We love hearing how we make IT teams' lives easier. 🩵 Thank you for sharing your journey with us across three companies. Hearing that device management has gone from "constant friction" to something that "just works" is exactly why we built Iru the way we did. Honored to be that solution. 🙌
IT & Ops Lead 💻⚙️ | Building modern tech stacks and business operations that don’t suck | 🦍 Data Ranger at Gorilla
Last week I completed a migration from Jamf to Iru (formerly Kandji) at Gorilla - Energy Margin Intelligence, marking the third time I’ve done this in my career... I first started working with Apple devices back in 2017 at method products pbc. That was also when I met Jamf for the first time. Even then, it felt clunky and dated: a very 2010-feeling interface, lots of disconnected components, hard-to-follow workflows and dependencies, and a heavy reliance on patchy documentation. It got the job done, but it was manual, time-consuming, and never something I could just flow in. Then I moved on to Ruth Miskin Training, we were also on Jamf, and the challenges became clearer at scale: 😣 Limited visibility into our fleet 😣 Painful to see who was missing updates or had security issues 😣 Basic device views and filters often meant exporting reports and stitching together data 😣 Innovation felt slow compared to where the Apple ecosystem was heading In early 2019 I was introduced to what’s now Iru and had a demo with. It absolutely flipped my expectations of what an Apple MDM could be: 🤩 A clean, intuitive, modern UI 🤩 Drag-and-drop style workflows instead of fragile chains of components 🤩 Auto-apps so I didn’t have to stress about patching 🤩 Blueprint-style configuration that actually made sense 🤩 Endpoint protection built in for Apple (came later!) Most importantly, it felt like one cohesive product, built from the ground up, not an amalgamation of acquired tools bolted together. Since then I’ve led Iru deployments or optimisations at three different companies, most recently migrating our fleet at Gorilla. The impact has been huge: 💥 Device onboarding that just works 💥 Proper visibility over the entire Apple fleet in a single view 💥 Patching and updates that run like clockwork 💥 Policies, reporting, and endpoint protection all in one place MDM has gone from being a constant source of friction on my plate to something I can largely trust to “just work”, so I can focus on higher-value problems. For transparency: I’m absolutely not paid by Iru to say any of this! I’m just a very happy three-time customer who’s spent too many hours wrestling with legacy tools. It does leave me wondering: with Iru moving so quickly, what does Jamf need to do to truly keep up – and will it? 🤔 #AppleMDM #SaaS #ITManagement #EndpointSecurity #IRU #Jamf