Apple Fleet Management Program
Your Apple Fleet Shouldn't Run on Spreadsheets and Hope
When you had 10 Macs, you could set them up by hand. Now you've got 50, 100, maybe more—and every new hire means another manual setup, every update is a fire drill, and you're never quite sure what's compliant and what isn't. The spreadsheet tracking serial numbers stopped being accurate six months ago. The last three laptop purchases were reactive, not planned. Someone just asked how many devices are encrypted and you had to guess.
This is what professional Apple device management solves. Not a tool you buy and install, but a continuous program that handles enrollment, policy, security, app delivery, and the forward-looking work most IT teams never get around to—warranty tracking, refresh planning, and retiring devices cleanly. We run it on Iru as the MDM backbone, and use Workbrew to keep development tooling consistent across engineering teams.
The Economics Nobody Talks About
Device Management Is a Line Item. Device Strategy Is a Multiplier.
Most teams look at Apple fleet costs as one number—what we paid for laptops this quarter. That misses where the actual money goes.
Time-to-Productivity
Every hour a new hire spends waiting on IT is an hour they aren't contributing. With automated enrollment, a new device is ready in under an hour—not a day and a half of back-and-forth tickets.
Refresh Cycle Discipline
Devices that die unexpectedly cost 2-3x what planned refreshes cost once you factor in lost work time and rush shipping. Proper fleet tracking turns surprise failures into predictable capital planning.
Compliance Evidence
Auditors don't accept "we think we're encrypted." A properly managed fleet produces evidence on demand—what's encrypted, what's patched, what's enrolled—instead of a week of scrambling before every review.
How This Fits Next to Our Other Services
Device management lives at a specific layer of the stack. Here's how it relates to the platform it runs on and the broader IT service it can be part of.
Iru (the platform)
The MDM we use to enforce policy, deliver apps, and secure endpoints. It's the tool, not the service. You could use it standalone if you want to run device management in-house.
Device Management (this page)
The service program that runs on top of the platform—strategy, policy, enrollment, ongoing operations, and fleet economics. A standalone engagement focused only on Apple devices.
Managed IT (the full stack)
Everything—help desk, network, cloud, security, device management, and strategic IT leadership as a single engagement. Device management is included by default.
Not sure which is the right starting point? Tell us about your environment and we'll point you to the one that actually fits.