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MaaS360 vs Microsoft Intune
March 19, 2025 | Author: Michael Stromann
12★
MDM in Minutes: Deploy, Secure and Support Smartphones & Tablets. Every organization needs to see and control the mobile devices entering their enterprise, whether they are provided by the company or part of a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program. MaaS360 mobile device management (MDM) is the fastest, most comprehensive way to make that happen.
23★
Microsoft Intune allows to protect and manage endpoints in one place. Strengthen your Zero Trust architecture and build resiliency with a new suite of advanced endpoint management and security solutions.
MaaS360 and Microsoft Intune are both, in essence, glorified digital bouncers for your company’s devices, ensuring no riff-raff gets in and that employees don’t drunkenly stagger into security nightmares. They live in the cloud, enforce corporate policies like a particularly grumpy librarian and can wipe a device clean faster than you can say, “Oops, I left my laptop in a taxi.” Both integrate with Microsoft’s identity systems, keeping track of who’s who and who should definitely not have access to the company’s deepest, darkest secrets. Also, they both let you manage apps with the kind of precision usually reserved for obsessive stamp collectors.
IBM’s MaaS360, originally crafted by Fiberlink Communications (before IBM swooped in like a giant AI-powered seagull in 2013), has been in the game since 2006. It’s been keeping enterprise devices in check longer than most smartphones have existed and it even brings AI-powered Watson insights into the mix, presumably so it can sternly tell you, “I’m sorry, Dave, you can’t install that app.” It’s particularly fond of heavily regulated industries where security policies are more complex than a Vogon poetry recital. Oh and it can manage Linux and ruggedized devices too, because IBM never met an operating system it didn’t want to boss around.
Microsoft Intune, on the other hand, was born in 2011 and, as one might expect, is entirely and unapologetically in love with Windows. It integrates so deeply with Microsoft 365 that you’d think they were childhood sweethearts and it’s primarily designed for businesses that worship at the altar of Azure. Unlike MaaS360, which comes as a standalone product, Intune prefers the company of Microsoft 365 E3/E5 plans, lurking in subscription bundles like a well-dressed hitchhiker looking for a lift to the cloud. It does a fantastic job if your business is already in Microsoft’s ecosystem, but if you stray too far into non-Windows territory, it might give you a slightly judgmental look.
See also: Top 10 MDM software
IBM’s MaaS360, originally crafted by Fiberlink Communications (before IBM swooped in like a giant AI-powered seagull in 2013), has been in the game since 2006. It’s been keeping enterprise devices in check longer than most smartphones have existed and it even brings AI-powered Watson insights into the mix, presumably so it can sternly tell you, “I’m sorry, Dave, you can’t install that app.” It’s particularly fond of heavily regulated industries where security policies are more complex than a Vogon poetry recital. Oh and it can manage Linux and ruggedized devices too, because IBM never met an operating system it didn’t want to boss around.
Microsoft Intune, on the other hand, was born in 2011 and, as one might expect, is entirely and unapologetically in love with Windows. It integrates so deeply with Microsoft 365 that you’d think they were childhood sweethearts and it’s primarily designed for businesses that worship at the altar of Azure. Unlike MaaS360, which comes as a standalone product, Intune prefers the company of Microsoft 365 E3/E5 plans, lurking in subscription bundles like a well-dressed hitchhiker looking for a lift to the cloud. It does a fantastic job if your business is already in Microsoft’s ecosystem, but if you stray too far into non-Windows territory, it might give you a slightly judgmental look.
See also: Top 10 MDM software
