IBM MaaS360

MaaS360 manages and protects a mobile workforce through unified endpoint management, with IBM applying artificial intelligence to the analysis of device risk. Unified endpoint management is the term that replaced mobile device management once the boundary between phones and laptops stopped mattering.

That consolidation happened for a practical reason. An organisation formerly ran one tool for laptops and another for phones, which meant two policies, two consoles and two answers to the question of whether a given user's device was compliant. Managing everything an employee works on from one place removes an entire category of gap.

Enrolment is where these deployments actually succeed or fail. A device that never enrols is not managed, and the friction of enrolment determines how many are quietly missed, particularly where staff use personal devices for work and reasonably object to an employer controlling them entirely.

The AI positioning applies to risk assessment: identifying which devices present genuine exposure rather than reporting that four hundred are missing a patch, which no administrator can act on. IBM offers a thirty percent discount on all MaaS360 editions and add ons for purchases made through its own site, but no rate is published.