Google Endpoint Management vs Microsoft Intune comparison

Google Endpoint Management offers a versatile solution for managing a variety of devices and operating systems across enterprise environments, ensuring secure access and compliance.

Google Endpoint Management provides IT administrators with robust tools for device oversight, policy enforcement, and secure connectivity. It's designed for integrated management of both company-owned and BYOD devices, facilitating streamlined operations within complex infrastructures. The platform supports multi-OS environments and includes features for remote configuration, mobile app management, and comprehensive reporting, ensuring IT departments can effectively monitor and maintain control over their mobile landscape.

• Device Configuration: Enables administrators to set up and enforce device policies remotely.
• App Management: Provides control over app distribution and updates across devices.
• Security Management: Ensures devices meet security standards through encryption and policy enforcement.
• Comprehensive Reporting: Offers detailed analyses and reports on device compliance and usage.
• Multi-OS Support: Supports management across Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS devices.

• Enhanced Security: Improved protection for corporate data through consistent policy enforcement.
• Operational Efficiency: Simplified device management reduces administrative overhead.
• Cost Savings: Reduces the need for multiple management tools with its integrated platform.
• Compliance Assurance: Helps maintain regulatory compliance through comprehensive monitoring.
• User Productivity: Ensures minimal disruption to user workflow with smooth remote configurations.

Google Endpoint Management is widely adopted across industries such as healthcare, finance, and education, where strict data protection and regulatory compliance are critical. In healthcare, it ensures patient data remains secure while enabling remote work. Financial institutions leverage it to maintain the security of sensitive financial information, and in education, it supports the management of student and staff devices, facilitating a streamlined educational experience.

Microsoft Intune is a comprehensive cloud-based service that allows you to remotely manage mobile devices and mobile applications without worrying about the security of your organization’s data. Device and app management can be used on company-owned devices as well as personal devices.

In an increasingly mobile workforce, Microsoft Intune keeps your sensitive data safe while on the move. Microsoft Intune makes it possible for your team members to work anywhere using their mobile devices. Microsoft Intune provides both the flexibility and the control needed for securing all your data on the cloud, no matter where the device with the data is located.

Microsoft Intune Device Management Key Features

With Microsoft Intune Device Management you can:

• Ensure devices and apps are compliant with your security requirements.
• Rapidly deploy and authenticate apps on all company devices.
• Remotely access devices to troubleshoot issues or to remove data from them.
• Generate reports for all devices in the system.
• Monitor the way users access and share information to protect company information.
• Set rules and configure settings on personal and organization-owned devices to access data and networks.
• Create user groups and device groups, allowing you to rapidly access many users and devices simultaneously.

Mobile Application Management

Mobile application management in Intune is designed to protect your organization’s data at the application level.

With Microsoft Intune Application Management you can:

• Configure apps to run with specific settings enabled.
• Update existing apps that are already on the device.
• See reports on which apps are used and monitor their usage.
• Selectively wipe organization data from apps.
• Add mobile apps to user groups and devices.

As part of Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) suite, Intune integrates with Microsoft Entra ID for access control and with Azure Information Protection for data protection. It also integrates with Microsoft 365 Applications.

Reviews from Real Users

Microsoft Intune stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to secure all devices under its management and the flexibility that the solution offers its users.

A computing services manager notes, "Its security is most valuable. It gives us a way to secure devices, not only those that are steady. We do have a few tablets and other devices, and it is a way for us to secure these devices and manage them. We know they're out there and what's their status. We can manage their life cycle and verify that they're updated properly."

The head of IT engineering at a financial services company writes, "The one feature we find most useful is the Mobile Application Manager. There are two types: we have the complete MDM and the Mobile Application Manager (MAM). We don't give our users phones, it is their own personal phone, and we need to allow them to have access to the company details on their phone. We need to create a balance between their own personal data and the company data. We deploy the Mobile Application Manager for them so that we won't be able to interfere with their own personal data."