Retail Barcode Scanner Management: How One Chain Cut Onboarding Time by 60%
A mid-sized retail chain locked down its Android barcode scanners with Headwind MDM, cutting onboarding time by 60% and IT workload by half.
Managed Tablets for Field Merchandisers: A Headwind MDM Case Study
Merchandisers installed games, tablets filled with clutter, and IT rebuilt every device by hand. Here is how one food distribution company brought its Android tablet fleet under control with Headwind MDM.
Headwind MDM vs Esper for Dedicated and AOSP Devices
Comparing Headwind MDM and Esper for dedicated Android and AOSP devices: agent installation, remote updates, and air-gapped operation.
The Most Common Mistake in Android MDM Rollouts
Rolling out a corporate app update can feel urgent, and it is the stage where the most common Android MDM rollout mistake happens. Your developers ship a security patch late on a Friday. A supervisor asks when it will reach the whole fleet. The obvious reaction is to deploy it…
MDM for Rugged Devices: A Heavy Industry Case Study
How a cement manufacturer used Headwind MDM to lock down 50 rugged tablets, cut repair trips, and run 20% more field inspections a week.
Headwind MDM vs Hexnode: Self-Hosted Open-Source Choice for Large Android Fleets
Headwind MDM vs Hexnode: a side-by-side comparison of self-hosted open-source Android MDM and cloud-based UEM. Deployment model, pricing, AOSP support, air-gapped networks, and kiosk mode compared.
Headwind MDM vs SOTI: Why Open Source MDM?
SOTI is an enterprise-grade device management platform built for large organizations running tens of thousands of devices across multiple operating systems and a mix of specialized hardware. The feature set is extensive – and the deployment cost reflects that. For companies that mostly run Android, that level of functionality is…
Top 5 Open Source MDM Solutions
When organizations start looking for the best open source MDM solutions, they often run into outdated recommendations. Imagine a regional retail chain with 1,000 Android price checkers and handheld scanners. Compliance requires all device data to remain on company-owned servers. Procurement finds commercial MDM subscriptions too expensive. The IT manager…
WiFi on Managed Android Devices: Provisioning, Kiosk Mode, and Network Control
Setting up WiFi on managed Android devices sounds trivial – until you have to do it across hundreds of units locked down in kiosk mode. What works fine on a personal phone – open Settings, pick a network, type a password – becomes a bottleneck at the scale of a…
Top 5 MDM Solutions for 2026: Is Open Source Still a Good Choice?
Mobile device management (MDM) solutions let an IT team enroll, configure, lock down, and update a fleet of devices from a single console. Android dominates the dedicated-device segment, kiosk and COSU fleets keep multiplying across retail and hospitality, and regulated industries are once again asking for on-premise deployments after years…