Google Cloud Identity vs Jamf Pro comparison

Google and JAMF are both solutions in the Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) category. Google is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.8, while JAMF is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.0. Google holds a 1.5% mindshare in EMM, compared to JAMF’s 9.2% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of JAMF users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

Jamf Pro and Google Cloud Identity are prominent in device and identity management. Jamf Pro is favored for its Apple-specific controls, while Google Cloud Identity stands out in Google Workspace integration, offering an advantage where Google services are extensively used.

Features: Jamf Pro offers automated device enrollment, extensive management features for Apple devices, and deep reporting capabilities. Google Cloud Identity provides multi-factor authentication, seamless Google Workspace integration, and straightforward user management.

Room for Improvement: Jamf Pro could enhance cross-platform support, UI efficiency, and overall user experience. Google Cloud Identity may benefit from better integration with non-Google services, improved mobile device support, and enhanced third-party app compatibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Jamf Pro provides a simple deployment process for Apple devices and robust customer service. Google Cloud Identity offers easy setup within Google ecosystems but may lack comprehensive customer service guidance.

Pricing and ROI: Jamf Pro's pricing reflects its extensive controls and features, resulting in positive ROI. Google Cloud Identity is cost-effective for Google-centric organizations, offering a strong ROI due to its integration and lower initial costs.

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Microsoft Intune

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) category, the mindshare of Microsoft Intune is 25.5%, down from 34.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud Identity is 1.5%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jamf Pro is 9.2%, down from 12.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Intune	25.5%
Jamf Pro	9.2%
Google Cloud Identity	1.5%
Other	63.8%

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)

Featured Reviews

AkashKamble

Sr MacOS specialist engineer at Cyber24

Enables management of multiple operating systems with a single license

The best feature is that it's a Microsoft product, so if anything goes wrong, we get quick support for anything required. Remote system functionality allows us to sit anywhere and take control of any device via remote management. We can enhance security for clients' laptops with built-in Microsoft Defender, which is available with the Microsoft Intune license. We use it for reporting purposes through endpoint analytics. When pushing scripting, there are two types available: remediation script and reservation script. Through endpoint analytics, you can push defender policies to clients. It helps with reporting, inventory updates, and monitoring tenant status health.

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Bhushan Ladkhedkar

Head - Work Transformation at Econz

User lifecycle management becomes streamlined with unified access and context-aware policies

If applications support SAML protocols, integration is always an easy task. However, there are difficulties with form-based applications or LDAP-based applications, particularly traditional applications. We need more flexibility not only with SAML but also with LDAP-based and form-based applications. Context-aware access currently only works with SAML-based applications. If other application integrations could support context-aware access, that would be helpful, as companies are in a transition mode with various traditional, form-based, and LDAP-based applications. Mobile device management could be improved. Through Google Cloud Identity, we can manage Android applications and have control over iOS devices, but container functionality is missing. This is particularly important for BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) scenarios, especially in India where the market is now split equally between iOS and Android users. Improvements in this area and integration capabilities would be beneficial.

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Mohd Javed Khan

Lead Senior Consultant at Truglobal

Has supported centralized management of all Apple devices while ensuring high security and compliance

I have not encountered many areas for improvement, but there are feature requests submitted to Jamf Pro for reporting purposes that they are working on. Jamf Pro continues to increase its capabilities. One improvement I would recommend is integrating Jamf Setup Manager as an inbuilt feature. Currently, it is a separate tool that needs to be installed and integrated with Jamf Pro. Having zero-touch capability as an inbuilt feature would eliminate the need to work with scripts and configurations. The pricing of Jamf Pro is relatively high. Jamf Pro does not have a fixed price for all organizations. Based on my experience, they offer discounts inconsistently. Due to the high pricing, many organizations are moving to InTune and Workspace ONE. There are many other tools in the market for Mac OS device management, such as ScaleFusion, Addigy, and Kandji. Small organizations are moving to these alternatives, and larger organizations with fewer security concerns are moving to InTune. Despite being expensive, I still rate Jamf Pro highly because of its security features and comprehensive management capabilities for Mac OS devices.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"With these improvements, I estimate we've reduced our patching costs by over $100,000 a month, as the MSP previously had to troubleshoot various issues manually."

"Our configuration profiles used to be all over the place. For example, there's a lot of legacy stuff in Active Directory. Going through Intune has helped us enforce settings, which has improved device security and functionality. When you apply something through Intune, you know it works. You don't have to worry about a legacy setting from Active Directory that was uploaded by somebody seven years ago. With Intune, you can see that a device has a setting, and you can be confident that the device is configured how you want."

"Microsoft Intune is extremely important from a security perspective to ensure devices are compliant and gives us the efficiency to deploy apps automatically to a large number of users without the need for interaction from a client side, which is always helpful."

"The feature I find most valuable in Microsoft Intune is being able to configure policies and push them directly to mobile phones."

"I rate Intune 10 out of 10."

"The feature that we can deploy policies and configuration settings and it will be applied to every user who is connected to it around the world just with an internet connection is very good."

"One of the biggest advantages of Microsoft Intune is not only the management itself, but also how well it integrates with other Microsoft technologies."

"The solution is scalable, and we currently have tens of thousands of users within our organization using the solution."

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"Everything is relatively good and overall, the product itself is good."

"Google Cloud Identity uses what they call organizational units (OUs) instead of the security groups you'd find in Microsoft's Entra."

"The solution is moderate to difficult to use. I found the approach was practical. Following the steps made it very easy to use."

"The main control page and the ability to manage all our users from a web-based portal are the most valuable aspects of the solution. That's particularly useful because we're a heterogeneous network."

"I think the first thing that is great is that it gives you a lot of features, like login, and then vaulted passwords and secure LDAP. It becomes easier for the end customer to leverage all those features without going to a higher SKU of G Suite."

"Although we have not looked at the whole product and explored it completely, we find that all the authentication features that we are using now are valuable."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The most valuable feature is the performance."

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"It gives us the flexibility to offer near zero-touch deployment when onboarding employees remotely and allows us to standardize our policies organization-wide."

"Jamf Pro has improved my organization because I can have all my computers up to date on certain software, and it's very convenient for me."

"It's the best Mobile Device Management on the market for Apple devices in my opinion."

"The product is about 100% stable."

"It has made me much more efficient in my job by reducing the time needed to spend on tasks."

"It has completely enabled us to have a remote deployment solution for our users across the globe, as well as full management of the devices like we've never had before."

"I'm now starting to package up software to deploy to our Macs remotely."

"Jamf has helped us manage all our devices even remote users that are located in Europe or the States (we're in Canada) it also has helped us have the ability to push security updates and standardize all of our Mac computers in our environment."

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Cons

"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."

"I think there should be a better tracking of the cell phones used on the Intune."

"The synchronization of devices takes a significant amount of time, between 15 minutes and two hours. Microsoft should work on reducing this sync time to improve efficiency."

"Intune could add more features that are relevant to the core application control functions. For example, it would be helpful if it had more control over the on-prem environment from the cloud platform. Greater Teams availability in the Saudi market would also be helpful."

"However, in Microsoft Intune that is not possible because Microsoft releases it across the world as one data piece."

"Microsoft support was not very responsive, and it took approximately one and a half months to get on a call to clear what the problem was."

"Packages on different identity provider platforms that are not supported present challenges for package installation."

"They need to integrate more with security options."

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"The management of external users needs to be introduced in the tool as it is an area of concern in the tool presently."

"We cannot manage the attributes of SSPR."

"I want the tool to improve its support. It should also incorporate some functionalities. Currently, preparing presentations in Google is a pain point. The tool’s certain features like user provisioning are not intuitive as well. The product’s LDAP support is very poor. Clients do not trust the product due to the spam."

"They are going ahead and adding a few more things to the Google Cloud premium edition. Their stock management and remote computer management can be improved."

"If I were to suggest enhancements, it would mainly revolve around ensuring compatibility and maximizing integration options with various services."

"Google Cloud Identify could make the technology used easier to understand as a layman making it more user-friendly."

"The interface could be more user-friendly."

"In the next release, I would like to see integration with different systems, mainly wireless SIEMS and other analytical systems that we want to introduce."

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"Jamf should give the option to download individual device policy logs, as this capability would really help to diagnose issues."

"Jamf Pro currently is only used on Mac computers and could improve by having compatibility with other operating systems. We have to use other tools to manage our Windows and Android devices. There could be other improvements but I am still exploring and learning more about the features."

"This solution would benefit from more focus on Self Service, such as Office 365 and GSuite integration."

"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."

"The dashboard needs to be customizable."

"The ability to ask a device to run a policy regularly would be a real advantage."

"Pricing needs to be better for smaller businesses who need cloud-based products over on-premise solutions."

"A more modern UI in the next release will make the product absolutely perfect."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our Office 365 Business Premium license, including Office 365 and Intune Management, offers excellent value."

"There is a cost benefit of using Microsoft Intune because of the packaging with other Microsoft products."

"While I don't have access to high-level financial information, I believe we have achieved lower costs with this implementation."

"It's a bit expensive from a licensing perspective, especially as we look to have organizations with tenants across the globe."

"Existing E5 license holders for M365, Intune, and Azure, receive a free license."

"Intune comes with the licensing that is common for large organizations. However, Microsoft has recently released many add-ons that are very expensive, especially for large organizations or corporations."

"There is a license needed for this solution and it is either included in one of the enterprise license agreements. Microsoft licensing is a mathematical institute, it could be quite complex. We tend to ask specialized organizations to research what the most profitable way it would be for us to use licenses in the organizations."

"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."

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"We probably spend about $50,000 a year on licensing."

"When I worked on Cloud Identity, they offered a free or enterprise version. You can synchronize and create up to 100 user identities in the free version. After that, you have to purchase a business or enterprise license. In that model, you'll be charged based on the number of users."

"The pricing is a bit expensive."

"I rate the product price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

"Licensing fees are on a yearly basis."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"The fees are paid monthly and there are no additional costs other than the licensing fees."

"The solution is not expensive."

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"I know that as a school we get a discounted price, which is good because without it we would not be able to afford it."

"We have signed a licensing contract for three years. There is an option to buy an annual license subscription, but we opted for three years as it came with a 25% or 30% discount."

"The only thing that is kicking us a bit is the rand to the dollar exchange rate. It is priced in dollars. Every time the rand goes worse, it just costs more. I would rate it a four out of five in terms of pricing because it is very unpredictable because of the rand to the dollar exchange rate."

"The price of a training pass for five people was $18,000 USD."

"The setup cost is in the training, which is the most important step of your journey."

"The cost of any licensing is certainly outweighed by the time saved from manually managing Apple devices."

"This is a pricey solution."

"The setup is pricey upfront for support and setup."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Government

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

11%

Media Company

10%

Computer Software Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	126
Midsize Enterprise	55
Large Enterprise	168

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	37
Midsize Enterprise	41
Large Enterprise	64

Questions from the Community

How does Microsoft Intune compare with VMware Workspace One?

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What are the pros and cons of Microsoft Intune?

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How does Google Cloud Identity compare with Microsoft Intune?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Cloud Identity?

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What needs improvement with Google Cloud Identity?

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What is your primary use case for Google Cloud Identity?

We are using Google Cloud Identity for application development.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jamf Pro?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Jamf Pro was good compared to other service providers.

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What needs improvement with Jamf Pro?

I would still say that Jamf Pro's automated patch management requires development and improvement. Patch deployment c...

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My main use cases for Jamf Pro involve it being the greatest MDM solution for Apple devices, whether iOS, macOS, or t...

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Comparisons

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Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Cloud Identity, Cloud Identity Premium

JAMF Software Casper Suite

Overview

Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based service designed for device management, security, and compliance. It supports automation and facilitates endpoint management for Windows, iOS, and Android devices, ensuring data protection and efficient policy enforcement.

Microsoft Intune offers seamless integration with tools like Windows Autopilot to automate device setup and deployment. Integrated with Azure Active Directory, it enhances policy management while providing robust reporting and analytics tools for compliance tracking. Despite its intuitive interface aimed at simplifying navigation and device security management, there are challenges such as compatibility issues with Linux and Mac, limited policy support for Android, and demands for better third-party integration. It's widely used for both corporate-owned devices and BYOD scenarios in dynamic IT environments.

What are the key features of Microsoft Intune?

Windows Autopilot: Automates device setup for rapid deployment.
Azure Active Directory Integration: Enhances user policy management.
Reporting and Analytics: Improves compliance visibility.
Mobile Application Management: Ensures app security without compromising personal data.
Cloud-Based Management: Allows management from any location.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Time Efficiency: Automation reduces time in policy enforcement and configuration updates.
Enhanced Security: Ensures data protection across corporate-owned and BYOD devices.
Improved Compliance: Advanced reporting tools enhance compliance visibility.
Flexible Management: Cloud-based nature supports management from any location.

In industries such as finance and healthcare, Microsoft Intune is implemented to ensure data protection and compliance with regulatory standards. Manufacturing sectors utilize Intune for managing a distributed workforce across global locations, while educational institutions employ it to secure and manage devices in learning environments supporting both students and faculty.

Microsoft

Cloud Identity is an Identity as a Service (IDaaS) and enterprise mobility management (EMM) product. It offers the identity services and endpoint administration that are available in G Suite as a stand-alone product. As an administrator, you can use Cloud Identity to manage your users, apps, and devices from a central location - the Google Admin console.

Google

Jamf Pro is a mobile device management software designed to help organizations and businesses automate Apple device handling-related workflows and processes. It features zero-touch deployment that enables users to automatically enroll new Apple devices, and also configure and deploy these devices swiftly and efficiently. It comes with inventory management capabilities, Apple mobile device management features, and an enterprise app store. Jamf Pro also allows users to deploy and access their mobile apps licenses in bulk. When it comes to using the app store, end users don’t need to ask for assistance from helpdesk agents in order to download, install, and update applications.

Jamf Pro Features

Jamf Pro has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Zero-touch deployment
Management of Apple devices
Security for app devices
App Store for self-service enterprise
Smart targeting
Reports of inventory
Smart Groups
Preconfiguration of apps
App distribution
Mac imaging
Upgrades to app and OS
Management of IT inventory
Device enrollment (user initiated)
Purchasing & license management

Jamf Pro Benefits
There are many benefits to implementing Jamf Pro. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Deployment: Fully-customizable onboarding experience. Provision the perfect Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV, all deployed seamlessly with the workflow of your choice.

Device management: Use configuration profiles, scripts, and policies to make your Apple devices function exactly as needed. Move beyond simple troubleshooting by automating management with patented Smart Groups technology. This is a powerful way to trigger real-time alerts and actions from inventory data.

Application management: Streamline app management with bulk purchasing and deployment. The solution integrates with Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager, allowing you to assign apps to users or devices without Apple ID. Deploy apps from the App Store, B2B App Store, or your own in-house apps.

Apple device security: Protect Apple devices by leveraging native security features. Manage device settings and configurations, restrict malware and patch all of your Apple devices without user interaction.

Self-service access: Give your users access to a one-stop shop for trusted apps, company resources, and shortcuts for troubleshooting tasks like password resets.

Inventory: Automatically gather user, hardware, software, and security device data or customize inventory specifications. The dynamic Smart Groups feature keeps track of everything for you, including software versions and warranty expiration dates.

Reviews from Real Users

Jamf Pro stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its app deployment, its easy installation, and the fact that it’s lightweight but powerful. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

An IT Support Specialist at Visby Medical writes, “The first most valuable feature I found was the ability to simply push out applications to devices, Mac or iPads/iPhones. It's as easy as procuring the licensing for the apps and then setting it to the volume purchasing back in Jamf.”

Another reviewer, a Desktop Engineer at Kroger, notes, “The self-service portal to share scripts and other tasks that have extremely minimized the need for calls to our support teams, or even sharing the applications we package and allowing users to pick and choose what apps they need or want, instead of just blanket installing everything from our old environment.”

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Sample Customers

Mitchells and Buzzers, Callaway

ExtraHop Networks, HealthChannels

Xero, National Geographic, Oxford University, Via, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Fallon, Cabela's

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