In 2026, IT teams are under ever-increasing pressure to secure device fleets, maintain organizational compliance, and deliver user experiences with little-to-no friction while managing shrinking budgets and rising expectations from the C-suite. The Microsoft Intune Suite is designed to help organizations strengthen endpoint management services and meet that challenge head-on. Beyond Intune’s well-known device and app management capabilities, the advanced analytics within the Intune Suite provide deeper, more actionable insight into your environment.
If you are looking to modernize your endpoint operations, these analytics capabilities aren’t just a “nice to have.” They’re becoming more and more essential.
It’s also worth noting that Microsoft has announced that in 2026, Advanced Analytics and the rest of the Intune Suite will come as part of M365 E5 licenses. You can search the Windows Management Experts blog for more posts about the Intune Suite.
Advanced Analytics in Today’s Endpoint Landscape
Remote work has permanently changed how devices are deployed, used, and secured. Traditional monitoring tools can struggle to keep up with remote endpoints, inconsistent and unreliable network conditions, and the growing mix of corporate and BYOD devices. IT teams need visibility that goes beyond a connection to your corporate network and simple compliance checks.
The Intune Suite’s analytics capabilities can provide that visibility. You can surface trends, detect anomalies, and identify risks before they become incidents. Instead of reacting to issues, you can proactively fix devices, strengthen your security posture, and reduce support overhead.
Advanced Analytics provides a complete view of device performance, user experience, and operational health across all your devices. The key capabilities of this functionality include:
- Startup performance insights: identify slow boot times and pinpoint the apps, drivers, or policies that are causing delays.
- Remove work readiness: evaluate device readiness for remove work.
- Proactive remediation: automate fixes for common issues using PowerShell-based scripts.
- Device reliability metrics: highlight crash trends, resource bottlenecks, and hardware‑related issues.
This all leads to fewer helpdesk tickets, faster and more efficient troubleshooting, and can provide a clear understanding of where to focus future efforts for endpoint management.
Advanced App Management Insights
Applications are one of the biggest sources of user frustration and complexity. Intune Advanced Analytics can track installation success rates of applications, version drift, and performance issues with applications.
You can quickly identify:
- Apps that frequently fail to install
- Apps that routinely fail to update
- Devices running out-of-date versions
- Usage patterns that could be used to help with reducing licensing costs
These insights can help you maintain secure, consistent, and optimized applications without relying on manual audits or guesswork.
Security Posture Analytics and Anomaly Detection
Security is the center of the Intune Suite’s analytics. It can correlate device signals, configuration baselines, and behavioral patterns to help you detect and mitigate risks earlier. The key capabilities of this functionality include:
- Configuration drift detection: identify devices that have deviated from security baselines.
- Anomaly detection: flag unusual device behavior, such as privilege changes or suspicious configuration modifications.
- Vulnerability insights: identify devices exposed to known risks and vulnerabilities.
This functionality can also be integrated with Microsoft Defender for streamlined threat intelligence and automated response workflows. This level of visibility can help you close security gaps before attackers can exploit them.
Operational Baselines and Device Performance Scoring
Advanced Analytics also includes operational baselines that can help you measure device health against industry standards and internal benchmarks. Device performance scoring provides a quantifiable way to evaluate endpoint readiness and user experience.
These metrics can help you prioritize hardware refresh cycles by identifying device models that are not performing at your benchmarks. For organizations managing thousands of endpoints, these insights can be invaluable.
Final Thoughts
The Microsoft Intune Suite’s advanced analytics functionality can give you the visibility needed to stay ahead of today’s endpoint challenges. If you’re ready to take full advantage of the Intune platform and use its data to transform your endpoint management approach, now is the perfect time to explore what these capabilities can do.
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