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Top 10 Mobile Device Management (MDM) Software in 2024

Tathagata Chakrabarti

4th March, 2024

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IT admins can have difficulties managing multiple devices in this age of hybrid work. Mobile Device Management software helps IT admins automate, regulate, and safeguard the organization's administrative policies for mobile devices like laptops, smartphones, tablets, and more.

Employees are getting increasingly comfortable using the device, operating systems, and apps they want. IT departments have to deal with problems associated with managing devices when deploying and connecting internal content and resources.

MDM tools enable IT teams to manage, secure and enforce policies on smartphones, tablets, and other endpoints. Moreover, it improves the security and functionality of mobile devices in an enterprise while also keeping the corporate network safe.

Since each employee's mobile device stores and transfers a lot of data, it has become a target for malware, hackers, and more. IT teams' job is to keep the organization's data safe and ensure it doesn't get lost while giving employees access to required resources. 

The MDM tools can reduce the chance of data loss, stop software from being installed without permission, and stop unauthorized access to mobile devices that have access to corporate data and networks.

Key Features of MDM Software

Mobile Device Management (MDM) lets IT admins track and control mobile devices that access sensitive business data. It includes storing important information about mobile devices, choosing which apps can be on them, finding them, and locking them down if they are lost or stolen. Let's have a look at the features in detail.

• Cut down on IT management: Most IT departments can only keep up with some service requests. Mobile device management software is helpful because it cuts down on the IT work that needs to be done. This software takes care of repetitive tasks like onboarding, giving access requests, etc., and reduces your manual work. It provides IT teams sufficient time to work on challenging projects that can increase productivity.

• Helps manage remote users and their devices

  : You can manage your devices securely and remotely with the help of mobile device management tools. As you pass through firewalls, sensitive information is encrypted and kept safe while data is passed between the server and administration tools. In case of data mismanagement, the IT manager has complete control over the configuration.

• Increases end-user productivity

  : End users can become more productive with the help of mobile device management solutions. With MDM tools, the process of obtaining new mobile devices can be streamlined and reduce the time it takes from days to hours. When end users get the device, MDM makes it easy to set it up on their business network. This reduces wait times for calendars, corporate websites, and email.

• Reduces security risk: 

  Mobile device management software automatically improves network security through encryption and containerization capabilities from a security perspective. With MDM, MSPs(Managed service providers) may separate user personal information from the business side and encrypt specific data to prevent access from hackers, even if they manage to breach the partition. 
  
  This article lists the best ten MDM tools that can help you safely and efficiently manage your employees.

But before moving ahead, we will introduce ourselves (Zluri) here:

Zluri is a SaaS management platform (SMP) that features the world's most extensive app collection, with over 225,000 apps. 

Zluri traces the SaaS apps available in an organization's SaaS ecosystem using five effective discovery methods. SSO or IDP, financial systems, direct integrations, desktop agents (optional), and browser extensions (optional) are the five discovery methods. Once discovered, it helps eliminate redundant, unwanted, underutilized, and risky apps. 

SSO & IDP: Zluri gets authorized apps and login events from the SSOs. These include sign-in attempts, the number of times a user has tried to access an app, and whether or not the attempt was successful. 

Finance Management Systems: Zluri connects to the organization's expense and finance management systems like NetSuite and QuickBooks to get data. This discovery method gathers information about the apps that employees can procure with their corporate cards or personal cards and then get reimbursed.

Direct integration: Through direct integration, Zluri has 750+ integrated apps and knows which users have access to a SaaS app and what level of permissions they have, like if they are a user or an admin. We also track what each user does, which lets you measure how each user uses the SaaS. 

Desktop Agents(optional): Through desktop agents, Zluri can even get information about the device itself and the apps installed or used in the device. But this is an optional method to identify the apps in the organization.

Browser Extension(optional): Zluri gets information about the websites people visit using browser agents. The browser agent can be added as an extension to Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. Also, it collects information about the websites users visit, like the URL, title, and time stamp of when the tab was opened or closed.

Moreover, Zluri can be used to manage access. It connects directly to the apps, and you get info directly from the source of truth.

Additionally, Zluri offers an automation engine that makes the tasks of IT teams easy to give or revoke access from employees with just a few clicks. Also, its contextual recommendation system tells new employees which apps they need to use based on their department and seniority. Further, it handles the overall user lifecycle management.

Now, let us discuss the various mobile device management software.

List of Best MDM Software Available in 2023

Using MDM software, IT teams can control and monitor corporate-owned and personally-owned devices so that the employees follow the organization's rules. The tools also help enforce policies and keep the IT control they want. 

MDM software can reduce the chance that data will be lost, stop software from being installed without permission, and stop unauthorized access to mobile devices that have access to corporate data and networks.

Let's start with the list of top MDM tools :

1. Scalefusion

Scalefusion MDM secures and manages mobile devices and endpoints like laptops, smartphones, tablets, digital signages, POS (Point of Sale), and rugged devices. It makes device management painless and simple and also provides incredible customer support. It is used by various industries like Healthcare, Logistics, Education, Retail, and much more. 

The solution reduces fleet management challenges for devices that run on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. In addition, this application supports several types of deployments that include BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), COPE (Corporate-owned, Personally Enabled), and other single-use case devices. 

Moreover, Scalefusion provides IT teams with complete transparency and monitoring ability which is needed to manage, administer and secure all corporate systems. With such visibility, the IT teams can gain insights into the activities of the administrations. Also, this software offers a diverse range of security policies that helps IT admins protect and secure data from leakage by enforcing robust safety guidelines. 

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.7/5

• Capterra- 4.8/5 

2. Esper

Esper is an MDM solution mainly built for Android devices. However, it is software that goes beyond the mobile device management basics; Esper offers flexible and stable automation tools and device frameworks. 

This MDM tool boasts an enterprise's digital transformation with a reliable, secure, and reproducible solution for monitoring the present state of the device and updating devices and uses enhanced telemetry for application tracking, hardware, and operating systems. Moreover, Esper's powerful device management core helps you feasibly solve issues. 

Esper supports dedicated Android devices and is the first DevOps tool used for such systems. It is designed to offer a safe and simple way for the developers and IT teams to launch apps and manage devices in production. 

Esper additionally provides enterprise application deployment quality control as it allows rolling back the failed or malfunctioning tools. This feature saves time and mitigates the requirement for individual device management that leads to manual inaccuracies. 

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.6/5 

• Capterra- 4.8/5 

3. Kandji

Kandji is an Apple device management software that offers reliable, secure, and productive work worldwide with its automation and administering competency. Kandji's features support all the requirements of admins and end-users that are needed in monitoring remote work and simplify the global connection of organizations. 

Kandji's functions also include security features like risk or threat scanning and configuration locking. Also, the user accounts can be collected in Kandji through third-party applications like Okta or Slack from already set-up profiles. This enables SSO for all mobile devices and synchronizes access rights to on-site Macs. 

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.6/5 

• Capterra- 4.8/5 

4. Hexnode

Hexnode is a unified endpoint management tool that has received an award for its overall solution competence due to its nature of incredible device management. It also offers security solutions for the company- and employee-owned (BYOD) devices. 

Hexnode brings valuable features like containerization lined-up, app management, and kiosk management, along with other in-demand solutions for customer needs. This tool supports Windows, Macs, Android, iOS, fireOS, and Apple TVs.

The MDM solution is built as an easy-to-use application with all types of training availability. It monitors and secures the endpoints through a single console. Its key features include:

• Remote management and control 

• Multi-platform integrations and support 

• Geofencing and location tracking 

• Advance application management

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.6/5 

• Capterra-4.7/5 

5. ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus

ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus is an EMM (enterprise mobility management) solution with a robust MDM capability. It promotes employee productivity without hurting the security of the enterprise, along with MDM ManageEngine includes features like application management, device containerization, and email management. 

The tool is built for both cloud and on-premises, and its Mobile Device Management feature understands all IT team, security, and other user demands. ManageEngine's deployment includes Mac and Windows on desktop, Windows and Linux on-premises, and Android, iPad, and iPhone on mobile. 

It is an effective tool that supports businesses in handling several endpoints and offers smooth mobility to the business. Some of its key features besides MDM, app and email management are:

• User profile management to enforce policies 

• Protects mobile business emails 

• User-Initiated device enrollment 

• Mobile device authentication and enrollment

• A streamlined process for app management 

Customer Rating

• G2-4.5/5 

• Capterra-4.6/7

6. Miradore

Miradore is an MDM tool with user-friendly features and ensures cost-effective security and compliance on all mobile devices. Miradore helps users secure, track, enroll and manage iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android devices from one location. Furthermore, it manages devices efficiently, enabling the employees to function without any interruptions. 

Miradore helps you stay updated with your organization's device fleet and automates device management throughout numerous operating systems. It also deploys company-critical software and keeps your business data under high security. 

This tool has a free plan with simple yet useful features. However, to unlock all additional features, you can purchase a paid plan as per your company's requirements.

Customer Rating

• G2-4.7/5 

• Capterra-4.4/5

7. Addigy

Addigy is an apple device management tool that helps IT administrators to monitor Apple devices which includes OS like mac, iOS, iPad, and TV devices, all in real-time. Its multi-tenant platform merges MDM with live agents to manage a completely secure Apple ecosystem regardless of how many devices you monitor. 

Addigy allows supervisors to create date-stamped logs for all devices and record them, which showcase the last account activity, online/offline status, agent version, and much more. It also has a policy module that helps admins manage a batch of devices and enable instant searches for the users by allocating them to destinations of the policy. 

Addigy assures successful management to its users by providing the following benefits:

• The report, configure, and deployment of all OS and third-party software with easy updates

• Real-time management and administering of all Apple devices

• Automated and secure user onboarding, and it deploys new Mac in less than 5 minutes 

• Instant access to remote macOS devices for quick issue resolution 

It easily integrates with major third-party IT solutions like Datto/Autotask, ITGlue, Zendesk, Freshdesk, CloudRadial, ConnectWise Manage, StreetConnect, NoMAD, etc.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.7/5 

• Capterra- 4.4/5

8. Jamf Pro

Jamf Pro is a complete mobile device management system for Apple macOS desktops and iOS devices produced by Jamf. This comprises software deployment and maintenance, responding to security risks, setting distribution, and inventory data analysis.

Using Jamf, IT and security teams can rest assured that the end-user devices, data, and applications are being managed and protected without disrupting the Apple experience. 

To that end, we assist our clients in empowering their workforces with technology that is both enterprise-grade and consumer-friendly, all the while maintaining strict confidentiality standards.

Jamf Pro also works with Apple Business Manager, which is a free deployment program from Apple that can help you make your purchasing process more efficient. And if you already have Apple devices in use, the network scan tool in Jamf Pro can help you find Macs that aren't being managed so you can make plans to do so.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.7/5

• Capterra- 4.7/5

9. AirDroid

AirDroid Business is an MDM (mobile device management) software that runs with powerful remote control and device management capabilities. This software helps IT teams and organizations seamlessly manage, provision, and secure android fleets in the company network. 

The tool supports all Android-based devices without requiring any attendants and provides remote device alerts and monitoring features. AirDroid also helps in mobile application management and kiosk and device lock management. This whitelists browsers and applications, providing security to protect the devices and networks from potentially risky applications. 

AirDroid supports OS such as Windows, Android, macOS, and iOS and browsers like Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and Chrome. It also supports cloud and on-site deployments that secure business data and provide the store with flexible choices. 

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.6/5 

• Capterra: 5/5

10. datajar.Mobi

datajar.Mobi is a cloud-based MDM solution that transforms the way Apple devices are managed. The platform offers zero-touch onboarding, configuration management, patch management, and endpoint detection and response (EDR). It does this by providing fully automated and managed services backed by an efficient Apple support team.

The tool provides a platform that integrates, automates, and simplifies some of the leading solutions in the modern Apple device management space, such as Jamf, Okta, or Azure AD while integrating seamlessly with Apple's modern device enrollment workflows. 

The result is a service-enabled MDM tool that allows IT teams to automate, simplify, and scale their managed Apple estate with unmatched automation and management capabilities.

Customer Rating

• G2-4.7/5

About the author

Tathagata Chakrabarti

Tathagata is a Technical Content Writer with 4+ of experience in the SaaS industry. He has a keen eye for research and understanding macro trends in the SaaS & AI-based technology space. He has worked across several marketing & strategy roles in various domains like banking, e-commerce, and education sectors. In his leisure time, Tathagata is a full-time PC gamer.