Jamf Pro Reviews

Easy management of Apple devices such as patch management, internal self-service portal & many more.                                                                                                

Using Jamf Pro makes us complaint-free & keeps our devices up to date.

The most valuable feature is the self-service, which lets users install their preferred application instead of installing all applications and filling the machine with junk.

It would be great if we get an email notification when the Mac users install any apps, so IT can be alerted.                                                      

I have been using Jamf Pro for more than two years.

We evaluated other products but for apple devices, Jamf provides complete end-user and IT experiences.

We evaluated AirWatch & Cisco Meraki.

We use this solution to manage over seven thousand iPads, three hundred and fifty Apple TV’s and eighteen hundred computers, with one wonderful system. We push apps out and have control over systems that you otherwise would not have.  During the Covid 19 quarantine, it became invaluable to our school district.  

With so many devices and such a small technical staff to support them, we needed a tool that allows us to minimize tech issues. This tool allows us to push apps to student devices and teacher computers, lock down missing devices, and push an alarm to a misplaced device. All excellent tools to have in your belt for day to day operations.  

The most valuable feature is the ability to manage all devices through Apple's DEP and forcing them into Jamf pre-stage enrollment. This is a crucial step in our device deployment process.

I wish there was a profile that could be created for configuring Apple software updates on a global basis for our devices, via a configuration profile.

More than five years.

This is a very stable platform.

It is highly scalable.  

They have awesome tech support.  In fact it is the best I have ever experienced.

In my highly secure government infrastructures, Jamf is an absolute must for staying in tune with continuous monitoring (critical patching, STIG application, and reporting), especially from a central location.

When we were in pursuit of our authority to operate, we were almost shut down by a Windows-specific IA group until I explained what Jamf was and how it would help implement and prove how secure Macs can be. After that, it was a requirement for our ATO to even be considered, much less approved. 

I am now able to easily manage all of my systems and patch when necessary, with little to no interruptions to the customer. It has saved me tons of time, as well as the IA team when I gave them rights for reporting.

Jamf Pro has helped me educate a Windows-centric agency with an Information Assurance team that is also strictly experienced with Windows. Everyone was fearful of Macs and their integration into a Windows infrastructure and domain. Jamf Pro’s similarities to Microsoft’s SCCM for Windows assets helped me prove that Macs can be as useful, if not more than Windows in some cases, and very easy to secure and keep secure, even with major upgrades. 

The Smart Groups have been very beneficial for quick reporting when a critical, out of cycle patch is required.

Reporting is obviously an essential tool for any Information Assurance team and if I couldn’t provide it with Jamf, it would have been a show stopper. It is able to provide quick, dynamic, and accurate reports that helped put my department on the map within our agency and other DoD agencies nationwide.

It has allowed us to move further with our additional networks without the fear of being shut down.

Sadly, my environment is closed off from the internet so I cannot benefit from all the tools, but with what I can use, I can only say that I would love to see a more customizable dashboard.

In my agency and department, I use tons of tools for scanning, remediation, and reporting. Tools like ACAS and McAfee HBSS have very detailed dashboards if you wish to view more. As stated prior, with reporting being vital, having more detailed, customizable reports that offer graphs, percentages, etc can be useful when looking for quick glance of status when you may not have the time for generating a detailed report. 

I would love a bit more of government customer support and reach out. There is a ton of support for the educational fields, understandably, but I would love to see a small team also dedicated to government support.

We have been using Jamf Pro for a little over a year in production, and almost two years in development.

With the simple database requirement, upgrading or rebuilding is very simple. Running my servers on Macs so far, I have had very little setup or crash issues. Those few were likely caused by a bad package but again easily fixable. 

I love the flexibility of platforms this can be installed on. It provides ease of upgrades and migration when necessary. 

So far, every team that is assigned to my account has been very supportive and reaches out often just to check-in. I have sent emails late at night when testing and still got quick responses with an eagerness to help. 

I have not used a previous solution for Macs. I also have Windows experience and have worked with SCCM. This allowed me to easily explain Jamf Pro and how it works to my Windows-centric agency. 

The engineer that came to help with setup adapted to my skill level. Parts that were complex were necessary based on the task at hand. Most of the setup was straightforward and easy to follow. We only had a development system during the initial setup, so when I was required to repeat the steps for our production, it went very smoothly. 

I implemented basically on my own aside from the Jamf admin that came to assist with the initial setup of my dev environment. 

Not being the numbers cruncher guy in the office, I couldn’t say with numbers. However, I can guarantee based on the time saved and no longer needing overtime to complete upgrades, alone, we have already made our money back and then some. 

With respect to pricing, I would suggest reaching out to a sales rep and discussing all of the options. I would advise them to evaluate their infrastructure and what is required. For example, whether an on-premises or cloud-based deployment is more suitable.

Don’t go into a sales call without knowing all the details of your system because Jamf has a ton of tools outside of Jamf Pro to offer and knowing them ahead of time is a must. 

I did not evaluate other solutions prior to this one. I was thrown into the job and told about Jamf from a colleague. After researching what it was and what it did, I knew it was the solution I needed to assist my department in their Mac system success. 

We use Jamf Pro to manage 1300+ iPads for students and teachers, as well as 100+ MacBooks for teachers and several Apple TVs for classrooms. We push out apps and software, manage updates, and restrict content.

We keep our users working and focused on what they should be doing during school, while giving them freedom to do what they want to do in off-hours, in a safe environment. We get alerts when users violate policies and can take immediate action to disable a device if need be. We can also find lost iPads using Lost Mode.

Things are more automated, so we can be much more hands-off while having greater visibility into what is going on in our environment. We used to have to touch every iPad multiple times per year; with the innovations that Apple has come out with that have been implemented by Jamf, like volume purchasing and device-based app deployment, we can set things up to work automatically. Things that would have taken us weeks in the past now take us mere minutes.

With Jamf reset, we can save time at the end of the school year by having the end-users erase the devices for us. This is a recently-added function and the solution keeps getting better and better.

The most valuable features are the restrictions, Lost Mode, Self Service, and full implementation of anything Apple will let MDM manage. Some other MDMs don't offer the full range, but we know if it is possible then we can do it with Jamf. 

There are some features we use, probably not for the intended outcome, but they save us time and effort. We use Lost Mode to lock devices down and call students up to our office when they have violated a policy and we need to search their iPad. Prior to this, when we would call them up they would delete the evidence on the way. Now, we can catch them red-handed.

There are always ways to improve, and Jamf has a great resource called Jamf Nation, which is an online forum where users can report issues, submit feature requests, and vote and discuss issues and solutions. It's all there for Jamf to see.

I think that some of the feature requests on Jamf Nation have been sitting out there for a long time with no movement, showing as 'planned' for a really long time, and nothing seems to ever become of them. That is disheartening, but if it is an easy fix it gets done, and if it would benefit a wide variety of users they work to get it done.

Technical support is in need of improvement.

I have used this solution for more than five years, the length of time that I have been in this position. The school district I work for has used it for eight years.

This solution has become more stable over the last year or so. I remember problems a while back, but now it seems like they are fewer and farther between.

Scalability is great. It has allowed us to grow while saving us time.

Technical support used to be better; the company has grown a lot, and their support has taken a nosedive in recent history. I recommend requesting support through the website and as soon as they reach out, asking to get on a call to explain and show what is going on so there is no confusion and they can get on your page as quickly as possible.

We didn't use an MDM before Jamf.

The setup was complete before I arrived.

In terms of ROI, I think we get a good bang for the buck.

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. For us, it is necessary to have a good MDM as the demand for technology rises.

We use this solution for device management across a large school.

MDM solutions. We have over two hundred staff and fifteen-hundred students. Jamf Pro allows us to manage all devices across the school remotely and push out any policies, software updates, and applications as needed. We can do all this from the comfort of the IT office, allowing us to focus more on the education around technology, rather than keeping the technology running itself.

Jamf Pro has improved the way IT supports education. It isn't just about device support anymore, we understand the power technology holds in the classroom. We are now able to collaborate with teachers to help them get the most out of their lessons. They have a goal, we have the knowledge to help them accomplish this.

Policies are a great feature that allows us to push certain restrictions to devices that require them, such as the younger generation of students we have. It also allows us to make sure each device is set up with the correct software for learning to flourish.

An in-house chat room would be a great way to communicate with your team when you aren't physically present with them. Also, the ability to add notes on devices, so that a history can be shown as to why a user has done certain things, such as their troubleshooting process or just general thoughts.

We use Jamf Pro to manage all of our one-thousand-plus Apple devices.

We use Jamf for setting up re-stage enrolments and deploy them with the help of DEP and distribute device configurations and other software/applications for iMacs, Macbooks, and iPads. Its something we use every day.

The use of Jamf Pro has massively streamlined our process of working with Apple devices. Before Jamf, we would individually set up and install software on student and staff computers. This was a huge undertaking and has been made so much easier with the help of Jamf, being able to set this up for deployment beforehand.

The features that have been the most life-saving for us are pre-stage enrollments and self-service. The ability to set a generic suite of installations for all devices without ever having to touch the computer is amazing. This matched with self-service allows end-users to custom configure the machine to their needs. 

I can think of only two ways that Jamf could be improved for us at the moment. Primarily by adding the ability to schedule policies for devices. The ability to ask a device to run a policy regularly would be a real advantage.

The other thing would be the ability to brand the Jamf admin portal to match the rest of the organization.

We deploy and manage over twenty thousand Apple devices in our enterprise, all across the state on NC and the UNC system. We use Jamf to set up and deploy Macs, iPads, and AppleTVs out of the box and directly to the users. Then we use Jamf to manage the devices throughout the entire lifecycle.

We could not do the scale and the consistency of support without Jamf. We would have to hire a team of employees and still not have the level of end-user support we can deliver with Jamf. We can automate the entire setup process, fix problems in a moment's notice and from anywhere in the world.

The most valuable features are Zero-touch onboarding, Self Service, and ongoing policies make out of the box setup a breeze.

The full API lets us write custom scripts and apps to enhance even further the end-user experience.

The lifecycle management allows us to better see ROI for our entire Apple fleet.

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

The Cloud version has been very stable.

It has scaled to more than twenty thousand devices with no signs of stopping.

The technical support for this solution is the best.

We used an old open-source solution but we outgrew its capabilities.

The initial setup of this solution was straightforward. Jamf offered a jumpstart that got us up in running in no time.

The Jamf engineer came on-site and was great.

The ROI is greatly in our favor.

The total ROI is worth every penny.

Before choosing this solution we evaluated Radmind, FileWave, KBOX, and SCCM.

The zero-day support for new OS releases is critical and Jamf always stays right on the tech edge. As Apple adds new features, Jamf is in step along the way to deliver those features.

We use this solution to manage all of our company devices. We have both iOS and macOS devices internally. We also use it for license management for some of the other tools we use in-house. It's a great way to keep track of all of our licenses and the software we use daily. 

We use zero-touch deployment for all devices, meaning IT is freed up to work on other things. 

Apple’s deployment programs enable zero-touch deployment by automating enrolment and configuration from a central location, all without having to open the box.

The most valuable features of this solution are self-service and patch management. Deployment of software is also a huge benefit to us as a company.

Inventory can be a daunting task, but with Jamf Pro, and its inventory management capabilities, it doesn’t have to be. Collect inventory automatically, organize that information, and even export reports.

The cloud version sometimes gets a little slow and https:// is always required when entering the URL.

There is still no feature for properly patching T2 Security Chip-enabled Macs. Admins must set up custom-built scripts to get around this functionality miss. Apart from that, it's good.

Stability is very good but could be better in terms of speed when hosted. 

It is a cloud solution, so it works great for scaling. 

Prior to using this solution, we used SimpleMDM.

With Jamf Start, everything was easy to set up and roll out to our team. 

We implemented this solution in-house. 

Our ROI was within two years.

With respect to pricing, Jamf Pro is the better bet. 

God, we tried all of them! SimpleMDM was the main one though.