Jamf

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Jamf Holding Corp.
Company type Public company
Industry
Founded2002;22 years ago (2002) in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, U.S.
Founders
Headquarters
Minneapolis, Minnesota
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
John Strosahl (CEO)
Products Proprietary software
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$478.8 million (2022)
Increase2.svg US$359.5 million (2022)
Decrease2.svg −US$138.9 million (2022)
Number of employees
2,500 (2022)
Website jamf.com
Footnotes /references
Financials as of October 28,2023 [1]
Jamf offices in Eau Claire, Wisconsin Jamf Software - Eau Claire Wisconsin Office.jpg
Jamf offices in Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Jamf is a software company best known for developing Jamf Pro (formerly The Casper Suite), a mobile device management system. [2]

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History

Minneapolis-based Jamf Software was founded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, by Zach Halmstad, Christopher Thon and Chip Pearson [3] and in 2002 released The Casper Suite. [4] The company name came from Laszlo Jamf, a character in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow . [3] Apple growth in larger environments continued and Jamf developed tools to make Apple devices work in corporate environments. [5] Jamf received a $30 million investment from Summit Partners in 2008. [6]

In 2015 Dean Hager was hired as CEO to replace Halmstad and Pearson, who had previously shared those duties. [7] Over a decade after its inception, The Casper Suite was rebranded as Jamf Pro in 2017. [8]

IBM selected Jamf Pro to manage their Macs in 2015. [9]

Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority of shares in Jamf in December 2017. [10] Jamf acquired three companies in 2018 and 2019 – Orchard and Grove, [11] ZuluDesk [12] and Digita Security [13] – expanding its product portfolio to include identity and authentication management, an education-specific MDM, and endpoint security built for Mac using user behavior analytics. Jamf had a successful IPO on the Nasdaq stock market in July 2020, raising $468 million and valuing the company at around $4.6 billion. [14] In May 2021 Jamf acquired zero-trust software vendor Wandera for $400M. [15] As of December 31, 2022, the company reported servicing approximately 71,000 active customers globally. Furthermore, Jamf's technology is deployed on roughly 30 million Apple devices worldwide.

Products

Unless otherwise noted, all Jamf products support MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS.

Integration with Microsoft Intune

Jamf has a partnership with Microsoft that allows Jamf Pro to communicate with Intune. [16] This partnership extended Microsoft Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Intune to macOS. [17] In 2020, the partnership expanded again to include iOS device compliance. [18]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Apple Device Management: Jamf Pro FAQ". The University of Minnesota. January 1, 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  3. 1 2 "No Money, No Problem Bootstrapping Off Of Apple". Forbes. November 24, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
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  18. ↑ "Extending our Microsoft partnership with Device Compliance for iOS". www.jamf.com. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
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