What is Apple Business Manager and why everyone should be using it!

What is Apple Business Manager and why everyone should be using it!

Apple Business Manager - Free deployment with EVERY Apple Device

Apple Business Manager

Deploy Apple devices without lifting a finger.

Whether you have ten Apple devices or ten thousand, it’s easy to deploy and manage them with Apple Business Manager. It works seamlessly with mobile device management solutions, so you can set up Mac, iPad, iPhone and Apple TV over the air – without any need for manual configuration.


So what is Apple Business Manager?

Apple Business Manager or ABM for short is a FREE web based portal provided by apple.

It gives businesses an easy way to deploy their devices quickly and remove the need to prepare the devices before giving them to your staff.

It effectively enables you to send brand new devices directly to your staff without the need to manually configure them. They can be sent or given to the staff members unboxed and once they turn on the device for the first time Apple will push your settings and apps to the device over the internet. This saves you time and automates your deployment.
This is for all Apple devices including iPhones, iPads, Macbooks and even Apple TV’s.

There is also the benefit of providing staff with their own company managed Apple ID’s this is to remove the need of users having a personal apple account on their business device, and this is all controlled from Apple Business Manager and gives you the control to restrict access or reset their managed passwords.

You can easily purchase and distribute your apps or books centrally in Apple business manager, you can also assign a single app to be pushed to multiple devices using the volume purchase program this will ensure your staff have the correct apps installed. The apps can be revoked and redistributed to your devices at any time.


So this is why we think you should be using Apple Business Manager?

It works seamlessly with any Mobile Device Management package, it can automatically enroll your devices which are added to Apple Business Manager straight into your MDM.
You can tell the devices to skip parts of the setup assistant, so when a device is first unboxed and switched on, it ask the user some personal settings like their language.  But you also can choose to hide or remove the questions that are shown.  In example you may wish to hide the prompt regarding the user signing in with their personal apple id.
If you do choose to use an MDM this will give your extra supervision of your devices, you can push settings like WiFi details or email account information straight to your users, and importantly also have the ability to track, wipe or lock devices if they are lost or stolen. This gives your business piece of mind to protect your company data.
If someone does try and factory reset the device it will not be removed from your management, when the device is switched on,  Apple will automatically tell the device it is part of your account and request the user to sign in again.

Another good feature is the ability to remove activation locks.  If a device is returned from a member of staff and they have forgotten to remove their personal apple account the device is locked to their apple id.  So once you wipe the device you would be prompted to enter the staff members personal apple password and you would not normally be able to remove this lock without it.  Unless the device is enrolled in Apple Business Manager, the activation lock can be removed buy a single click or by entering a bypass code.

There is no minimum amount of devices that you can enrol and we at HardSoft would always suggest that all of your company owned apple devices are enrolled now to make it easier for the future.
However the devices must be purchased from Apple directly or from an Authorised Apple reseller like HardSoft.
So use this to take control of your devices and give your business the ability to automate zero-touch deployments.

Which is perfect for businesses in the current climate, everyone has staff who are working from home and you can simply send brand new devices directly to your users without the need to manually configure any settings or install any applications before they receive the device. Not forgetting it gives you control of the device if it is lost or stolen.

It is a FREE service for all of our customers, so please find more information here: https://www.hardsoftcomputers.co.uk/what-kind-of-user-are-you/apple-business-manager/
For more information please contact us to have a free consultation call with our Solutions Team!

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