Mac specialist Addigy has increased their support for MSPs in the Mac market with the announcement of their new Prebuilt App Catalogue, a real-time solution that reduces difficulty for any MSP to manage popular macOS apps across all clients’ devices while protecting against zero-day vulnerabilities and third-party app patching security concerns.
MSPs are largely PC-centric. This excludes them from the increase in Mac devices, because they are struggling to keep up with the influx of Mac devices in their customers’ and prospects’ businesses. They leave money on the table because they don’t have the expertise or bandwidth to manage and secure them. Miami-based Addigy, which makes multi-tenanted management software for all types of Apple devices, has sold them through an MSP channel, which broadened out significantly since their first distribution deal, with Pax8 in 2021. Now Addigy has increased their support for MSPs in the Mac market with the announcement of their new Prebuilt App Catalogue, a real-time solution that makes it easy for any MSP to manage popular macOS apps across all clients’ devices while protecting against zero-day vulnerabilities and third-party app patching security concerns.
Addigy’s prebuilt App Catalogue is built for simplicity, engineered for security, and designed for scale. These powerful and rapidly expanding prebuilt apps deliver an easy, script-free way to manage macOS application lifecycles while protecting against zero-day vulnerabilities and third-party app patching security concerns. With just a click of a button, IT admins and MSPs deploy, update, and manage software across Apple fleets.
“Many IT teams spend inordinate amounts of time trying to manage macOS applications,” said Jason Dettbarn, Addigy’s Founder and CEO. “With apps updating on their own schedules, the need to track down the latest versions, write deployment scripts, and handle distracting pop-ups while ensuring user permissions, can seem never-ending.”
Addigy’s curated catalogue of the most commonly used apps is searchable and filterable. This makes it easy to deploy and update apps with a single click. Each prebuilt app includes all necessary MDM [Mobile Device Management] profiles, such as system extensions and Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) profiles, ensuring a seamless end-user experience. IIT and MSPs enjoy effortless zero-day vulnerability protection and safeguard against third-party app patching security issues with their ‘set it and forget it’ approach.
“Now, with Addigy’s prebuilt apps, internal IT and MSPs have the flexibility to just ‘set and forget’,” Dettbarn said. “Confident users have updated applications that meet security and compliance requirements, without manual effort or scripting.”
“Deploying software updates, even just for Chrome, used to take me hours each week,” said Marshall Lewis, Remote Management Specialist at Cranston IT. “With Addigy, it literally takes 10 seconds.”
The curated catalogue is a growing library of the most commonly used Mac apps, curated and maintained by Addigy. It frees up time previously spent on app patching and compliance while staying in control of update timing for all apps. It easily customizes premium Apple support by easily customizing update strategies for each client without any scripting or MDM profile knowledge required. It deploys and updates apps automatically, with version control and customizable update schedules. The compliance-driven catalogue lets you set update deadlines to ensure your organization’s compliance goals are always met.
Users can choose either an auto-update with Continuous Monitoring, or a fixed app version.
Prebuilt apps check every 30 minutes if an app needs an update, setting once to ensure devices always have the latest, most secure software. The update only app can update any app already on the device, even unmanaged ones. It lets you keep existing user-installed apps like Spotify with its web browsers up to date, without enforcing installation across all devices. This also makes it easy to demonstrate Executive Proof of Value, because it’s easy to easily share monthly reports.
There are also no end-user prompts. Preconfigured profiles (including PPPC and system extensions) eliminate pop-ups and user prompts during installation and updates.
All complexity is handled by Addigy. There are no custom scripts or manual packaging needed.
Addigy’s Prebuilt App Catalog is expanding every week, in accordance with real-world demand and security trends.
