Better Together: Managing your Apple devices as an ecosystem

Some organizations have separate teams purchasing and managing mobile devices (e.g., a Telecom team) and another (IT team) purchasing and managing computers — resulting in multiple management tools within the same organization. However, Microsoft, Google and Apple are all pushing for a unique experience across each of their desktop and mobile platforms. This puts the multiple management tools model at odds with the interconnected platform vision, which has spawned the notion of “unified endpoint management” (UEM), where all devices are managed by a single management tool. This might sound great, but begs the question, “what is universal across Microsoft, Apple and Google?”