantly reduces time of device configuration."
"The most valuable features are mobile device management and security (which allows you to quarantine infected devices)."
"Remote enablement feature and access to internal resources on the VPN."
"It helped us reduce the number of support incidents by limiting users' access to device configurations."
"It is a stable solution that functions twenty-four hours and seven days a week."
"The product’s most valuable feature is email, browser, and application security."
"The ability to send an iPad out to someone and have them auto-provision it when they are out in the field is fantastic. We don't have to have it all configured before we ship it. This is probably the biggest value add."
"We use a local Active Directory, but we weren't able to manage all our on-site systems without a solution like Intune, and we needed to deploy software like VPNs and other things. It's seamless now to to this through Intune."
"We have a BYOD policy, and this solution helps us manage our devices."
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune."
"Conditional access has helped us tailor and enforce our security policies in the mobile space."
"If you need only to load a specific profile and you don't have deep security functionalities, et cetera, Intune is very nice and good."
"The biggest benefits of Intune are the ability to push changes and the added security. When we moved forward with Defender, we onboarded all those machines automatically. That helps dramatically. For a while, we were left with machines that weren't protected. We could see where people had done things they shouldn't have done, and Defender saved our skins a few times. It didn't happen a lot, but it happened enough that it made us glad we made that decision."
"We can securely manage both company-owned devices and personal devices enrolled in our BYOD program."
"The look needs to be updated and it could be simpler to use."
"The product needs to improve tech support."
"The solution needs to offer live technical support. Right now, it's just a chat window and it's rather unhelpful."
"We had a problem with Microsoft computers. If you downloaded emails on a Microsoft Windows Surface PC, that would also require a license. The Outlook application didn't look great for us on a PC."
"The user interface could definitely use some improvement."
"When we have MaaS360 installed on smartphones, it consumes the battery of the device at a much faster pace. This is one of the areas of improvement that I would like to highlight. We have also observed that in the contact list, a lot of duplication is happening. A single contact is duplicated three or four times, which also consumes more memory resources. If they can work on improving it for these aspects, it will have a more positive impact not only on the way the application is being consumed by the user but also on user satisfaction. A lot of new features are being deployed or rolled out by companies that are competitors of IBM MaaS360. IBM will have to ensure that all those features are on board so that we have a complete suite of features in the platform, rather than deploying multiple diverse solutions to cater to the requirements of our customers."
"The user experience really isn't so good."
"An area for improvement would be handshaking with Microsoft in terms of trying to get a DLP on Microsoft OS."
"The biggest problem we ever have is when something goes out of date after 30 days when nobody has logged into it. We do have a problem trying to get those back online. We've been working with Microsoft to resolve that problem, but that's been the only issue that we've had in the last few years."
"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."
"There are a couple of issues with stability."
"It would be nice to have a location tracker for the mobile device management tool. I'm not sure if it exists but hasn't been configured or if it's missing, but we've been unable to utilize the location features."
"The most important thing is reporting. They should improve their reporting. They should give a free hand to users. In SCCM, I can create my own reports. For example, in SCCM, I can create an inventory report for my PC or for all PCs, but in Intune, we don't have an option to create any report. Microsoft claims that Intune is a successor of SCCM, but SCCM is more powerful than Intune. So, they should develop Intune more and make it equivalent to SCCM. Then, their product will be great in the market."
"I would like to see easier pushdowns. Currently, we have to package our own software and then push it. Intune can make that way easier and integrate applications, such as Zoom and Adobe Acrobat, that are used by a lot of enterprise or corporate organizations."
"More integration with monitoring tools is needed."
"The scalability could be improved, and like most other MDM products, Intune is good but not 100% there yet."
IBM MaaS360 is ranked 8th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 34 reviews while Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 165 reviews. IBM MaaS360 is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM MaaS360 writes "It lets you separate work and personal data on mobile phones, but the interface is outdated and clunky". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". IBM MaaS360 is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, SOTI MobiControl, Jamf Pro, IBM MobileFirst and Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM), whereas Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Entra ID and Google Cloud Identity. See our IBM MaaS360 vs. Microsoft Intune report.
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