Unified endpoint management
The modern enterprise is an assortment of devices ranging from user-owned smartphones to corporate-controlled desktop PCs. It doesn't matter where the devices come from. If users work with them, IT must manage them. Unified endpoint management aims to simplify that process by giving IT pros a single location to manage all device types.
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