Apple Business Manager with MDM simplifies deployment

Many of your business customers that are deploying devices in their organisation may ask, “Is Apple Business Manager just Apple’s MDM solution? Can’t I just deploy and manage everything with our existing MDM provider?” 

Here's a simply defined way of explaining the difference and a best practice recommendation...

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a third-party solution that enables IT admins to configure, manage, monitor and update iOS, iPadOS, macOS and tvOS devices over the air.

Apple Business Manager is an Apple service that works with MDM to automate device deployment, buy apps, distribute content, create Managed Apple IDs for employees and more.

The best way for IT to deploy and manage Apple devices is to use Apple Business Manager with an MDM solution. This combination saves time while increasing IT's level of control, allowing them to securely scale devices as a business changes. It also simplifies everything for employees, getting them up and running on their devices right out of the box... And let's face it, who doesn't love opening an Apple box and being the first one to touch their device (or is that just me...)

If you'd like to know more, you can read up here

https://www.apple.com/business/it/