Big Benefits for Every Department
It's all about device choice
Create a work environment that drives a creative and motivated workforce.
Employee Choice
It’s all about the user
Listen to your users
To provide a seamless work/life balance, it’s great to be able to provide a technology workplace for your users that empowers them with the same user experience at work as they do at home.
Secure Talent
Having Apple technology on the table could be that clincher when new recruits or graduates are considering job offers. Offering Mac as part of your Employee Choice programme could enhance the digital employee experience.
Did you know?
A recent PwC survey¹ showed that 78% of millennials believe that having access to the technology they like at work makes them more effective in their job.
75% said they would
A recent Jamf Employee Choice survey² showed that, when given the choice, roughly 3 out of 4 employees would choose Apple for use at work
Why are people including Mac as part of their Employee Choice
Reduced IT Burden
- 33% fewer engineers are required to manage the Mac programme than the Windows PC programme³
Boost Productivity
3 out of 4 employees prefer Apple¹ when given a choice, leading to higher retention and engagement.
Robust Security
Every Mac comes with encryption with built-in protection against malware and viruses, a powerful firewall system and automatic security updates.
Employee experience
With simple zero-touch deployments, your people can be up and running within minutes.
HR
Giving choice helps attract & retain talent
Providing choice helps improve the digital employee experience
Providing choice helps improve the digital employee experience
IT
Achieve zero-touch deployments
Instant reduction in support tickets³
Significantly less hardware issues³
Instant reduction in support tickets³
Significantly less hardware issues³
C-Suite
Be recognised as a company that provides choice for your people
Streamline OPEX budget
Sweat assets longer
Operate a circular IT model
Streamline OPEX budget
Sweat assets longer
Operate a circular IT model
Why Academia?
Put simply – we’ll give you the best solution with the best service.
Together with a bit of Apple expertise, service delivery and really good support!
Cost-effective solutions for making Mac part of your Employee Choice programme
There are many ways for businesses to adopt, deploy and manage Apple. Academia can provide the commercial and technical guidance from Discovery Workshops through to refresh.
Academia listens to its customers, so we’ve created service options that help deploy and manage Employee Choice within businesses.
1. Done BY You
You manage your devices and get you up and running
We will procure your MDM licences
Set you up with our Quickstart Training Session
2. Done WITH You
You manage your devices and we’ll provide some MDM support for your IT Team
We will procure your MDM licences
Set you up with our Quickstart Training Session
Provide your IT Team with escalation Support
3. Done FOR You
We’ll manage all of your devices for you with our fully-managed service covering:
MDM Software Platform
MDM Platform Management & Support
Unlimited Helpdesk – Proactive Support
ASM / ABM Support
Enrolment, Custom Configuration & Profile Management
Patch Management & Version Control
Application Packaging & Deployment
Identity & Access Management Integration
Custom System integrations and Preference Lists
Quarterly Service Reviews
Repairs
We can repair all in-warranty Apple devices and we achieve a high CSAT score for our awesome service.
The Total Economic Impact of Mac™ in Enterprise Survey 2024
In a study commissioned by Apple and delivered by Forrester Consulting, decision-makers from nine enterprise customers with experience using Mac were surveyed, and the benefits enabled by Mac were found to include:
* Reduced device support and management costs
* Reduced and avoided hardware, software, and energy costs.
* Reduced risk of a data breach
* Increased employee productivity due to device performance and reliability
* Higher device residual value
* Reduced device support and management costs
* Reduced and avoided hardware, software, and energy costs.
* Reduced risk of a data breach
* Increased employee productivity due to device performance and reliability
* Higher device residual value
Forrester aggregated the experiences of the interviewees and survey respondents, combined the results into a single composite organisation and modelled a saving of $547 per Mac compared to PC over a 5 year lifecycle.
The full results are now available in the Forrester publication “The Total Economic Impact™ of Mac in Enterprise” where customers can also customise the analysis and estimate the potential impact of deploying Mac in their own organisation.
The full results are now available in the Forrester publication “The Total Economic Impact™ of Mac in Enterprise” where customers can also customise the analysis and estimate the potential impact of deploying Mac in their own organisation.
| Sources |
| 1 PwC / 2011 Millennials at Work: Reshaping the Workplace | 2 Jamf/2016 Employee Choice Program Survey | 3 Jamf Mac in the Enterprise White Paper |
Sources
1 PwC / 2011 Millennials at Work: Reshaping the Workplace | 2 Jamf/2016 Employee Choice Program Survey | 3 Jamf Mac in the Enterprise White Paper
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