With Jamf, it's Easy!
What do you like best about the product?
Jamf Pro has been a wonderful tool in helping with the administration, deployment, and management of our devices!
What do you dislike about the product?
Jamf requires many certificate renewals making it hard to administrate, manage, and apply patches while keeping these up to date.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Porblems with remote learning, course app deployment and distribution and he management and ability to recoup devices.
JAMF is a necessity for large work environments
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you can control as many Apple devices as needed. Great for inventory purposes.
What do you dislike about the product?
It could be a little more user-friendly. Although, it doesn't take long to learn
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is greatly helping me with our inventory. I'm able to keep track of all the machines we have
Simple, powerful, highly scalable, and best-of-breed
What is our primary use case?
It's used for package deployment, security patching, and zero-day vulnerability patching. It is also used for reporting and provisioning new machines into the enterprise.
It is primarily in the cloud. Most companies are migrating Jamf to the cloud. They're trying to get rid of their on-prem instances, and Jamf prefers that as well.
What is most valuable?
It is a great tool. Its ease of use is fantastic. It is very simple, and you don't really have a high learning curve with this.
It is a very powerful tool, and there is so much that you can do with it.
What needs improvement?
There should be an option for exporting the data for reporting purposes so that we can give that to the higher-ups, such as CIO. We should be able to see bar graphs and charts on different data points. It would be great to have a good reporting tool to look at, for example, data points of how many versions of Adobe Acrobat we have in our environment in a bar graph or pie chart. They don't have anything like that. There is an application called Tableau Reader, which does statistics, and you can put a statistical or analytical aspect in there to extract data and share it on a graph or a pie chart. Such a tool would be great.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using it for over 15 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's very stable. There's no issue that I can see.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's highly scalable. You can have 10,000 clients.
It's used on a daily basis. We have 700 users on one and 1,500 users on the other. We also have about 200 users on another. There are about 3,000 machines.
How are customer service and support?
They are good. They are very accessible. I would rate them a five out of five.
How was the initial setup?
It was pretty straightforward once you're in the cloud. I see it from both ends. I was the one who could set up Jamf in the cloud for clients, and now, I'm on the other end having them doing it. I can just jump and set it up on my side. It takes about five minutes or less.
In terms of maintenance, if you have a good engineer, you don't really need a lot of support. I've supported over a thousand by myself.
What was our ROI?
A good ROI is the end-user community in which everything becomes more stable and you can provide a self-service feature where you can put the latest applications available within your enterprise, on something like an internal portal for software distribution, for the end-users to download. This way, you have more user empowerment, and you also have more stability in the enterprise regarding updates and patches. There are also fewer issues. If the end-user has a problem, you can use Jamf Remote to remote in and take care of that issue then and there.
It provides ease of use. The ROI is the end-user experience. Jamf is all about the end-user experience, making sure that they're happy with the product and things of that nature.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I've looked at different solutions. KMG was one, and Fleetsmith was another, which was bought by Apple. There was also Blackberry. So, I have looked at all the other ones, and this tool is the best. It is very simplistic and easy to use without a high learning curve.
What other advice do I have?
You have to make sure you have a good engineer who knows how to use the tool, and you're off to the races.
It is a very powerful tool, and you can do so much with it. Therefore, you'd have to figure out:
- What does success look like?
- What is your end goal?
- What do you want to achieve?
- Why do you want to use Jamf Pro?
- What is your use case?
Once you have an idea of what you really want to do, it's very easy to execute that. Some people flounder when they get a tool like this because they have no idea what they want. The best thing is to keep it simple and then build upon a good, sound foundation of simplicity. That's what I've found out. If you jump into using this tool and want it all at once, you might get a little overwhelmed.
I would rate it a 10 out of 10. As compared to any of the others, it is best-of-breed.
Great companion to Jamf Pro MDM
What do you like best about the product?
Integration with Jamf Pro makes it simple to monitor and deploy
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing in particular. Jamf keeps up to date with new OS releases and emerging threats
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've been able to improve our adherence to CIS standards
Amazing tool for Mac management
What do you like best about the product?
We can manage our staff's computers almost 100% using Jamf: software installation, updates, OS updates, security settings and more. If you can script it on a Mac you can package that and deploy it to thousands of devices in just a few clicks. Self Service provides the level of user-based options: other software, maintenance scripts, and more. Some specific examples:
-allow staff to turn on FileVault in self service
-remote lock computers if lost or stolen
-add user accounts remotely
-help users get into account if they loose their password.
-deploy new software
-update existing software
-create local scripts that are available in Self Service to perform unique functions: clean up file names to be Windows compatible, run basic housekeeping scripts for macOS, enable or disable settings on the fly.
There is also an active user community that is very helpful. The official Jamf Nation as well as other ad-hoc groups on Slack and elsewhere.
The people at Jamf are also very good to work with. I have never spoken with anyone who was not professional and friendly. Great people and great product.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does require someone who is pretty well versed in Mac management and Jamf. It does not have simple one-click setups for most functions. You do need to build it out and spend time learning the product. However, once you get there it is largely set and forget.
This is not a tool for non-technical people. There is a cost and technical hill to climb, but for those who need excellent Mac management, it is the right tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Give staff the software and security they need. It helps us prevent staff from doing foolish things or even innocent mistakes that can have huge consequences for our organization. It also greatly simplifies deployment of new computers (upgrades or new staff). some specifics:
-prevent installation of malware or "potentially unwanted programs"
-make sure devices are encrypted
-forgotten passwords
-give users the access they need but not Admin access
Some of the benefits:
-no more malware installs
-users are not locked out of their computer when they forget their password.
-software is ketp up to date
-optional software is added by the user
-reduced tickets and IT support
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't be intimidated by the set up and roll-out. It is well worth it, but come prepared to learn. If you need to, hire someone to help get you set up with some of the basics in the right way. Once you get that done you are able to manage what is there.
great software, great community
What do you like best about the product?
time saving, more security, great support and great community
What do you dislike about the product?
difficult start for MDM newcomers, but with the training offered it is doable
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
patch management, closing security gaps, daily support, software rollout
Easy, Modular, just the right way
What do you like best about the product?
Migration of accounts away from mobile accounts and binding to accounts that are softly bout with Azure in our case is the best thing ever! With the ability to change the looks aswell this is a verry cool thing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sadly it is not possible to use Jamf Connect Login for a login before the filevault2 unlock.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Account Creation and Account migration is the two big things we use it for. Having a login from the user of the device aswell gives us confidence in who is using the device :)
Jamf Pro is where it's at! If you’re an Apple Admin!
What do you like best about the product?
This is the flagship solution that you're looking forI like the fact that I can manage my entire Apple environment all in one place.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't anything I dislike about Jamf Pro. Maybe a few UI flows could stand to be redesigned, but other than that, it's solid.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can only imagine how difficult it would be to manage our Apple environment without Jamf Pro.
Jamf pro has made my job easier
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to easily see inventory of the computers in our environment and to get a snapshot of the systems that need to be updated with new software updates and OS updates
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I dislike is it would be on me not utilizing it to it's full potential
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The direct tie-in with Apple's DEP make it a breeze to be able to send out a brand new device and have it automatically enroll into our JAMF instance. MDM could not have been easier
Jamf Pro, best of the best in Apple Device Management
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ease of use and the scalability. Anything you want to manage, as long as Apple has allowed it for 3rd party vendors, you can! It should be the first tool of any Mac Admin! It's a top-tier MDM solution with an even better support team!
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not much to say here. Setup and management are simple, and use is intuitive. The development team is pretty good at being on top of feature requests, but a couple would be lovely if implemented (configuration profile installation logs, for example).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The largest problem we are solving is device management at the K-12 level. Jamf Pro is able to keep our devices managed, safe, and running smoothly throughout the school year.
