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Index › Vendors › Apple Business Manager · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Apple Business Manager

2Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

1 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Apple Business Manager was named 1 time in Workforce identity, where Microsoft Entra ID led with 36%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market29 of 48

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In workforce identity · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Apple Business Manager for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Workforce identity and SSO	Identity and access	0%	29 of 48	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Entra ID at 36%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Apple Business Manager yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Apple Business Manager across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Similar risk—deep integration within their respective ecosystems but limited flexibility” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce identity · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Apple Business Manager, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Apple Business Manager was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BlueTally1 of 21Not in the top three

Authelia1 of 20Not in the top three

Cloudaware1 of 20Not in the top three

CyberArk Identity1 of 20Not in the top three

ForgeRock1 of 20Not in the top three

Gluu1 of 20Not in the top three

GoCodes1 of 20Not in the top three

Google Workspace1 of 20Not in the top three

HCL BigFix1 of 20Not in the top three

InvGate Asset Management1 of 20Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Apple Business Manager. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 2 answers that named Apple Business Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com2

1kosmos.com1

alvao.com1

bitwarden.com1

blog.rsisecurity.com1

blog.simptel.com1

cloudaware.com1

computerweekly.com1

curity.io1

forbes.com1

Eleven of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Apple Business Manager came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

1kosmos.com/resources/blog/workforce-identity-verification-vendor-category1

alvao.com/en/blog/it-asset-management-struggles-smbs1

bitwarden.com/resources/workforce-iam-strengthening-identity-and-access1

blog.rsisecurity.com/should-you-use-professional-or-open-source-iam-tools1

blog.simptel.com/open-source-vs-saas-identity-platforms-weighing-the-pros-and-cons1

cloudaware.com/blog/asset-management-tools1

computerweekly.com/opinion/What-is-wrong-with-ITAM1

curity.io/blog/which-is-best-for-iam-build-open-source-or-buy1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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