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[Community tips] What to consider when choosing an enterprise mobility management solution?
- First of all note down a (long) list what you expect the EMM should do/cover
- Look around which MDM's are available and request from some chosen ones to the developers a comparing list, to see which expectations could be met.
- Consider if an EMM is already available to you (Intune for exampe if you are a Microsoft house depending on the licensing etc.) but keep in mind to compare it's functionality as well with the competitors.
- Also consider if additional sotware/licenses are needed (to ensure for example a remote control possibility).
- Compare pricing and arrange some Demo-Tests.
- Have a final decision because of the findings and pricing.
Some points to take into concideration:
- availability of Cloud service or on-prem (depending of what you prefer)
- how fast do changes take place on the devices if you do them in the EMM
- remote control availability
- user friendly UI
- user management (EntraID integration?)
- pricing of course (normally cost/device lowers with enhancing amount of devices)
- product support (and maybe additional costs here for extended support)
- does it cover all OS you need to maintain (maybe Apple, MAC, MS, Linux or others)
- additional licenses needed for servers or software (which could also generate more costs)
- ...
Wow Moombas, what an amazing list of tips, thank you for taking the time to share these.
Did you set yourself a set time period to cover this research? How long would you imagine this might take? I suppose it depend a lot on your needs and requirements.
Hi Lizzie,
this was more like a "quick and dirty" list.
There are for sure things missing but i think in general should cover the main part.
As we have done this only once and based on other facts (we had an EMM already in place in another part of the company and choosed that one than to be the one for entire company).
We still have some (all the time) on a list but i think for the first choose, you have a longer process than if you consider to change it as you then look different on the things you need and already have some experiences to benefit from.
