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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apple Business Essentials

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Apple Business Essentials is a subscription service that brings together device management, 24/7 support, and cloud storage. It enables small business to manage every iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TVs throughout the business.

    $8.25

    per device, per month

    Workspace ONE UEM

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AVMware acquired Airwatch in 2014. Now from Omnissa, Workspace ONE is a Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solution and is available in Standard, Advanced, Enterprise, and Advanced for VDI editions.

    $3.78

    per device/per month

    Pricing
    Apple Business EssentialsWorkspace ONE UEM
    Editions & Modules
    Fleetsmith Managed
    $8.25
    per device, per month
    Standard
    $3.78
    per device/per month
    Advanced
    $6
    per device/per month
    Enterprise
    $10
    per device/per month
    Enterprise for VDI
    $20
    per device/per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Apple Business EssentialsWorkspace ONE UEM
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFree unlimited trial for up to 10 devices Device Intelligence free for unlimited devices iOS/tvOS devices free during beta period
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    Community Pulse
    Apple Business EssentialsWorkspace ONE UEM
    Considered Both Products
    Apple
    Chose Apple Business Essentials
    By far the most intuitive and seamless experience to get set up with pricing that scales for our organization's needs.
    Incentivized
    Omnissa
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    60%
    Would buy again
    3 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Apple Business EssentialsWorkspace ONE UEM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (21 ratings)
    7.2
    (25 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (19 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (21 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Apple Business EssentialsWorkspace ONE UEM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apple
    I would recommend Apple Business Essentials manager to any organization that orders and uses iPads or iPhones on a large scale and wishes to manage them. Even if you do not intend on applying an MDM to your corporate Apple devices, it is nice for asset management and corporate application purchasing from a central location. If you do not care about any of those features, this functionality is not for you.
    Incentivized
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    Omnissa
    Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management is best suited for mid to large-size companies that require all the functions that it presents. It is a plus if you are well known with the VMWare "Horizon" ecosystem and use some of these solutions. It's to hard and resource intensive to setup and manage for small companies. Next to that it is to costly for only basic functionality compared to other solutions
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Apple
    • Ease of use to manage. Some other solutions can be a little hard to navigate. Fleetsmith is intuitive.
    • DEP Enrollment is really nice. If you are shipping a laptop out to the user you can set their password and when they turn on their computer they will have access.
    • Adding software to be pushed out. Pretty easy to do.
    Incentivized
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    Omnissa
    • Enrollment is a snap with many different options. This allows organizations with corporately owned or BYOD programs to bring devices under management in a flexible and scalable solution.
    • Deployment of apps-AirWatch makes deploying apps across your organization simple a quick.
    • AirWatch is usually close to "Zero Day" ready with major hardware manufacturers updated features. Many of the Android and iOS updated features are incorporated into the environments almost as soon as they are released.
    • AirWatch has great customer service. This was not always the case but as the company has grown over the last year in particular, I have been receiving better customer service compared to other MDMs.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Apple
    • We were told that this was in the works and it would be implemented at the beginning of the year 2019. That has still not happened and whenever we ask about this functionality we cannot get a good answer.
    • Management of devices that are already in the field—we were told that in order to use Fleetsmith as we would like (pushing apps to devices) we would have to get each device and set them up from a Mac.
    • Integration with Windows.
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    Omnissa
    • On-Premises solution is very slow compared to SAS and which is causing many issues while accessing emails on a device, server management, contacts sync issues, Reporting issue
    • AirWatch Inbox application was very buggy and created a lot of issue in our organization and it seems no one is happy with the performance AirWatch Inbox is giving.
    • It is very costly as per analysis provided by Gartner quadrant and for a small organization or for small user base it is not that much suitable.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apple
    No answers on this topic
    Omnissa
    We've used it for 3 years and our contract is up later this year. We own the licenses, but we would have to either renew cloud services or bring the services in-house and install on servers here. We may want to see what's new in the marketplace that could be just as useful and cost effective.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Apple
    The installation steps are very easy and the UI for admin panel is user-friendly. Enrolment all based on Gmail accounts and the import function is there to fetch the user accounts. Navigating in Fleetsmith admin panel is simple and clean.
    Incentivized
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    Omnissa
    It works well for our environment and what we're using it for. It actually does more than we're currently utilizing, but I believe our needs will change in the near future and we could utilize more features.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apple
    No answers on this topic
    Omnissa
    Just in the past few weeks our staff has had several issues with the website. It is either taking a long time to load anything or we are not able to get in at all. This is very frustrating when you are trying to manage and enroll users. It was down 2 days in a row just this past week. Not good!
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Apple
    No answers on this topic
    Omnissa
    Went over the availability just a minute ago on the last rating. Don't use the reporting too much but will likely begin that soon. Integration with Active Directory doesn't seem to bog either system down.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Apple
    Fantastic support. I have had a few queries on how to go about doing things in the best way and the support at Fleetsmith was always very quick to reply and with excellent advice and detail to solve the problem and lead is into our best use of their product.
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    Omnissa
    There is a separate portal for Workspace One + Chat function. The support is fast but sometime you need a little but luck that the right person is supporting your case. Case escalation is not really working.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apple
    No answers on this topic
    Omnissa
    AirWatch support was included and helped with every step of the implementation. They have their "university" with helpful documents and phone support 24x7.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apple
    The primary products we checked out were Mosyle, JAMF, and SimpleMDM. In the end it really came down to the simplicity of our needs and the simplicity of Fleetsmith's approach being in tight harmony. We kicked the tires, hard, for about a month and then dove all the way in.
    Incentivized
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    Omnissa
    Airwatch remains a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant and meets the data mobility needs of our organization. We are looking at moving to the cloud with Office365 and are evaluating the Intune/EMS/MAM/Rights Management suite. We have set up both Airwatch and Intune/EMS/MAM/Rights Management in a lab environment and have compiled some good comparison data and are looking to further evaluate these products. From our testing Airwatch has good integration with Office365 and is more feature rich and has more robust controls in both the MDM and Data Management/Security space. If someone is looking for a more simple solution without MDM and they are considering providing email and calendar access only Intune/MAM may be the way to go.
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    Scalability
    Apple
    No answers on this topic
    Omnissa
    It is really scalable. They love to have more users as you pay by the license. They are great in this regard.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Apple
    • Lesser cost for managing device, instead of getting more manpower to do it manually.
    • Lesser security threats (which will cause financial damage) as all devices are configured according the the company security policies, such as firewalls, media management, app security updates.
    Incentivized
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    Omnissa
    • Visibility of all support team, their location, apps installed on devices and security level, which guarantees information is secure.
    • Users don't have the time to be spending their telecom plans on apps that are not accepted for corporate use. So, this plans can be controlled and money saved.
    • Cost happens to be an OpEx one, and even though it is not visible in ROI, when you calculate how much money represents data leak, information lost, users not arriving to attend customers, and more. The cost is giving you a return on customer satisfaction and continuity.
    Incentivized
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