Jamf Kicks Off 2020 Virtual Jamf Nation User Conference, Showcasing How Its Apple Enterprise Management Platform Powers the F...
29 September 2020 - 4:00PM
Today, with over 15,000 Apple IT administrators around the world
attending virtually, Jamf (Nasdaq:JAMF) kicked off its 11th annual
Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC). With a theme of ‘a year like no
other’, Jamf showed how its Apple Enterprise Management platform is
enabling IT to digitally transform business, education and
healthcare and empower employees, nurses, doctors, educators and
students.
“2020 has been a year like no other. Workflows that were once
visionary, like zero-touch deployment and virtually educating
students or caring for patients, are now necessary,” said Dean
Hager, CEO, Jamf. “Jamf goes well beyond the MDM framework to fill
the gap between what Apple builds and what organizations require to
empower and serve their employees, students and patients. We are
proud of the work that Jamf Nation, the world’s largest online
community of Apple IT administrators, is leading in digitally
transforming their organizations.”
Work AnywhereCOVID-19 has spurred the greatest
movement of the workforce into their homes in history. IT teams
need to be able to ship new devices without touching them and allow
employees to work anywhere while staying secure and connected to
the resources they need. Jamf’s Apple Enterprise Management (AEM)
platform, the only AEM solution of scale that automates the entire
lifecycle of Apple in the enterprise, announced new key
functionality powering remote work including:
- Streamlined authentication and identity
management, biometric
security – IT needs to be confident that the right
person has access to their hardware and resources, and end users
can access everything they need to be productive with a single set
of cloud identity credentials. Jamf Connect has been re-built from
the ground up with a fresh take on the login and authentication
flow, providing a more native and Apple-like experience for end
users. The installer package was also simplified, making it easier
for IT admins to implement and deploy Jamf Connect to users. In
addition, instead of relying on another piece of unmanaged, costly
hardware such as a smart card to conduct multiple-factor
authentication, workers can employ a passwordless workflow using an
iPhone and Face ID or Touch ID to secure the Mac provisioning
process. This allows employees to leverage their Microsoft Azure AD
credentials on the Jamf Connect iOS app, and loads a certificate on
the iPhone, which is validated on a Bluetooth-paired Mac. Employees
can then utilize biometrics (e.g. Face ID or Touch ID) on their
iPhone (and a PIN number if required by the IT admin) to securely
unlock their Mac and access the resources they need. Beta for
the passwordless workflow will be available later this year, with
general availability expected in early 2021.While Jamf continues to
develop solutions that use cloud identity to provision devices,
macOS and iOS also contain Apple’s native Single Sign-On Extension
framework, which when used with an identity provider’s extension on
a managed device, can greatly improve the login experience to
enterprise applications. Today, Jamf demonstrated a preview of the
forthcoming Microsoft Enterprise SSO Plugin, which allowed for a
transparent Azure AD authentication while accessing the Jamf Self
Service portal.
- Extension of Microsoft partnership brings conditional
access to iOS devices – Jamf announced it has extended its
partnership with Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security by
launching iOS Device Compliance. Through this offering, available
today in preview and coming soon to all customers, organizations
are empowered to choose Jamf for iOS management while also sharing
important device information like compliance status with Microsoft
Endpoint Manager. IT teams can utilize the built-solely-for-Apple
Jamf features for Apple ecosystem management, while leveraging
conditional access to ensure that only
trusted users
from compliant
devices, using approved
apps, are able to access company data.
- Apple-specific endpoint protection
that secures
devices accessing resources from everywhere –This
year, Jamf showed critical new functionality within its
recently-launched enterprise endpoint protection solution Jamf
Protect, including broad malware prevention to identify and block
incidents on macOS, as well as unified log forwarding that allows
organizations to monitor extensive activity across their fleet in
real time without devices ever touching the corporate network.
“The COVID-19 pandemic acted like a stress test for our remote
management tools, and Jamf has lived up to the challenge,” said Joe
Steele, Head of Workplace Technology, Starling Bank. “We are now
able to allow employees to work remotely indefinitely because we
can connect them to what they need to be productive, then manage
and secure their devices. Jamf has future-proofed our workflows for
whatever comes next.”
Jamf also announced key updates to its Marketplace, the central
hub for customers to discover ways to extend their Jamf
environment. Today, the Marketplace has nearly 350 listings,
including recent integrations with Jira, ServiceNow and Splunk.
Updates include improved discoverability, more prominent features
on what’s new in the marketplace and direct access to the tools IT
needs to make custom configuration much easier.
Care Anywhere Jamf announced a new telehealth
workflow aimed at protecting providers while still connecting
patients to the care they need and the communities they love –
virtually. In this year like no other, healthcare organizations
around the world can use Virtual Visits powered by Jamf to
configure and instantly deploy third-party conferencing platforms
like Zoom and Microsoft Teams to iPad or iPhone. Providers are able
to easily virtually round to their patients, and patients can
simply connect with loved ones outside the hospital - without IT
ever having to touch the device. Further, once patients are
discharged, Virtual Visits can help automatically digitally wipe
the device to prepare it for the next patient. This new workflow
can limit the amount of PPE care teams use during each patient
encounter, while still enabling them to provide quality care.
“With Virtual Visits, we can facilitate an easy way for patients
to stay connected without the technology being overly complicated
in order to improve the patient experience,” said Holly Panting, IT
Project Manager, Oxford Health. “With the flexibility provided by
Jamf, it allows us to deploy and manage these devices easily. We
can now spin up these solutions quickly and get them deployed
safely.”
Learn AnywhereSchools needed to pivot to
distance learning quickly this spring, and for the 2020-2021 school
year, they need to power hybrid programs but be ready to shift to
virtual in a moment’s notice. Jamf announced Learn Anywhere, its
complete solution for empowering education whether teachers are ten
feet or ten miles from students. Learn Anywhere includes new
features that help educators communicate with students, use
engaging resources and assess learning objectives from any
environment, including:
- Remote Class - Unique ability for teachers to
launch a virtual classroom or one-to-one meeting with students in
only one click using trusted conference platforms like Zoom,
Microsoft Teams or Google Meet.
- Raise Hand - When a student gets stuck and
doesn't know where to go, they sometimes need help from their
teacher directly. Raise Hand allows students to digitally engage
teachers with a question or alert them to an issue, as if they were
sitting face-to-face in a classroom.
- Jamf Assessment – Before now, there was not a
fully compliant method to administer proctored exams in a virtual
world. With the Jamf Assessment app, the proctor is able to see
both a live recording of the screen and video of the student
through the camera. It is completely configurable through Jamf Pro
or Jamf School to allow you to customize background colors, specify
the online test site and adjust the width of your video and exam
windowpanes. Now students are able to take college placement
or any other high-stakes assessments even when forced to learn from
home, allowing them to continue building their future.
- Jamf Teacher, Jamf Parent and
Jamf School Student
apps – The integrated easy-to-use Jamf Teacher, Jamf
Student and Jamf Parent apps enable better teacher to student
communication and empower parents to get more involved in their
children’s education and device usage.
“Jamf allowed us to transition our district from in-class
learning to distance learning in 24 hours,” said Jacob Luevano,
Innovative Teaching Strategist, Manor Independent School District.
“Many students who didn’t have access to apps, resources and all
the benefits of modern technology, now do. This allows them to
better engage with their peers and teachers, and empowers them to
seamlessly transition from classroom to home with their Apple
device in hand.”
The Jamf Teacher app is now available for Jamf Pro customers,
and both the Jamf Teacher and Jamf School Student apps will be
available for Jamf School customers on macOS soon.
Jamf also announced that it used a portion of its IPO proceeds,
in partnership with several of its banking partners and financial
sponsors, to launch four new Apple Classrooms, called Innovation
Hubs. Collaborating with Urban Ventures, whose mission is to end
urban poverty, and MATTER ngo, an NGO helping people launch ideas
that improve communities, Jamf and its financial sponsors announced
plans to launch Innovation Hubs in Minneapolis and St. Paul,
Minnesota, and Zimbabwe, Africa. These Hubs will be equipped with
Apple technology for classroom and after-school programming
designed to prepare kids for college and careers. In addition, Jamf
and Urban Ventures are launching a Mobile Innovation Hub. Designed
specifically to travel to under-equipped partner schools throughout
Minneapolis, the Mobile Innovation Hub will be equipped with
collaboration spaces, iPads, Apple TVs, Sphero balls, flying drones
and learning applications to augment school curriculum across
several subjects, including coding.
About JamfJamf, the standard in Apple
Enterprise Management, extends the legendary Apple experience
people love to businesses, schools and government organizations
through its software and the world’s largest online community of IT
admins focused exclusively on Apple, Jamf Nation. To learn more,
visit: www.jamf.com.
Media Contact:Rachel
Nauenmedia@jamf.com
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