Parallels Mac Management and Microsoft Intune are both robust management solutions for macOS devices integrated with Windows environments. Microsoft Intune is considered the more comprehensive solution due to its extensive features, despite its higher costs.
Features: Parallels Mac Management focuses on seamless macOS device management within SCCM, emphasizing application deployment and inventory. Intune offers broader cross-platform support, advanced security policies, and compliance management. Users often highlight Intune's extensive feature set compared to Parallels.
Room for Improvement: Parallels Mac Management users report limited cross-platform capabilities and occasional performance lags. Intune users need better support for third-party applications and more intuitive configuration settings. Intune’s challenges align more with functional enhancements.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Parallels Mac Management is praised for integration with existing SCCM infrastructure, simplifying deployment. Users find the initial setup straightforward but note occasional scaling difficulties. Intune is recognized for its cloud-based deployment model, facilitating quicker rollouts and adjustments. Customer service for Intune is rated higher.
Pricing and ROI: Parallels Mac Management users feel the product provides good value relative to its setup costs, marking satisfactory ROI. Microsoft Intune's higher initial setup cost is justified by its broader capabilities and better long-term ROI as per user reviews. Parallels is noted for cost efficiency, but Intune's richer feature set is considered worthwhile by many.
If my organization has sensitive data we don't want to leak, deploying the policies can present technical challenges and potential loopholes.
Autopilot allows bulk enrollment of devices, making it easy for end users, even those without technical expertise, to use their devices immediately.
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:
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:
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."
Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM allows IT to maximize investments. It enables administrators to leverage existing processes by using SCCM as the single pane of glass to manage both PCs and Mac computers.
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