The number of devices in the workplace has increased to a great extent in the past couple of years. Though they have helped in boosting the productivity of workers their deployment process brings in many challenges such as the selection of the right hardware, OS compatibility and configuring policies. Until recently, the mass enrolment of devices was carried out manually, this had been a nightmare for both the IT admins and end users who sometimes had to wait for weeks to get their devices to work according to the requirements of the company.
Staging the devices manually with the required settings, configurations and applications was a tedious process that not only took up a lot of time but also demanded high labor costs and resources. Previously device imaging was done through a time-consuming process known as 'monolithic imaging' where the device had to be completely erased and the OS and configurations was manually installed on the device. Zero touch deployment eliminates the need to image a device, instead the required OS, settings and configurations are provisioned on to it.