Getting started with IBM MaaS360 across industries
IBM MaaS360 delivers Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) capabilities that help organizations secure, configure, and manage diverse device fleets from mobile phones to rugged industrial devices through a centralized cloud‑based console. These capabilities support rapid onboarding, policy configuration, compliance enforcement, and integration with enterprise identity and security tools.
IBM MaaS360 serves organizations across industries
Manufacturing: Frontline workers, rugged devices, OEM Configuration and Kiosk
Operation system and device types
- iOS and iPadOS
- Android (including Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and non-Google Mobile Services (GMS) devices)
- Windows 10 and Windows 11
- macOS
- Rugged devices
- On-premises and remote corporate-owned devices
- Personal laptops and desktops
IBM MaaS360 Portal
IBM MaaS360 is a comprehensive mobile device management solution for monitoring and managing smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices from a web-based portal. The IBM MaaS360 Portal supports portal administration functions, device management, software distributions, policy self-service, and device compliance functions.
For more information, see Getting started with the IBM MaaS360 Portal.
- IBM MaaS360 customer account
To get started with the IBM MaaS360 customer account for the first time, you need to configure all the essential configurations on Quick Start wizard. For more information, see Configuring the Quick Start for the first time.
- Enrollment
To enroll the device and enrollment instructions, see Configuring directory and enrollment settings in the IBM MaaS360 Portal.
- User directory
To view the user directory where all users that are created in IBM MaaS360, see Using the User Directory.
- Security policies
To assign the security policy that helps devices comply with corporate security policies, see IBM MaaS360 security policies overview.
- Applications and App Catalog
To manage app management lifecycle for your enterprise workforce, see Apps.
- Security (Data Loss Prevention (DLP)) and Compliance (geofencing)
To validate the compliance of an app, see IBM MaaS360 security policies overview, and go to Application Compliance section in individual component policy configurations.
For example,
For iOS MDM policy, see Application Compliance and for supervised, see Application Compliance (Supervised).
- Endpoint security
To manage endpoint security for IBM MaaS360, see Endpoint security for IBM MaaS360.