SimpleMDM

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Apple device deployment & enterprise app manager

About SimpleMDM

SimpleMDM is a mobile device manager for organizations that need to manage a large number of corporate or employee owned Apple devices including iPhones, iPads, and computers running macOS. The platform enables users to deploy enterprise and volume purchase apps, initialize devices in bulk, and get greater control with iOS supervision features.

Organizations are able to secure company assets and data by hiding apps, blocking features and disabling functionality, to requiring passcodes, disabling dangerous iOS features, and more. SimpleMDM enables users to track real time and historic device location, enable lost mode on supervised devices, and view device locations on a map. Users can also get asset details such as battery life, storage capacity, serial numbers, iOS versions, and more.

Apple’s device enrollment program (VPP) and volume purchase program (DEP) allow users to purchase Apple devices that are preconfigured for SimpleMDM and supervision. Organizations are able to buy and install enterprise, custom B2B, and App Store apps on all devices at the corporate level, with or without using Apple IDs. The platform handles Apple enterprise app distribution with support for app upgrades, certificates, and provisioning profile management to prevent data from getting lost between upgrades.

DEP allows new company-owned devices to enroll automatically, and BYOD (bring your own device) setups can be enrolled via the Apple configurator, web link, email, SMS or QR code. SimpleMDM supports a variety of configuration profiles including AirPlay Destinations, AirPrint Printers, calendars, contacts, email, passcodes, restrictions, single app lock, VPN, global HTTP proxies, web content filters, Wi-Fi networks, and more.


Key benefits of SimpleMDM

  • SimpleMDM provides full support for the Apple Device Enrollment Program (DEP) and the Apple Volume Purchase Program (VPP) with device-level assignment.

  • The solution's iOS supervised mode allows additional configuration and restriction options such as arranging and hiding apps, activation locks, and force app installs and updates.

  • The platform alerts users of issues concerning Apple IDs, device permissions, licensing and enterprise certificates, and can recover from them automatically.

  • SimpleMDM provides a powerful API (RESTful JSON), providing organizations with access to their account and devices, and integration with existing infrastructures.

  • Apple supervision allows for even greater control over devices through SimpleMDM than is generally allowed by iOS.

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    SimpleMDM Software - View device details and its location on a map
    SimpleMDM Software - View a list of devices and filter by device name, serial number, application name, phone number, and more
    SimpleMDM Software - Sign in and click the ‘Enroll Devices’ button to get an enrollment url
    SimpleMDM Software - Add specific apps to a restriction list
    SimpleMDM Software - Track company assets by monitoring device locations  in near real time
    SimpleMDM Software - Configure advanced policies for devices or groups of devices to comply with
    SimpleMDM Software - Enable 2-factor authentication in SimpleMDM
    SimpleMDM Software - The iOS app adds location tracking and administrator messaging to devices managed by SimpleMDM
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    SimpleMDM Software - View device details and its location on a map
    SimpleMDM Software - View a list of devices and filter by device name, serial number, application name, phone number, and more
    SimpleMDM Software - Sign in and click the ‘Enroll Devices’ button to get an enrollment url
    SimpleMDM Software - Add specific apps to a restriction list
    SimpleMDM Software - Track company assets by monitoring device locations  in near real time
    SimpleMDM Software - Configure advanced policies for devices or groups of devices to comply with
    SimpleMDM Software - Enable 2-factor authentication in SimpleMDM
    SimpleMDM Software - The iOS app adds location tracking and administrator messaging to devices managed by SimpleMDM

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    • Industry: Mental Health Care
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Great device management tool

    Reviewed on 2020/10/06

    SimpleMDM has been a lifesaver to manage our large amount of devices deployed to customers.

    SimpleMDM has been a lifesaver to manage our large amount of devices deployed to customers.

    Pros

    SimpleMDM has been a fantastic tool to use to manage the thousand of devices we have deployed in the field.
    The features to customize the different components required for our deployment are amazing. SimpleMDM offers great visibility, device management and device control.

    Cons

    Nothing really to complain about the software. Customer support has been responsive to all our queries, which are usually related to third parties changing device's features.

    Jeanne
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    • Industry: Consumer Services
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Easy Mobile Device Management

    Reviewed on 2022/12/21

    Really good, it does everything we need, I've been happy with the software.

    Really good, it does everything we need, I've been happy with the software.

    Pros

    SimpleMDM was easy to set up and easy to use. When I have a questions someone always gets back to me with an answer.

    Cons

    sometimes I wish I could get support on the phone rather than email.

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    Reasons for Switching to SimpleMDM

    It was recommended to me by the Blue Collar Nerd on Your Tube.
    Chad
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    • Industry: Wholesale
    • Company size: 201–500 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

    It's a solid product, but a few small changes would make it awesome.

    Reviewed on 2017/07/13

    It's cheaper than mobileIron or Airwatch. Mostly, this allows us to more easily manage DEP...

    It's cheaper than mobileIron or Airwatch. Mostly, this allows us to more easily manage DEP enrolled iOS devices.

    Pros

    Cheap, intuitive, basic features are very easy to use. Support is quick to respond and offers helpful advice/solutions.

    Cons

    To be awesome:
    For the love of god fix your UI - please....
    The Groups should be collapsible. Exports should be able to contain everything (the group field is missing) and there's no filter/modification/selection on group view. Also, nothing can be copied, so multiple similar groups have to be created and then re-created by hand.

    To be better than awesome (better than Airwatch/MobileIron):
    The only big things we'd love to see is more control over user rights in order to assign tech staff to manage SimpleMDM without full access to all of the SimpleMDM, filter access to device groups, filter access to SimpleMDM controls/device commands.
    The addition of file management on the iOS platform? That is, let us push files to the device for their ibooks or icloud drive environment.
    Also, a backup via simplemdm to grab txts, contacts, pictures, etc... when moving a user to new hardware?
    Sync to AD - pull in user data to be assigned to the device (email, contact information, etc...) Allow sending messages to a whole group instead of just one device at a time.
    Allow the enabling of "Automatic" updates when new versions of iTunes Store applications are available to users.

    Response from PDQ

    Thanks for providing your feedback, Chad. We have taken it into account. The devices view has been updated to solve the problems you mentioned. We've also added admin permission classes, the ability to message groups of devices in one action, and automatic app updates. Thank you for your continued business!

    Connor
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    • Industry: Management Consulting
    • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    SimpleMDM - a simple, yet powerful tool for management.

    Reviewed on 2022/12/15

    I cannot stress enough how much SimpleMDM has helped us. With our continued growth, roll out of new...

    I cannot stress enough how much SimpleMDM has helped us. With our continued growth, roll out of new software and growing needs, SimpleMDM meets and goes beyond our needs and expectations,

    Pros

    SimpleMDM has changed our day to day work flow for administration of Mac users. Coming from manually tracking and managing software, devices and all other data that comes along with that, SimpleMDM completely blew my mind. The fact that almost anything can be automated - from device enrollment to software installs, this has saved myself and team countless hours.

    Cons

    There hasn't been much I feel that the software is missing. It is very straight forward and support is great when we have questions. Perhaps a built in command to reset users passwords?

    Douglas
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    • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    The best management option for our mobile workforce

    Reviewed on 2016/06/30

    Our company sells customer loyalty software and services. Our most popular product is a mobile app...

    Our company sells customer loyalty software and services. Our most popular product is a mobile app and iPad combination that retailers place at their registers, allowing these retailers to incentivize their customers to shop with them often. The service we offer is fully managed, meaning we develop the software, deploy and maintain the iPads running the software, and handle all other service and maintenance activities. We currently manage in the neighborhood of 750 devices.

    We initially used Apple Configurator for our management platform and later moved to Cisco Meraki. After continued issues with their buggy platform, I began an in-depth process of reviewing other MDM solutions. They were

    Apple Profile Manager
    JAMF Casper Suite
    JAMF Bushel
    SimpleMDM
    Air-Watch
    MobileIron

    In brief, MobileIron and Air-Watch were a nightmare to use (check the web for similar sentiment). Casper Suite, while better, still had an outdated interface based on Java that didn't deliver a great experience. Apple Profile Manager required that we manage the server ourselves, which we preferred not to do. JAMF Bushel had a much newer looking interface than JAMF Casper Suite, but seemed more oriented toward the small office environment of 20 devices or less. The interface quickly became unruly and the configuration options too general and limited as we got going.

    SimpleMDM has a new-age webby look and feel much like JAMF Bushel displayed. In addition, the feature set fit our deployment needs much better. Bushel doesn't allow enteprise app deployment but SimpleMDM does. Bushel isn't feature rich when it comes to supervised device functionality, SimpleMDM is.

    What tipped the scale for me in the end was the friendliness and willingness to help that I experienced with the SimpleMDM staff. We had an issue with our push certificate that ultimately turned out to be due to a misstep of my own. Their staff was extremely helpful in resolving the issue, offering to retrieve old data backups they had to recover a certificate I had deleted. In these days of relatively anonymous software as a service transactions, it was a joy to learn that one of our vendors has our backs.

    We've been with SimpleMDM for almost eight months now and I am very satisfied with my selection.

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    SimpleMDM FAQs

    Below are some frequently asked questions for SimpleMDM.

    SimpleMDM offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$3.00/month
    • Pricing model: Subscription
    • Free Trial: Available

    $2.50/month per device. Monthly and annual payment plans are available.

    SimpleMDM has the following typical customers:

    11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    SimpleMDM supports the following languages:

    English

    SimpleMDM supports the following devices:

    iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

    SimpleMDM integrates with the following applications:

    ACCOUNTS

    SimpleMDM offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, Chat

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