10 Companies To Manage Your Mobile Business Needs: The 2022 CRN Mobile 100
CRN pulls together a list of the leading mobile device management firms to keep your business on track from any location.
Mobile device management has become a must-have tool for channel partners and there are scant players offering the levels of service required. With hybrid and remote work still at high levels even as the severity of the pandemic seems to be waning, remote capabilities are crucial for companies. That’s where solution providers step in to offer remote management for companies to keep track of their device usage. Companies like Mosyle and Addigy help businesses control and track their in-house mobile devices with turnkey solutions for software management and more. These companies, along with others listed below, have become key components of managed service provider offerings.
In 2022, device management solutions and mobile security tools, such as mobile threat prevention solutions, are available from a wide range of cybersecurity vendors both small and large. To help solution providers with finding the right mobile security and management tools for their customers, we’ve pulled together a list of products that are both highly regarded and come from vendors that are actively engaged with the channel.
As part of CRN’s 2022 Mobile 100, here are 10 great MDM firms making remote management a breeze in 2022:
* Addigy
* Citrix
* Ivanti
* Jamf
* Kandji
* Miradore
* Mosyle
* SOTI
* VMware
Addigy
Addigy is an Apple Device Management tool that strives to simplify Apple IT management so that any IT administrator can easily manage and secure the Apple drives in their managed networks, regardless of their level of Apple expertise, the company says. Addigy offers monitoring and remediation, always-on compliance, and instant remote access as standard services for business Mac users. Addigy founder Jason Dettbarn attributes his company’s quick growth to Apple’s growth in the enterprise and small and medium-sized business market: “We expect the Apple ecosystem to be growing in the SMB space, arguably at an even faster rate than in enterprise. We feel like our investment [in MSPs] is going to be continuing to pay off for the next decade.”
Citrix
Citrix is a Fort Laurderdale, Fla.-based cloud computing and remote access provider that started with products for Microsoft operating systems. Since then, the company has shifted its focus to Software As A Service (Saas) and Device as a Service (DaaS). In 2021, Citrix generated $3.2 billion in revenue and had 9,700 employees. Earlier this year, Citrix CEO Bob Calderoni told CRN the company was making changes to how it rewards channel partners. “Those partners that really grow and scale their business are those that find logical adjacencies to our technology,” he said.
Ivanti
Ivanti connects industry-leading unified endpoint management, zero trust security and service management solutions to provide a solution for enterprises to protect and fix devices, and service end users. The Salt Lake City-based company’s Service Manager product is focused on driving more support automation for edge devices through a combination of automation and self-service capabilities. Following the acquisitions of mobile endpoint management firm MobileIron and secure access firm Pulse Secure in late 2020, Ivanti now offers an array of mobile security solutions as part of its Unified Endpoint Management offering. Those solutions include Ivanti UEM for Mobile, which enables automated management of iOS and Android devices, and Ivanti Mobile Threat Defense, which provides automatic mobile threat detection and remediation.
Jamf
Minneapolis-based Jamf is an apple device management software maker with its flagship product, Jamf Pro, is an enterprise mobility management offering for managing and security Apple devices including Macs, iPhones, and a iPads. Jamf’s last big move: The company in 2021 acquired security firm Wandera for $400 million to add cloud and mobile security capabilities to Jamf’s enterprise security offerings. Jamf’s Apple enterprise mobility management solution, Jamf Pro, offers a full spectrum of management capabilities across Mac, iPhone and iPad—including deployment, device management, app management and inventory. Jamf Pro also enables security for Apple devices with features for managing device settings, automated patching and restricting of malicious software.
Kandji
Kandji is a newer provider of Apple device management and security that launched its solution in October 2019. The platform mainly focuses on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS. Kandji works a little differently than its competitors, offering just the management and administration of Apple devices. The Kandji platform shows audit information for attached devices. For more strictly managed devices, a library of approved apps can be curated and maintained, letting the user install apps without hitting up the IT department.
Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based service that focuses on mobile device management and mobile application management. You can control how your organization’s devices are used – including mobile phones, tablets and laptops. As part of Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) suite, Intune integrates with Azure Active Directory to control who has access and what they can access. It also integrates with Azure Information Protection for data protection. It can be used with the entire suite of Microsoft 365 products.
Miradore
Miradore offers device management and security across iOS, Android, Windows and macOS devices. Capabilities of the Miradore product span management of device and data security, device settings and restrictions, app and content management and automation of tasks such as device enrollments and configurations.
Mosyle
Mosyle is a Winter Park, Fla.-based MDM that provides its Apple Unified Platform to combine enhanced device management, endpoint security, internet privacy/security, identity management and application management in one neat package. The company in May announced a $196 million series B funding haul. Mosyle’s founder and CEO Alcyr Araujo told CRN, “I believe this funding reinforces that we are on the right path… And we have been able to find needs in the market and offer things that customers are willing to pay for.”
SOTI
The SOTI ONE Platform is an offering for securing both mobile devices and IoT operations, including solutions such as the SOTI MobiControl enterprise mobility management solution, the SOTI Assist mobile-first diagnostic help desk, SOTI Insight business intelligence and the SOTI Connect solution for full lifecycle management of IoT devices. Recent updates include the launch of the SOTI MobiControl System Health Dashboard, which provides a comprehensive overview of the operational performance of the SOTI MobiControl EMM.
VMware
VMware Workspace One brings together unified endpoint management—which consolidates management of mobile devices, desktops and rugged devices—with zero-trust security and correlation of data across the digital workspace. The solution, available both on-premises or as a cloud service, ultimately combines access control, multi-platform endpoint management and application management within a single platform.