Jamf Software - Eau Claire Wisconsin Office

Jamf Holding Corp. is a software company best known for developing Jamf Pro (formerly The Casper Suite), a

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system.

History

Minneapolis-based Jamf Software was founded in

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, by Zach Halmstad, 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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's novel ''

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''. Apple's growth in larger environments continued and Jamf developed tools to make Apple devices work in corporate environments. Jamf received a $30 million investment from

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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.

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selected Jamf Pro to manage their Macs in 2015.

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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. As of December 31, 2022, the company reported servicing approximately 71,000 active customers globally. Furthermore, Jamf's technology is deployed on roughly 30 million Apple devices worldwide.

Products

Unless otherwise noted, all Jamf products support macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS. *Jamf Pro (

) *Jamf Now (mobile device management) *Jamf School (mobile device management): Previously ZuluDesk. *Jamf Teacher *Jamf Connect (

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) *Jamf Protect (

) *Jamf Safe Internet (internet filter and endpoint security for schools) *Jamf Private Access (zero trust security model) *Jamf Data Policy (internet filter 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. This partnership extended

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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

See also

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