Table of Contents
- Summary
- Market Categories and Deployment Types
- Key Criteria Comparison
- GigaOm Radar
- Vendor Insights
- Analyst’s Take
- Methodology
- About Paul Stringfellow
- About GigaOm
- Copyright
1. Summary
Endpoint management is one of the most significant challenges enterprises face today. The modern workforce is becoming more distributed and demanding the flexibility to work where they want, when they want. Business leaders must respond to this demand and provide access to the services employees require, while also maintaining security and control of the business’s data assets.
To address these issues, organizations need an appropriate endpoint management strategy. The modern approach should be holistic and unified, bringing together control of devices, management of applications, security of data, and user access controls. Failing to deliver an effective endpoint strategy can have significant business impact, negatively affecting efficiency and competitiveness. Now, more than ever, the inability to offer a positive and flexible end user experience can make a business less attractive to potential employees.
The management of endpoint devices is not a new challenge; however, the way we operate has changed. This is reflected clearly in how market-leading vendors have shifted their approach, moving from “point solutions” to developing unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions. UEM solutions provide a single platform to manage a wide variety of endpoints, from desktops and laptops to cloud repositories. They offer granular control policies from configuration and applications to security based on geography, and from complete device restrictions to nuanced data controls.
This GigaOM radar report evaluates the leading UEM vendors that can underpin your endpoint management strategy. We look at tools that effectively meet the demands of the modern enterprise by providing robust management, security, and control. This report aims to give enterprise decision makers an overview of how these offerings can help address the complex challenge of endpoint management.
How to Read this Report
This GigaOm report is one of a series of documents that helps IT organizations assess competing solutions in the context of well-defined features and criteria. For a fuller understanding consider reviewing the following reports:
Key Criteria report: A detailed market sector analysis that assesses the impact that key product features and criteria have on top-line solution characteristics—such as scalability, performance, and TCO—that drive purchase decisions.
GigaOm Radar report: A forward-looking analysis that plots the relative value and progression of vendor solutions along multiple axes based on strategy and execution. The Radar report includes a breakdown of each vendor’s offering in the sector.
Solution Profile: An in-depth vendor analysis that builds on the framework developed in the Key Criteria and Radar reports to assess a company’s engagement within a technology sector. This analysis includes forward-looking guidance around both strategy and product.