# Unified endpoint management for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026 Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "unified endpoint management platform" and as "device management tool for laptops and phones", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/unified-endpoint-management/enterprise **Standing:** Microsoft Intune leads with 86% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 49 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts. ## First-choice share | Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [Microsoft Intune](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/microsoft-intune/index.md) | 86% | 14% | 80 | | 2 | [ManageEngine Endpoint Central](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/manageengine-endpoint-central/index.md) | 8% | 12% | 48 | | 3 | [Omnissa Workspace ONE](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/omnissa-workspace-one/index.md) | 4% | 14% | 74 | | 4 | [Hexnode UEM](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/hexnode-uem/index.md) | 2% | 20% | 20 | | 5 | [Jamf](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/jamf/index.md) | 0% | 14% | 56 | | 6 | [Ivanti Neurons for UEM](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/ivanti-neurons-for-uem/index.md) | 0% | 24% | 38 | | 7 | [IBM MaaS360](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/ibm-maas360/index.md) | 0% | 12% | 24 | | 8 | [SOTI MobiControl](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/soti-mobicontrol/index.md) | 0% | 15% | 13 | | 10 | [BlackBerry UEM](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/blackberry-uem/index.md) | 0% | 17% | 12 | | 13 | [NinjaOne](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/ninjaone/index.md) | 0% | 26% | 23 | Rank is by share of first choices among all 60 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels. ## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt - Claude Haiku 4.5: Omnissa Workspace ONE; alternatives HCL BigFix, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune - GPT-5.4 mini: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE - Gemini 3.5 Flash: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE, Tanium - Perplexity Sonar: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE - Grok 4.20: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE - Mistral Small: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Omnissa Workspace ONE - DeepSeek V4 Flash: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE - Llama 4 Maverick: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Hexnode UEM, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE - Qwen 3.7 Flash: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Kandji, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SOTI ONE - Kimi K2: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Omnissa Workspace ONE - GLM 4.7 FlashX: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Ivanti Secure UEM, Omnissa Workspace ONE - MiniMax M2.5: Microsoft Intune; alternatives 42Gears SureMDM, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, SentinelOne - GPT-6 Luna: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE - Muse Glimmer 30B: Microsoft Intune; alternatives Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SOTI MobiControl ## Sources the answers cite 76 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers: - cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com: 26 answers, 26 citations - peerspot.com: 23 answers, 49 citations - aimultiple.com: 23 answers, 23 citations - microsoft.com: 22 answers, 51 citations - cybersecuritynews.com: 22 answers, 22 citations - blog.scalefusion.com: 20 answers, 22 citations - ninjaone.com: 20 answers, 22 citations - venn.com: 19 answers, 23 citations Pages named in the most answers: - https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/final/en-us/microsoft-brand/documents/idc-marketscape-worldwide-unifed-endpoint-management-software-2024-vendor-assessment-microsoft-2024-07-04.pdf (22 answers) - https://cybersecuritynews.com/best-uem-solutions (22 answers) - https://aimultiple.com/uem-software (21 answers) - https://legacy-us-images.foundryco.app/assets/2024/02/computerworld-uem-vendors-compared-2024.pdf (19 answers) - https://blog.scalefusion.com/best-uem-solutions (17 answers) - https://ninjaone.com/blog/best-endpoint-management-software (16 answers) - https://syncrosecure.com/blog/unified-endpoint-management-tools (16 answers) - https://action1.com/blog/endpoint-management/best-uem-software (13 answers) - https://gbhackers.com/best-uem-solutions-compared (13 answers) - https://selecthub.com/c/unified-endpoint-management-tools (13 answers) ## Warned against - Microsoft Intune: 11 of 80 labels negative. "makes Intune the highest-risk MDM choice for Essential Entities requiring supply-chain independence." (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt) - Ivanti Neurons for UEM: 9 of 38 labels negative. "The Ivanti Connect Secure family is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog ... guidance to apply mitigations or discontinue use if mitigations are unavailable." (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt) - Omnissa Workspace ONE: 10 of 74 labels negative. "Vendor instability post-divestiture | Support quality drops, roadmap uncertainty, high exit cost" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt) - Jamf: 8 of 56 labels negative. "The global MDM market is dominated by four US-headquartered vendors: Jamf (Minnesota) ... US corporate parentage creates unavoidable CLOUD Act exposure." (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt) ## Movement since October 2026 Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat. Same leader: Microsoft Intune at 86%. - ManageEngine Endpoint Central: 0% to 8%, +8. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 7 → 2 of 60. - Omnissa Workspace ONE: 10% to 4%, −6. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 2 → 3 of 60. - Microsoft Intune: 85% to 86%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 1 of 60, unchanged. - Hexnode UEM: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 4 of 60, unchanged. - Jamf: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 5 of 60, unchanged. - Ivanti Neurons for UEM: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 6 of 60, unchanged. - IBM MaaS360: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 8 → 7 of 60. - SOTI MobiControl: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 10 → 8 of 60. - BlackBerry UEM: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 18 → 10 of 60. - NinjaOne: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 9 → 13 of 60. ## Record - Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology - License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.