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Ivanti Neurons for MDM
Your fleet runs five operating systems and a few rugged handhelds. Each phone should be checked before it reaches your data — Ivanti Neurons for MDM enrols and secures nine OS families from one cloud tenant, with threat defence and a per-app VPN — and EPMM on your own servers when the cloud is not an option.
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The Ivanti platform family
This page covers Ivanti Neurons for MDM — the cloud MDM, with on-prem EPMM covered alongside. The rest of the Ivanti family:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Cloud MDM for nine OS families, run by Ivanti as SaaS; formerly MobileIron Cloud
- Maker
- Ivanti, privately held (Clearlake, TA Associates, Charlesbank); CEO Dennis Kozak since January 2025
- On-prem option
- Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), formerly MobileIron Core, installed and patched by you
- Enrolment
- Apple Business Manager, Android Zero-Touch, Windows Autopilot and Samsung Knox Mobile Enrollment
- Modes
- Android work profile and kiosk, Apple user enrolment, rugged and wearable devices
- Price
- Not published; quoted per device or per user, and ivanti.com has no pricing page
- India
- No India landscape; Neurons regions are EU, APAC, Americas, Japan, Canada and EMEA
- Sovereign
- An EU Sovereign Edition runs in sector27’s German data centre (Q2 2026 release)
- Analysts
- A Leader in Gartner’s 2022 UEM Magic Quadrant, the last one Gartner published
- In India via
- TechBag — OS-mix scoping, cloud-vs-EPMM advice, quote in INR with GST
Understand mobile device management before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is a cloud MDM?
A hosted service that enrols company and personal devices, pushes policy and apps, and can lock or wipe a lost one.
Hand-built devices and a phone-wide VPN vs a security-led MDM — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Hand-built devices, phone-wide VPN | Ivanti Neurons for MDM |
|---|---|---|
| Getting a new device ready | IT unboxes, signs in and installs apps by hand | Zero-touch enrolment applies policy at first boot |
| Personal phones at work | Full control of the device, or no access at all | A work profile or user enrolment holds only company apps |
| A risky app or network | Noticed after the fact, if ever | MTD flags it and access can be cut on the spot |
| Reaching internal systems | A device-wide VPN for every app | Tunnel connects only the apps you approve |
| Who patches the server | Your team, on a weekend after an advisory | Ivanti, for the cloud tenant; you, if you stay on EPMM |
| What it is NOT | — | India-hosted, list-priced, or a desktop patching suite |
The cheapest test is a pilot: enrol one device of each type through its zero-touch route, flag one with MTD, and see what the user sees.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Tenant
Ivanti runs the service in one of six regional landscapes — EU, APAC, Americas, Japan, Canada or EMEA — and keeps it patched; you hold no server of your own.
Enrolment
Apple Business Manager, Android Zero-Touch, Autopilot and Knox hand devices to the tenant out of the box; work profiles and user enrolment cover personal phones.
Access
Mobile threat defence checks the device, Tunnel gives each app its own VPN, and Email+ keeps mail encrypted, so access depends on device, app and network state.
EPMM
For air-gapped or government estates, EPMM runs the same job on servers you own; Ivanti lists DoD APL, Common Criteria and FIPS 140-2/140-3 for it.
A cloud tenant in one of six regional landscapes — or EPMM on your own servers when the device data cannot leave.
Nine capabilities. Enrol, protect, operate.
Ivanti Neurons for MDM manages phones, tablets, laptops and rugged devices from one cloud tenant and checks each one for threats before it reaches company data.
Out of the box, already managed
Devices bought through Apple Business Manager, Android Zero-Touch, Autopilot or Knox reach the tenant at first boot, with policy applied.
Phones to headsets
Android, ChromeOS, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, watchOS and Windows share one console, along with rugged and wearable devices.
Work data kept apart
Android work profiles and Apple user enrolment separate corporate apps from personal ones, so IT never sees the owner’s photos or messages.
Threat checks on the phone
Mobile threat defence spots risky apps, networks and mishing — mobile-targeted fraud links — and can cut access until the device is clean.
A VPN per app, not per phone
Tunnel routes only approved apps to internal systems, on several OSes, so a personal browser never rides the corporate connection.
Access judged at the door
User, device, app and network conditions are verified before a session opens, rather than trusting any device that once enrolled.
Single-purpose devices
Kiosk mode locks shared tablets, scanners and rugged handhelds to the apps a shift needs, with Zebra Lifeguard support for Zebra fleets.
Passcodes moved to DDM
In the Q2 2026 release passcode policy runs as Apple declarative management, and a minimum OS version can be required at enrolment.
An enterprise storefront
Approved public and in-house apps are published to a company catalogue and pushed silently to supervised or fully managed devices.
Watch Ivanti Neurons for MDM in action
A full platform demo, mobile threat defence alongside MDM, and how Ivanti secures its own mobile fleet.
Complete Platform Demo: Ivanti Neurons for MDM & Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)
A walk through the Neurons for MDM console: enrolment, policies, apps and the wider UEM view.
Strengthen your mobile security with Ivanti Neurons for MDM and MTD
How mobile threat defence pairs with MDM to judge a phone’s risk before it reaches company data.
Ivanti. Powered by Ivanti: Securing Mobile Devices with Autonomous Endpoint Management
Ivanti’s own team on securing its mobile fleet with the products under the Autonomous Endpoint Management banner.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough for your environment?
Book a guided demo →Phones now carry company data everywhere. Ivanti checks each one before it gets in.
Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and exactly where it stops.
Breadth that reaches past phones
Ivanti lists nine operating systems — Android, ChromeOS, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, watchOS and Windows — plus rugged handhelds, wearables and head-mounted displays. Zero-touch arrives four ways: Apple Business Manager, Android Zero-Touch, Windows Autopilot and Samsung Knox Mobile Enrollment.
Security built into the mobile layer
Most MDMs stop at policy. Ivanti adds mobile threat defence, a per-app VPN called Tunnel, the Email+ client and zero-trust checks on user, device, app and network, so a compromised phone can be cut off from data rather than only flagged on a report someone reads later.
Cloud, on-prem or sovereign
The same vendor offers three homes: Neurons for MDM as SaaS, EPMM on your own servers with DoD APL, NIAP Common Criteria, FedRAMP and FIPS 140-2/140-3 listed, and since Q2 2026 an EU Sovereign Edition operated from sector27’s German data centre for public tenders.
Where it stops
No India landscape: the nearest is APAC. No public price. Apple DDM covers passcodes and an OS floor, with no documented declarative update enforcement. And EPMM, the on-prem path, had exploited zero-days in 2023, 2025 and 2026 — the cloud tenant is patched by Ivanti, EPMM by you.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Ivanti Neurons for MDM rollout looks like
Map the fleet and the rules
Count devices by OS and ownership, note rugged and kiosk units, and record any rule that names where device data must be stored.
Choose cloud or EPMM
Decide between the Ivanti tenant in the APAC landscape and EPMM on your own servers, weighing residency against patch duty.
Link the zero-touch accounts
Connect Apple Business Manager, Android Zero-Touch, Autopilot and Knox, then enrol a pilot group of each device type.
Switch on MTD and Tunnel
Turn on threat defence and per-app VPN for the pilot, set what blocks access, and test what users see when a phone is flagged.
Roll out and set the cadence
Enrol the rest by wave, set OS floors and passcode rules through DDM, and agree who reviews Ivanti advisories each month.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Our field tablets come through Knox and land in the tenant already locked to the dispatch app. Nobody touches them in the depot.”
“Tunnel let our banking app reach the core systems without putting the whole phone on a VPN. Auditors liked that line.”
“We manage iPads, Android scanners and a few Vision Pro units for training from the same console. That breadth sold it.”
“The tenant sits in the APAC landscape, not India. Our legal team needed a written note on that before they signed.”
“We moved off our old Core servers after the 2026 advisories. Patching the cloud is now Ivanti’s job, not our weekend.”
“Capable, but the console has a lot of corners and the quote took three calls. Smaller teams may find it heavy.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the UEM & MDM market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag UEM & MDM Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Quoted per device or user; no price on ivanti.com.
OS Breadth × Deployment Choice
The grid nobody publishes — how many device types and zero-touch routes it covers vs how many places it can run, on-prem and India included.
Nine OSes; SaaS, EPMM on-prem or EU sovereign.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Ivanti Neurons for MDM vs the UEM & MDM field
Against Microsoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE UEM, Scalefusion UEM, Hexnode UEM and 42Gears SureMDM — on deployment, OS coverage, enrolment, price, sovereignty and India.
| Dimension | Ivanti Neurons for MDM | Microsoft Intune | Omnissa Workspace ONE UEM | Scalefusion UEM | Hexnode UEM | 42Gears SureMDM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Security-led cloud MDM | Microsoft’s cloud UEM | Ex-VMware enterprise UEM | India-built UEM | Kiosk-strong UEM | Rugged-first UEM |
| Deployment | SaaS, or EPMM on-prem | Cloud service only | Cloud-hosted SaaS | Cloud, India-hosted | Cloud, three regions | Cloud or on-premise |
| OS coverage | 9 OS families | Five platforms | Six OS families | Six, incl. Linux | Mobile, desktop, TV | Widest device list |
| Apple enrolment and DDM | ABM; DDM for passcode | ADE and documented DDM | DDM updates since 2406 | ABM plus DDM | ABM; DDM partial | ABM; DDM from macOS 15 |
| Android Enterprise | Zero-Touch, work profile | Full AE depth | AMAPI or custom DPC | Zero-touch and Knox | Knox and AE modes | Zebra-grade rugged |
| Windows enrolment | Autopilot | Autopilot, natively | Autopilot, Drop Ship | Autopilot-friendly | Real Windows MDM | Windows provisioning |
| Kiosk and BYOD | Both, plus wearables | Dedicated and BYOD | Work profile, kiosk | Frontline kiosk | Kiosk is its signature | SureLock bundled |
| Pricing model | Per device or user | Per user, or bundled | Per device or per user | Per device, four tiers | Per device, tiered | Per device, two plans |
| Published entry price | Not published | $8/user/month | $3.00/device/month | ~$2/device/month | $2.20/device/month | $3.99/device/month |
| Included vs add-on | Ask what tiers include | Suite costs extra | Five tiers gate it | OneIdP, Veltar extra | Tier sets the depth | Kiosk apps included |
| Regulated and sovereign | DoD APL, EU sovereign | Government clouds | Not on product page | India-hosted cloud | US, EU or UAE | Regions or on-prem |
| India data storage | No India landscape | India geo on offer | Not published | Hosted in India | No India DC | India region offered |
| Lock-in and exit | Re-enrol to leave | Tied to M365 | Hub app to unwind | Agent and add-ons | Standard re-enrol | Kiosk config stays |
| Best fit | Security-led fleets | Microsoft 365 shops | Large mixed estates | Indian frontline fleets | Low-cost mixed fleets | Rugged and IoT fleets |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Ivanti Neurons for MDM if…
- ✓Your fleet spans Apple, Android, Windows and ChromeOS, and you want threat defence and per-app VPN in the same tenant
- ✓You may need an on-prem (EPMM) or EU sovereign route later, and want it from the same vendor
- ✓Rugged handhelds, Zebra devices or wearables sit alongside phones and laptops
Compare alternatives if…
- ✓Device data must be stored in India — Scalefusion and SureMDM offer Indian hosting, and ManageEngine has Indian data centres
- ✓You already own Microsoft 365 E3, E5 or Business Premium — Intune is likely paid for
- ✓You want a price you can read before a call — Hexnode, Scalefusion, SureMDM and Omnissa publish theirs
Do not expect…
- ✓An India landscape, or a public price list
- ✓Declarative Apple OS-update enforcement documented today — passcodes and an OS floor are
- ✓A current Gartner UEM Leader badge — the last MQ was 2022
Ivanti Neurons for MDM is one of 28 UEM & MDM products TechBag carries. The UEM & MDM guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What does hands-on device setup cost you?
Drag the sliders (managed devices; IT-admin hour cost). Estimates model hands-on time spent setting up, re-enrolling and troubleshooting devices at an assumed 1.5 hours per device a year, with 70% of it removed by zero-touch enrolment and central policy. Both figures are assumptions. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Quote-only: Ivanti publishes no price for Neurons for MDM or for on-prem EPMM, and ivanti.com has no pricing page. Licences are quoted per device or per user, and the quote should say which of mobile threat defence, Tunnel and Email+ it covers. Figures on third-party sites are estimates, not Ivanti’s price. TechBag counts your devices by OS first, then quotes in INR with GST.
Neurons for MDM (cloud)
Best for mixed fleets happy outside India
- Quoted per device or per user
- Ivanti hosts and patches the tenant
- Nearest landscape to India is APAC
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
EPMM (on-prem)
Best for air-gapped or in-country estates
- Quoted separately; runs on your servers
- DoD APL, NIAP CC, FIPS 140-2/140-3 listed
- You apply every security advisory
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
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The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Does any contract or rule require device data stored in India? Neurons has no India landscape; EPMM on your servers does.
Which of the nine OS families do you run, and how many rugged, kiosk or wearable devices sit among them?
Were your devices bought through channels linked to Apple Business Manager, Zero-Touch, Autopilot or Knox?
Does the quote name MTD, Tunnel, Email+ and zero-trust access, or only device management on its own?
Do you need declarative OS-update enforcement now? Ivanti documents DDM passcodes and an OS floor today.
If you choose EPMM, who applies Ivanti’s advisories, and how fast? Its 2026 interim patches did not survive upgrades.
Will personal phones use Android work profiles and Apple user enrolment, and have staff been told what IT can see?
Is the quote per device or per user, which add-ons are in it, and is it itemised in INR with GST?
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Ivanti Neurons for MDM?
Count your devices by OS and ownership first, or let a TechBag advisor settle cloud versus EPMM against your residency rules and scope a zero-touch pilot.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.