An alternative to Sophos Mobile that

Barricade your Apple devices from data theft

To ensure that the data on your macOS devices is safe, ManageEngine empowers admins to set up Recovery Lock and firmware passwords. This prompts for password authentication whenever a user tries to boot up the device in macOS Recovery, where sensitive data on hard disk drives can be accessed. Additionally, you can prevent users from enabling iCloud Private Relay. These security enhancing features are not offered by Sophos.

Get more out of your purpose-built devices

Devices with a single purpose that are used by frontline workers or deployed by businesses as a part of check-in or self-service portals, digital signage, and point-of-sale platforms need to have ample restrictions enforced on them while allowing users to access required information and complete specific tasks. With Sophos, you can lockdown iPads to only a single app but cannot lock them down to a designated group of apps, install web shortcuts in kiosks, or customize their home screen.

You can do all of this and a lot more with our advanced kiosk management capabilities. Devices can be locked down to an app for a defined period or until an employee's task is completed.

Increase MDM adoption in BYOD

While the BYOD trend is certainly proving to be money saving for organizations, ensuring that only trusted devices have access to corporate resources is an ever-growing challenge. Conditional access is a feature that restricts access to corporate resources, like email and workplace apps, to devices managed by your organization

Sophos recommends that users integrate with other MDM vendors for conditional access to Exchange and Microsoft apps, resulting in a complicated setup, additional overhead, and unequivocal data sharing. With ManageEngine, you can set up conditional access to not just Exchange and Microsoft apps, but also to Zoho Workplace apps and G Suite applications.

Schedule reports as unique as your fingerprint

With remote work here to stay, it has become imperative for organizations to have granular insights into their devices, apps, and data. Not being able to find essential information in reports often translates to a constant worry that compliance policies are not met. This is the case with Sophos, where tailoring reports as per your organization's needs is not an option.

With Mobile Device Manager Plus, in addition to scheduling an exhaustive list of pre-built reports, you can also create customized reports based on your organization's specific needs.

Location tracking: No more hefty fines from lost devices

It is crucial for organizations to keep track of all remote devices with regulations like HIPAA, the GDPR, and Data Protection Act levying hefty fines for loss of sensitive data. Though Sophos allows you to track devices on-demand, you cannot keep track of the locations that a device traverses over time.

Keeping track of devices and their location history along with scheduling periodic reports is easy with Mobile Device Manager Plus. Additionally, you can simultaneously view the accurate location and location history of all your devices on a single map view.

Non-traditional device management? We've got you covered

TDevices scanning inventory in a medical warehouse or monitoring patient vitals with sensors require custom firmware and hardware. Managing such devices is essential given the magnitude of tasks these devices perform but impossible with Sophos due to lack of integration with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). We integrate with all major vendors like Samsung, Lenovo, Honeywell, Datalogic, Zebra, Cipherlab, Unitech, Nokia, Kyocera, Seuic, and Spectralink to offer great control over these devices leveraging OEM-specific configurations .

Smart power management for your mission-critical devices

Day-to-day operations are negatively impacted when devices like the ones used by frontline workers run out of power. The overhead needed to procure additional devices to offset this problem is considerable when organizations have a large number of devices.

Smartly manage power using special reports dedicated to battery level tracking offered by Mobile Device Manager Plus. With usage trends and average charge expectancy data, create schedules for turning off or charging devices in batches. Set up alerts for battery level drop of mission critical devices and keep them running without interruption.

Device- and platform-agnostic management

As every organization expands, so does its IT footprint. This expanding footprint often means more diversity in device and platform types. Your mobile endpoint management solution should provide you the option to manage all devices. Compared to ManageEngine, your device management options are not as diverse in Sophos. Along with traditional devices, with Mobile Device Manager Plus, you can manage Android TVs, wearables like HoloLens devices, and a gamut of rugged and IoT devices.

No third-party access to your data whatsoever

We at Zoho (parent company of ManageEngine) are extremely strict and cautious about how your data is accessed, processed, and controlled. We even host our own data centers and we use no third-party tools to provide product functions. All our features and products are built from the ground up.

Sophos has to integrate with several third-party vendors to provide certain functions like remote control, conditional access, and app-only management. So, when you sign an agreement with Sophos, access to your data is not limited just to Sophos.

Easy unattended access at no extra cost

Sophos integrates with TeamViewer for remote troubleshooting. This means you can expect a complicated setup process and extra costs.

We use our in-house troubleshooting tool to facilitate seamless troubleshooting with unattended access. This tool requires no extra setup or costs. Our unattended access is further empowered by remote commands for easier actions like pausing and resuming kiosk mode, locking devices, and restarting devices.

A UI that's purpose built to simplify your tasks

With features being split across multiple tabs, Sophos doesn't offer the most user-friendly experience. For instance, the option to delay OS updates for iOS is found under Restrictions while the option to enforce iOS updates is under a totally different list of actions. To complicate things further, the same features are named differently across multiple OSs; for example, Android OS Updates are called System Updates.

On the other hand, ManageEngine strives to keep it's UI simplified and consistent across all its products, letting you easily access features that are logically grouped together.

Exhaustive cross-platform app management

Being able to develop apps and configure, distribute, and update them with a single workflow helps reduce time spent on app management. Integrating with multiple app stores is a major part of this process.

ManageEngine comes with comprehensive integration not just with app stores, but also with Zoho Creator—our in-house, low-code app development platform—and Zoho CRM SDK, using which you can build apps with custom workflows. We also have readily available APIs for integration with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms for distribution and version management.