If you manage Apple devices at scale, you know the pain of clicking through Apple Business Manager's web interface for hours. ASBMUtil is a new native macOS app that aims to fix that.
The app takes advantage of the official API that Apple released last year for Apple Business and Apple School Manager. That API opened the door for developers to build automation tools and native apps that work faster than the browser based portals.
For IT teams deploying thousands of Macs, iPads, or iPhones, this matters because the web interface gets incredibly tedious at scale. A native app can handle bulk operations, automate repetitive tasks, and generally make device management less of a time sink.
This is part of a broader trend of Apple opening up its enterprise tools to third party developers. The API release last year was a signal that Apple wants to enable better tooling around device deployment, and ASBMUtil is one of the first apps to take advantage of that opportunity.
If you're in IT or manage Apple hardware for your team, tools like this could save you hours of clicking through web forms. The shift from web only interfaces to native apps with API access is exactly what enterprise Apple users have been asking for.
