We performed a comparison between IBM MaaS360 and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, JAMF, VMware and others in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)."The solution has reduced the risk of security breaches by 30%."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"Microsoft's cloud comes with a lot of extra features that are free of charge."
"Autopilot is a great feature. Most users are looking for a zero-touch deployment."
"Stable product that's easy to set up compared to other MDM products."
"The solution is easy to use and it has good performance."
"The stability of Microsoft Intune is good."
"Users can make screenshots, and devices only need the minimal version of iOS."
"The implementation phase of IBM MaaS360 was pretty easy."
"It can change policies based on geolocation or schedules."
"It allows us to have an updated inventory of all the devices in real-time with the ability to add personalized information."
"My customers value the ability to control all their devices from a central point in IBM MaaS360."
"The solution is easy to implement."
"The most valuable features are mobile device management and security (which allows you to quarantine infected devices)."
"Using this solution has made things more convenient. Earlier, we had to depend a lot more on IT to find and resolve our issues."
"Remote enablement feature and access to internal resources on the VPN."
"Xamarin.Forms reduced the effort and time to build and market our solution, market our features, and get our solution into production."
"Their leadership is exceptional at both listening to the customer base and delivering innovative, best-in-class products."
"Xamarin makes it easy to create white label applications for all platforms."
"We were able to optimize the service organization for one of our clients."
"The most valuable feature of the Xamarin Platform is that both the UI are the same in Android and iOS, in one project and Android and iOS, are applications for developing PCL projects. Additionally, the dashboard is good."
"The most valuable features are: One language for all platforms: C#; XAML for UI in Xamarin.Forms; provides 100 percent coverage of APIs on each platform."
"It allows us to reuse our knowledge of C# and .NET Framework."
"Xamarin is well-integrated with Visual Studio so it will feel very familiar to you once you start."
"The reports that are generated aren't so great. They don't give a lot of meaning so far, but that could be down to user knowledge than the actual reporting side of things. I'm not a big user of it, but I was a bigger user of MaaS360, and we used to be able to run weekly and monthly reports. In the case of any deviations. we'd get a warning immediately. That's not so easy to do or to get in place for Intune. This could be just a user issue, but when I compare both, that's the only thing that's lacking for me."
"A new Intune feature allows application packaging, but it incurs additional licensing costs for a significant number of applications."
"There are a few security features that are not available in Microsoft Intune, when compared to other products."
"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."
"For an existing customer who has an SCCM, it would need to be upgraded to an MECM first before I can introduce Microsoft Intune."
"The configuration could be better by consolidating options and making it simpler."
"The mobile and tablet-based versions need improvement because they are not completely user-friendly, compared to the web version. Also, data synchronization with our existing asset manager, the synchronization between multiple assets and multiple devices, takes a lot of time due to the security scanning. It should be reduced."
"There are a lot of small use cases where we realized that some technical solution was missing in Microsoft in comparison to other products. For example, it lacks something similar to sensing or location-based rules and configurations."
"The product needs to improve tech support."
"IBM MaaS360 can improve the information provided for DLP control. Some of our customers would benefit from this."
"The user interface could definitely use some improvement."
"The look needs to be updated and it could be simpler to use."
"The reporting and alerting could be improved."
"Zero day support is something they can work on. They can make it a little bit more user-friendly."
"IBM MaaS360’s threat management feature needs improvement. It could identify even more malicious attacks."
"The solution needs to offer live technical support. Right now, it's just a chat window and it's rather unhelpful."
"It would be better if they offered more certifications. They offer a number of certifications for Azure but none for Xamarin. This is something that could be provided for developers to show off their competency. Technical support could be better."
"Xamarin Platform's performance base could be improved."
"Xamarin Platform can improve by making the enterprise documentation better. There's a lot of basic documentation of how to do many of the functions of the solution, but there's not much enterprise-level documentation."
"Xamarin's profiling tools are only available for the highest tier of MSDN subscription and compatibility with platform-native profiling tools is rather lacking. This causes friction when working on performance-related issues."
"They need to improve performance, especially for the Android platform. Also, some controls are missing in the Xamarin framework when compared to native controls; for example, the checkbox control."
"The application platform could be improved."
"The debugging functionality could be improved in Xamarin Platform because sometimes it takes very long to move through the stages of setting up the application build to the final deployment on a mobile app that resides in a physical device."
"For beginners, the entire setup can be overwhelming because it involves setting up development environments for iOS, Android, and Windows at the same time if you want to target all three."
IBM MaaS360 is ranked 8th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 34 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 6th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. IBM MaaS360 is rated 7.8, while Xamarin Platform 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 Xamarin Platform writes "It's about to be retired and replaced with an inferior product, but offers excellent cross-platform development capabilities". IBM MaaS360 is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, SOTI MobiControl, IBM MobileFirst and Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM), whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Appium, Ionic, OutSystems, Apple Xcode and Mendix.
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