We performed a comparison between IBM MaaS360 and SOTI MobiControl based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The standout features of Intune are its excellent mobile device management and highly effective application management capabilities."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune."
"The most valuable feature of Intune is the central dashboard for compliance and policy management."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"The ability to switch between Affinity and non-Affinity enrollment is great."
"I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."
"While Microsoft Intune boasts a wide range of features, its user-friendliness and bundled licensing cost are key considerations for me."
"We have a BYOD policy, and this solution helps us manage our devices."
"Mobile Device Management, Secure Productivity Suite, and document management are valuable features."
"The tool's most valuable features are application, distribution, and security. It helps to block user access."
"It helped us reduce the number of support incidents by limiting users' access to device configurations."
"Remote enablement feature and access to internal resources on the VPN."
"It is a stable solution that functions twenty-four hours and seven days a week."
"One valuable feature is the ability to provide a secure environment. Another is the kiosk mode where MaaS360 can be used over a tablet or mobile device to ensure that a single application is used."
"It can change policies based on geolocation or schedules."
"The best feature is the ability to control mobile phones, wipe and containerize the data, and keep employees' work data separate from personal data."
"Among the valuable features are managing configurations of all devices and being able to remote into devices... We send out configurations for each site that has its devices. Each site has a different configuration, and SOTI manages each configuration for each site"
"The most valuable feature is the remote support because there are plants here where IT staff is not present. We can use it to provide support remotely."
"Also, although they're Apple products, we don't use the Find My iPhone feature because that would require us to use so many fake numbers or come up with a list of numbers. SOTI has been super-helpful in helping us track where an iPad is and knowing that we can remote-access it."
"The most valuable features are remote control and geo-fencing."
"SOTI's most valuable feature has to be mobile device management and visibility through the main console. There's a central dashboard that you can use to monitor the devices and keep track of usage, battery consumption, and battery life."
"The product provides us with information about the incidents. It helped us block specific devices remotely."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to deploy apps on the fly. We're able to update and deploy new applications, directly from the cloud. That's been a huge feature for us. Instead of putting hands on each of these devices - and we're talking thousands of devices - we can manage it all from the backend."
"We can do auto patch updates using SOTI. SOTI has been well placed in terms of the number of endpoints it can handle."
"The pricing can be expensive if you are not combining it with other products."
"It would help if administrators could pinpoint the exact location of a stolen device to help law enforcement retrieve it and apprehend the suspect."
"Microsoft Intune lags market leaders, such as Apperian, in its MAM capabilities."
"Due to the abundance of features, there's a lot to organize, which makes managing and setting up the solution challenging. The setup is immense, and it would be good to see improvement in this area."
"I would like the ability to install the agent on devices from suppliers, which would enable us to implement a zero-trust strategy for guest devices."
"They need to integrate more with security options."
"The solution could improve its flexibility."
"We haven't really gone through all the features of Intune. We are just discovering them. Every day, we see a new feature that we want to apply, but what will be great for Intune is to be able to deploy apps in a simple fashion. We should be able to easily install various apps on the Windows platform, iOS, and Android. Currently, we have to write some scripts. It's not as straightforward as we would like it to be. It should be simplified so that we can do it just with three clicks—next, next, finish—without needing to write a script."
"It would be ideal to add support for the distribution of windows.exe applications."
"The price could be lower."
"We had a problem with Microsoft computers. If you downloaded emails on a Microsoft Windows Surface PC, that would also require a license. The Outlook application didn't look great for us on a PC."
"Local technical support would be helpful."
"User interface is basic and not very intuitive."
"They should allow for the building of custom reports with graphics."
"We opted to go with Microsoft Intune because it just seemed to be a more mature and comprehensive enterprise solution, whereas IBM MaaS360 didn't seem to have the necessary breadth to manage all of our equipment. Along with laptops, I've had some BYODs. IBM MaaS360 just didn't seem as mature in our assessment."
"The interface is clunky and the layout is a bit outdated. Also, I don't think MaaS360 has as many features as Intune. It doesn't integrate with Office as seamlessly as Intune does, which isn't surprising, given that Intune and Office are Microsoft products."
"SOTI MobiControl is very good for Android and Windows, but it should add a little bit on the Apple side because it doesn't have much control on the Apple side."
"The main feature that we would like to have with Soti is the ability to push an iOS update without having people come to my office. That is the main reason why we went with Soti. And that feature is not working on my version."
"I wish that I had some more tutorials and educational resources on how to use the product."
"There is room for improvement in the support."
"Maybe if there were tiers, it would be better as then companies could lower the pricing by going to the lower deployment model."
"The product’s features for managing Windows devices need improvement."
"The documentation could be improved in SOTI MobiControl."
"Companies like SOTI and Mobile Iron are working with Google to help them manage these devices and eliminate the use of bar code scanner sales and mobile device sales. That's kind of crazy."
IBM MaaS360 is ranked 8th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 34 reviews while SOTI MobiControl is ranked 5th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 46 reviews. IBM MaaS360 is rated 7.8, while SOTI MobiControl is rated 8.2. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SOTI MobiControl writes "Provides enterprise mobility and remote control mobile device management". IBM MaaS360 is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, IBM MobileFirst, Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM) and ManageEngine Endpoint Central, whereas SOTI MobiControl is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, 42Gears SureMDM, Jamf Pro, ManageEngine Endpoint Central and Scalefusion. See our IBM MaaS360 vs. SOTI MobiControl report.
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