A heterogeneous business environment may occur due to departments having different needs, new hardware acquisitions and/or new or changing bring your own device (BOYD) policies. This leads to an increase in endpoints that must be managed and protected by using multiple management tools. A multipronged approach leads to the risk of missing endpoints or incorrect configuration. Unified endpoint management (UEM) software is a better solution to a heterogeneous environment. From one interface, system engineers can enroll new endpoints, apply policies, send updates, control applications, identify security threats, and more. When this software is combined with AI, management and protection become even easier. This saves precious time and allows for it to be reinvested into other tasks.
What Came Before UEM?
UEM was preceded by mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM), and enterprise mobility management (EMM).
- MDM allows for the management and protection …