We performed a comparison between BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Suite and IBM MaaS360 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, JAMF, VMware and others in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)."While Microsoft Intune boasts a wide range of features, its user-friendliness and bundled licensing cost are key considerations for me."
"One of the main features of the solution is it allows the management of many devices in different ways."
"Agile and easy to deploy MDM solution that covers the maximum number of policies. Stable, scalable, and with knowledgeable technical support."
"The stability is good."
"The Microsoft Windows Autopilot and Defender policies are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Fortunately, now everything is streamlined into a single, unified platform."
"Maturity makes it a stable product."
"A great solution for anyone wanting a modern endpoint device management solution."
"It gives us the ability to have a container and the most secure possible application."
"We were able to utilize Android for Work-Premium in BlackBerry Android devices."
"The technical support for the solution is excellent."
"It was a big improvement to activate applications with one authentication. That was a big plus for the user experience."
"It keeps things secure, it can remotely wipe the container and it's fairly easy to use."
"It has allowed us to manage many different mobile device platforms, like Windows 10, Android, Apple, and BlackBerry 10, all through a single pane of glass."
"The containerization of the BlackBerry Dynamics is the most important thing for us. It allows us to keep personal and corporate data separate on a personal device. It allows us to wipe the corporate data while leaving all the personal data in place."
"We can access emails within the active sync."
"We've found the scalability to be very good."
"All features that we have deployed are useful. We do access office emails on our smartphones, and we have complete sync with Active Directory. Our calendar also gets synced in the MaaS360 application. We also ensure that the data from these official applications is not being misused by any of the employees. We have disabled cut, copy, paste, and all such features. It ensures that all the official data that our employees have on their smartphones is secure. Security is the paramount feature that we value in this product."
"The best feature is the ability to control mobile phones, wipe and containerize the data, and keep employees' work data separate from personal data."
"It can change policies based on geolocation or schedules."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Maas360 uses distribution groups to deploy apps, which makes it a bit easier than, for example, Intune."
"Asset management is the most valuable feature and integral for device inventory."
"The most valuable features of IBM MaaS360 are remote control and setting up a phone."
"Enhancements for managing MacOS more comprehensively would be beneficial."
"Additional application deployment options e.g. MSI deployment with more complex parameters or additional side-by-side files, and non-MSI deployment options."
"There is room for improvement, particularly in terms of compatibility, extending beyond the well-known major brands."
"I have a lot of Apple products in my environment. It would be nice to have an improved integration of Apple products with Microsoft Intune without Jam."
"I'm still playing around with it and haven't had any issues with the product yet, but support can definitely be improved."
"No option to do end-to-en macOS management. Slow implementation of policies."
"There is room for improvement in integration and security as well."
"They should make it easier to order it, however, that's generally true for everything from Microsoft."
"They could improve their QA. There are many times where something will be released, a new client will be released, and something gets broken. Or they do a release and they don't take into consideration how some people may be using parts of it. Even though it's supported, they release something and it breaks it because they weren't aware of it. The biggest thing for me right now is, I would like to see improvement in their QA. I'm tired of getting broken software."
"It's too difficult to manage ourselves. We have to get a third-party in to do that. The fact that it breaks on some end-users' devices is also a concern and just the frequency and complexity of upgrades is not ideal."
"I'd like there to be more in the core product rather than having to buy additional products. For example, being able to trace your devices after an emergency is an additional product you have to buy to do that properly."
"The pain points for us would be the activation."
"The entry level support needs improvement, but a lot of it has to do with the fact that we do not have premium support. Therefore, we have to go through Level 1 support for any issues."
"From the past to the present, before mobility location, we frequently required a restart."
"I would like to see better integration with our AD. Instead of having to use Active Directory groups, we'd like to use Active Directory attributes instead. There is a lot of overhead in managing. Whereas, if we could key on something tied to HR, or some other feed indicating who they are or what role they have, and manage them that way, that would be much preferable than having to manage people with Active Directory groups. Because, if people move roles, then we have to make sure that we move them from one Active Directory group to another, which is hands-on, a lot of overhead."
"We cannot integrate BlackBerry Edit from BlackBerry Enterprise. BlackBerry Edit has issues when we are editing any document. We have other internal applications that we can use for documents, but we cannot edit into BlackBerry Edit. There's room for improvement with editing documents."
"When we have MaaS360 installed on smartphones, it consumes the battery of the device at a much faster pace. This is one of the areas of improvement that I would like to highlight. We have also observed that in the contact list, a lot of duplication is happening. A single contact is duplicated three or four times, which also consumes more memory resources. If they can work on improving it for these aspects, it will have a more positive impact not only on the way the application is being consumed by the user but also on user satisfaction. A lot of new features are being deployed or rolled out by companies that are competitors of IBM MaaS360. IBM will have to ensure that all those features are on board so that we have a complete suite of features in the platform, rather than deploying multiple diverse solutions to cater to the requirements of our customers."
"An area for improvement would be handshaking with Microsoft in terms of trying to get a DLP on Microsoft OS."
"It's difficult for someone like me to set up a phone that doesn't require a SIM card, like Apple's new phones."
"Local technical support would be helpful."
"IBM MaaS360’s threat management feature needs improvement. It could identify even more malicious attacks."
"Sometimes IBM MaaS360 seems buggy...The solution's technical support team is sometimes slow to respond and not competent enough."
"IBM MaaS360 can improve the information provided for DLP control. Some of our customers would benefit from this."
"They should allow for the building of custom reports with graphics."
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BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Suite is ranked 17th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 1 review while IBM MaaS360 is ranked 8th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 12 reviews. BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Suite is rated 7.8, while IBM MaaS360 is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Suite writes "Helpful technical support, and performs well, but initial setup could be simplified". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM MaaS360 writes "It lets you separate work and personal data on mobile phones, but the interface is outdated and clunky". BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Suite is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, Ivanti Neurons for MDM and SOTI MobiControl, whereas IBM MaaS360 is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, SOTI MobiControl, IBM MobileFirst and Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM).
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