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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Intune
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Ranking in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
206
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (2nd), Remote Access (1st), Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (1st)
Samsung Knox
Ranking in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)
22nd
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sophos Mobile
Ranking in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) (6th)
 

Featured Reviews

Mike  Vande Woude - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 5, 2024
It helps consolidate our endpoints, proactively detect and remediate anomalies
Intune consolidates our endpoint and security management tools, providing a centralized solution for controlling security and ensuring compliance with the federal government, NIST, and ISO standards. This centralized control is crucial for maintaining a secure and compliant environment. Endpoint analytics help proactively detect and remediate anomalies on endpoints. We receive alerts from various detection devices, including biological, radiological, and mobile platforms. A common challenge with Bluetooth or similar technologies is maintaining connectivity, whether it's Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Additionally, we need to protect the Wi-Fi network itself. To address these security concerns, we often use proprietary connectivity protocols to ensure data integrity and prevent hacking, fraud, or unauthorized access. Intune's Cloud PKI helps us manage our current and historical actions. We can easily access recurring tasks and look for common problems, which is an important attribute of using the cloud service. For our benefit, Intune is very useful. However, the challenge is keeping it up to date and dealing with shift workers across different time zones. When deploying to the New York region, multiple fire and police departments use these devices. We maintain a database to track deployment status and device updates to ensure effective management. Devices unused for 90 days are suspended with the carrier to avoid higher fees for inactive devices. Although maintaining these devices can be challenging, we closely monitor them and collaborate with regional directors to ensure they are turned on at least every 90 days for automatic updates. We use the privilege management feature exclusively for points of contact or location managers. Due to the group's diversity and the inclusion of shift workers, these individuals require specific access from an identity management perspective. We only permit access in these designated areas. Intune saves costs for the federal government. One reason my employer switched to Intune was the integration of Intune with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Security.
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Jan 7, 2021
Complicated setup, poor tech support but some solid features
In terms of what could be improved, the initial configuration and setup of the environment could probably be made a little bit easier. There are so many pieces that go into it. Intune is absolutely insane and Sophos is better, but it still is a bit complex to get it all set up correctly because you need to have certain certificates for Apple in order for you to connect to their device. And then you've got to have policies for this and rules for that and it is very complicated. We eventually get there, but their wizards just keep asking you questions, "Well, I don't know what that is." It's like, "Why do I need that?" Or "Where does that come from?" It's just so much. I would like to have seen them, like several other packages I've seen, give you a set of basic rules and policies that most people use, so that in 10 minutes I could have the environment set up and have basic protection. For most of the mobile device management, you pop the box and you've got to figure out what your policy is going to be, what your rules are going to be, and what software are you going to use. Are you going to do the full phone or a container? You've got to go figure out all these things because nobody tells you anything. My experience is that even after reading manuals and trying to figure out what pieces of data go where, or checking the support website, then you go look at the wizard or the interface, and it's different. They described things differently. There's a piece of data that you need that's required that the documentation doesn't say that is supposed to go in there. And it just drives me insane when the documentation doesn't exactly match what I'm looking at on the screen.

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"The licensing costs we leave up to the customer and these vary from one to another."
"It's affordable. It's cheaper if you have an Office 365, E5, or E3 subscription because everything is there."
"Our enterprise agreement includes Microsoft Intune at no additional cost."
"We don't pay for Intune because it is bundled with the premium subscription to Office 365. It includes Intune and Defender. I don't have to buy two extra products to manage my enterprise."
"Microsoft Intune's pricing is reasonable."
"We don't get Intune as a separate module. Most of the time, we use it within an enterprise agreement like E3 or E5. Those licenses are at a good price, but what is annoying is that every single year they go higher."
"Licensing depends on how you are providing support to your enterprise, whether it's device-based or user-based."
"The purchase of the product was handled by someone else."
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"Sophos Mobile is inexpensive."
"The licensing is paid on a yearly basis."
"The product is not suitable for smaller companies because its price is high."
"The licensing fees are paid based on a one-year or two-year subscription."
"My company needs to make yearly payments for the licensing charges attached to the product."
"Apple is starting to do beta testing with their own solutions and for much cheaper than Sophos Mobile's price."
"It is a cost-effective solution."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
25%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
7%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Government
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
8%
Computer Software Company
22%
Construction Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

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What do you like most about Sophos Mobile?
I like the level of interaction that the product offers with the other products in our company's environment.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sophos Mobile?
I use the free version included in our subscription. There's another license with more features, and it's not really ...
What needs improvement with Sophos Mobile?
I have not faced any service issues. The known vulnerabilities have already been patched. So, I've heard that the app...
 

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