“‘All we see is growth,’ says Blaine Mattson, director of sales and marketing for JAMF Software, a Minneapolis software company that develops products for the Apple environment. ‘They paved a great highway, and now we are driving down it,'” Blum reports.
Because I saw too much cool stuff to narrow it down to five, here are my six top picks for small-business tech tools for all things Apple:
• Fuze
• Beejive
• IntelliScanner Soho
• DocMoto
• MacScan
• Casper Suite
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JES42” for the heads up.]
Nothing I need and nothing I desire in this story.
BeeJive is simply awesome for iPhone/Touch. Cheaper than the BB version.
I can’t beleive MDN didn’t see the plug in that article pedaling MacScan (MacScam) as one of those apps. Anti Virus software and fear rhetoric for OSX? I don’t think so.
@Jubei,
It’s cheaper than the BlackBerry version because the developers didn’t have to buy migraine medicine.
Driver … malware for the Mac is on its way. Which is a negative way of saying “it isn’t HERE … YET”. And … I don’t see how you can protect against something you have yet to experience. Sure … there WILL be malware for the Mac. It may look much like malware for Windows, which MacScan and the like may protect you from, or (more likely) it will look entirely new, and nothing yet invented will protect you.
Nothing on the list interests me. Which doesn’t mean the stuff is bad, or useless, or unworthy of mention … it means “I am retired”.
Driver,
In a business environments, unless you’re lucky enough to be in an all-Mac shop, such software is a good idea in order to keep the unaffected Macs from passing on malware to the Windows PCs on the LAN.
We want Macs to be deployed, not tagged as “Typhoid Marys” by the corp. IT guys.
“DocMoto: Approximately $1,200 per seat”
Isn’t this a little steep for ‘small’ business?
And just how, other than a email attachment, could a Mac pass one on? Which is easily solved just by making sure the company’s MAIL SERVER runs anti-virus software. Sorry, AntiVirus software on the Mac is still more problematic than good at the desktop level. Consider it more reason for a shop to go ALL Mac in the first place.
And yes I have had a MS Word/Excel virus on my Mac under System 6/7 back in the day. SE/30. I’ve also supported Macs in a mixed environment back in the 90’s. Parks & Wildlife department to be specific.
Or was the article supposed to be titled 6 pieces of software you don’t need?
1. Small business videoconferencing on an iPhone? Does it come with a mirror because the camera is on one side and the screen is on the other. And for $0 per month per seat we can use AOL or iChat….not $29/month per person.
2. “There way too many IM clients out there”….so here’s another one!
3. A scanner to manage the inventory we don’t carry. We can store that next to the cash register we don’t have. I might grant this one an OK if you have a “small” business that actually has an inventory to manage. Let’s face it, scanners are just plain cool.
4. “a central file repository that any user can reach…Approximately $1,200 per seat.” Hmmm, or you can buy a Mac mini and be done. Hmmm, decisions, decisions.
5. “major viruses remain mostly a theoretical problem for Apple, Mac owners do now face threats from broader nasties like malicious cookies, spyware and keystroke loggers.” Um, what spyware would that be? What havoc is being wrought on Macs by “malicious” instead of “delicious” cookies? What keystroke loggers are being installed by anyone who does not already have Admin access? Mac users are not “facing” these threats.
6. “active management of user identities and software upgrades, and enables admins to manage their Macs from their iPhones.” If you have more than a few employees, OK, I might allow this one.
This list should include Quickbooks 2009 Mac, a program that comes with absolutely ZERO free support, even with installation issues that are the fault of Intuit. A piece of software that you will definitely need and then never be able to extricate yourself because no competing program can import your years of QB data. It’s the Hotel California Tar Baby on steroids and heroin!