What is unified endpoint management? And how can it help you and your company or organization? Some of these key UEM benefits might surprise you.
If you’re an IT manager or business owner / manager, you know that managing your employees’ dozens or even thousands of devices is a tedious, thankless task. And it gets even crazier with more and more employees working remotely using all kinds of devices and platforms like Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and tvOS. The need to manage and secure them all creates huge challenges for businesses and IT teams.
Fortunately, there’s a solution: Unified Endpoint Management. The best Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solutions allow your organization to securely manage and control desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets in a connected, cohesive manner from a single console.
Some UEM providers offer UEM as a feature in their enterprise mobility management software, while other providers focus on UEM as their main service. Whichever provider you choose, you can rest easy knowing that UEM is the best way to make sure your devices are properly managed.
Top Unified Endpoint Management benefits
Listed below are four of the most important benefits that organizations gain from a solid UEM solution:
No more struggle managing multiple devices:
In today’s mobile, business-oriented IT world, your company’s users are probably using a wide variety of devices, operating systems and business applications. This is where UEM shines. Its compact nature provides extreme visibility in managing every device, platform, configuration and application.
Improved experiences & reduced costs:
When you remove your company’s burden of managing multiple devices, these next two UEM benefits naturally follow. With a UEM solution, your company’s employees will no longer have to rely on your IT department’s limited availability. Instead, the UEM solution should automatically detect, analyze and resolve any issues with devices or applications. That not only makes for a more seamless user experience, but it also reduces your company’s device management costs.
Enhanced IT security:
Security has always been a major concern for all IT departments. In most cases, keeping data secure and protecting it from unauthorized access are the most stressful tasks for IT admins. With UEM, all of that becomes child’s play. UEM lets your IT team provide seamless access to corporate data, and ensure that all endpoints follow a standard network policy.
Smarter business decisions:
If you’re an IT asset managers or administrator, you’ll soon realize that one of the most important UEM benefits is its ability to show you all of your device endpoints at once. A great UEM can analyze massive amount of data generated from all endpoints. That makes it easier for you and other decision makers to track data, prepare customized reports and make informed decisions. And, you can customize most UEM solutions to meet the requirements, infrastructure, and vulnerabilities specific to your organization.
New UEM benefits & features in Hexnode
As a 2019 Mobile Star Awards Winner and 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice pick, Hexnode MDM is a UEM solution that covers all of the above-mentioned UEM benefits. Hexnode MDM (mobile device management) controls and ensures end-to-end security for any number of devices of all major operating systems. From a single console or screen, Hexnode MDM allows you to remotely view and control all of your endpoints over-the-air, configure devices, distribute mobile apps, update and delete apps, manage policies, and maintain well-organized app inventory.
Most recently, Hexnode has expanded its current support for Microsoft Azure Active Directory, adding support to Microsoft’s cloud-based IAM (Identity and Access Management) service. With the integration of Azure AD, Hexnode is now able to import Azure AD users to the MDM console and initiate enrollment. Hexnode says that the IAM features are to be released soon, along with features such as single sign-on and multi-factor authentication.
Hexnode also now supports iOS remote view for Apple devices with iOS 11 and above, allowing your IT support team to remotely assist and iPhone or iPad users and troubleshoot devices. (Hexnode MDM already supports remote view for Android devices and remote control for Samsung Knox devices.) Two things to keep in mind here: because Apple does not allow remote control of iOS devices, this feature set is limited to remote view. And unlike Android, an iOS remote view session takes place only when the end user agrees to it.
Your next steps…
As you can see, Unified Endpoint Management solutions are not only beneficial for IT security, but they also benefit admins and users through flexibility, access and efficiency. Now that you know about these key UEM benefits, why not test drive a UEM solution?
Hexnode is the enterprise software division of San Francisco based Mitsogo. For more information on Hexnode MDM and its other UEM features like Windows device management, Mac management and kiosk management, check out Hexnode’s previous features here on MobileVillage:
8 features to look for in a great Windows device management platform
Enterprise Mac management & its importance in MDM
Hexnode MDM excels at Unified Endpoint Management
