PDQ.com acquires SimpleMDM, strikes into Apple gadget administration 

Home windows IT administration firm PDQ.com introduced the acquisition of SimpleMDM, an Apple gadget administration firm that makes use of an intuitive cloud interface. Monetary particulars of the deal weren’t launched.

The acquisition strikes PDQ.com into new territory: Mac and iOS software management. With its present capabilities centered solely round Home windows, the deal positions PDQ.com to turn out to be an environment friendly all-around techniques administration answer.

Conserving machines up to date is essential to their optimum efficiency. Inventories should be stored in tandem with the apps enterprises deploy, the model upgrades they make, and the patches they handle. Furthermore, an replace ought to replicate throughout all machines, irrespective of what number of there are. PDQ.com, earlier than the acquisition of SimpleMDM, may do that just for Home windows.

SimpleMDM covers the whole spectrum of Apple systems management. The gadget enrollment and account setup are hassle-free, the corporate says, promising a assist engineer is at all times out there inside half-hour.

Including Apple gadget administration by way of acquisition

PDQ.com already has a method in place on easy methods to use SimpleMDM’s capabilities. In line with CEO Dan Cook dinner, the mix of those two entities will improve PDQ’s present relationships with system admins to maintain “all sorts of units wholesome and up-to-date.” All the SimpleMDM ecosystem — together with its workers, prospects, and merchandise — will turn out to be a part of PDQ. Such a holistic takeover, Cook dinner stated, will fast-track development for PDQ.com.

The Home windows software program deployment and stock reporting capabilities of PDQ have two extremely regarded software program administration platforms that it runs for about 19,000 organizations: PDQ Deploy and PDQ Stock. PDQ’s options cowl the whole enterprise app set-up spectrum, and so they work with startups and multinational companies alike.

Organizations that use PDQ’s providers to maintain their machines up to date embrace the College of Utah, NASA, Coca-Cola, BMW, HBO, 3M, and others. PDQ goals to make the administration of its options as handy as doable; customers can obtain prebuilt packages, goal particular machines, and deploy them on their schedules.

The Apple gadget administration from SimpleMDM works very similar to PDQ.com’s does on Home windows; the one distinction is that it really works for Apple units solely. The software program works with the identical effectivity, SimpleMDM says, irrespective of what number of units are deployed.

SimpleMDM’s consumer base of three,000 targets macOS, tvOS, and iOS units. Its best-known purchasers embrace Rosetta Stone, Rip Curl, FedEx, Simplehuman, Deloitte, Discovery, and Weyerhaeuser.