Jamf Software - Eau Claire Wisconsin Office

Jamf is a software company best known for developing Jamf Pro (formerly The Casper Suite), a mobile device management system.

History

Minneapolis-based Jamf Software was founded in

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, Christopher Thon and Chip Pearson and in 2002 released The Casper Suite. The company name came from Laszlo Jamf, a character in

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''. Apple growth in larger environments continued and Jamf developed tools to make Apple devices work in corporate environments. Jamf received a $30 million investment from Summit Partners in 2008. In 2015 Dean Hager was hired as CEO to replace Halmstad and Pearson, who had previously shared those duties. Over a decade after its inception, The Casper Suite was rebranded as Jamf Pro in 2017. IBM selected Jamf Pro to manage their Macs in 2015. Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority of shares in Jamf in December 2017. Jamf acquired three companies in 2018 and 2019 – Orchard and Grove, ZuluDesk and Digita Security, expanding its product portfolio to include identity and authentication management, an education-specific MDM, and

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built for Mac using

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. Jamf had a successful

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on the Nasdaq stock market in July 2020, raising $468 million and valuing the company at around $4.6 billion. In May 2021 Jamf acquired zero-trust software vendor Wandera for $400M.

Products

Unless otherwise noted, all Jamf products support MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS. *Jamf Pro ( mobile device management) *Jamf Now (mobile device management) *Jamf School (mobile device management): Previously ZuluDesk. *Jamf Teacher *Jamf Connect ( identity management) *Jamf Protect (endpoint security) *Jamf Private Access (zero trust security model) *Jamf Data Policy (

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and

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)

Integration with Microsoft Intune

Jamf has a partnership with

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that allows Jamf Pro to communicate with

Intune Microsoft Intune (formerly Windows Intune) is a Microsoft cloud-based unified endpoint management service for both corporate and BYO devices. It extends some of the "on-premises" functionality of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager to the ...

. This partnership extended Microsoft Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Intune to

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. In 2020, the partnership expanded again to include iOS device compliance.

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History

Products

Integration with Microsoft Intune

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