Peripheral

What Peripheral does

Peripheral (doing business as Peripheral Digital) is a privately held, Carmel, Indiana-based managed services provider founded circa 2006. The firm specializes in endpoint and mobility management for Fortune 100 enterprise clients, delivering four integrated service lines: Consulting & Strategy, Architecture Design & Deployment, Professional Services, and Managed Services. Engagements span the full lifecycle from strategy formulation through ongoing operational support, with the company positioning itself as a domain specialist rather than a software vendor.

The company's underlying technical competency centers on Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (AD/AAD), Identity and Access Management (IAM), networking, security, and virtualization integration. Peripheral deploys and manages third-party endpoint and identity stacks on behalf of clients rather than selling a proprietary platform. Its bundled Managed Services offering is explicitly marketed as covering consulting, strategy, architecture, project delivery, and ongoing operations with no additional costs, implying a fixed-fee or retainer-based commercial structure for the recurring line, while Professional Services are billed per project engagement.

Peripheral goes to market exclusively through direct enterprise field sales, engaging CIOs, VPs, and Directors of IT at F100 organizations. Inbound inquiries are driven through its Squarespace-hosted website (peripheraldigital.com) with a stated one-business-day response time. With only 7 employees on record and a single anonymous F100 CIO testimonial, the firm operates as a small, senior-heavy consultancy with no disclosed channel partner network, no self-serve distribution, and no public pricing. There are no patents, trademarks, certifications, or third-party technology partnerships disclosed in the source data, and no external funding or M&A activity is recorded.

Name

Peripheral

Legal name

Peripheral

Website

https://peripheraldigital.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Peripheral is a Carmel, Indiana-based boutique managed services firm specializing in endpoint and mobility management for Fortune 100 enterprises, offering consulting, architecture design, professional services, and bundled managed services across UEM, IAM, and related enterprise infrastructure.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

IT Managed Services

SIC

Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744)

akta.pro primary industry

Workplace Service Desk & Onsite Support (Deskside/Field Services, VIP Support) (BPAEAIAJ)

Keywords

• Endpoint management services
• Mobility managed services
• IT infrastructure consulting
• Enterprise endpoint security
• Managed IT services

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Managed Endpoint Services: Comprehensive managed services encompassing consulting, strategy, architecture, project delivery, and ongoing operational support. Services are offered as a complete bundled package with no additional costs, implying a subscription or fixed-fee recurring model.
2. Professional Services: Project-based professional services for single deliverables to enhance current endpoint infrastructure, including platform assessments and advanced deployments. Billed per engagement or project.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Peripheral is a privately held managed services provider headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, specializing in endpoint and mobility managed services for Fortune 100 enterprises. The firm delivers consulting and strategy, architecture design and deployment, professional services, and ongoing managed services centered on unified endpoint management (UEM), Active Directory, Azure AD, and identity and access management (IAM) workloads. With approximately seven employees and over 15 years of operational experience, the company operates as a focused boutique practice serving large enterprise IT organizations.

Product overview

Peripheral is a services company offering endpoint and mobility managed services rather than a product platform. The company provides four integrated service offerings: Consulting & Strategy (for modern management and digital transformation planning), Architecture Design & Deployment (for enterprise infrastructure design and implementation), Professional Services (for single-project delivery and platform assessments), and Managed Services (comprehensive ongoing endpoint management). These services are delivered together as a complete managed services offering, with no separate product modules or software platforms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Consulting & Strategy Advisory engagement for enterprise IT leaders (CIOs, VPs, and Directors of IT at Fortune 100 firms) on endpoint and mobility strategy, including vendor selection, roadmap definition, and program governance for endpoint and identity environments.
• Architecture Design & Deployment Design and build-out of enterprise endpoint and mobility architectures, including unified endpoint management (UEM), Active Directory, Azure AD, and identity and access management (IAM) environments, delivered for Fortune 100 enterprise IT organizations.
• Professional Services Project-based expert resourcing and technical delivery for endpoint, mobility, Active Directory, Azure AD, and IAM initiatives within large enterprise IT estates.
• Managed Services Recurring outsourced operations and administration of enterprise endpoint and mobility environments (UEM, Active Directory, Azure AD, IAM) for Fortune 100 organizations on an ongoing managed basis.

Quantifiable outcome

• Enabled digital transformation goals for enterprise F100 clients through UEM platform strategy deployment and ongoing management.

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Insight Enterprises: Insight is a large IT solutions and services provider offering endpoint management, modern workspace, and managed services to enterprise clients across multiple geographies.
• DXC Technology: DXC is a global IT services incumbent delivering endpoint management, workspace, and managed services to large enterprises. It competes for the same F100 endpoint modernization RFPs at significantly greater scale.
• Unisys: Unisys delivers digital workplace, endpoint, and managed services to Fortune 100 enterprises. Its broader portfolio overlaps with Peripheral's bundled consulting-to-managed-services model.
• Wipro: Wipro is a global IT services firm with a strong endpoint and workplace transformation practice serving F100 enterprises. It competes broadly for the same digital transformation budgets.

Direct peers

• Avanade: Avanade is a Microsoft-focused IT services and consulting firm that delivers endpoint, identity, and workplace modernization projects to F100 enterprises. It directly competes for the same CIO/VP-IT buyer and EUC/UEM project scope.
• Slalom: Slalom is a mid-market IT and digital transformation consultancy with a strong endpoint and workplace modernization practice. It targets similar enterprise IT leaders with consulting-led engagements of comparable scope.

Emerging players

• Hexnode: Hexnode is a UEM platform vendor serving enterprise endpoint management needs. It represents the product-side overlap with Peripheral's deployment and managed services offerings.
• Tanium: Tanium provides endpoint management and security solutions to large enterprises. It overlaps with Peripheral's endpoint management focus and targets F100 IT leadership with converged endpoint platforms.
• Ivanti: Ivanti is a UEM and endpoint security platform vendor. While primarily a software company, it overlaps with Peripheral through its endpoint management consulting and managed service offerings, targeting similar enterprise IT buyers.
• Jamf: Jamf specializes in Apple device and endpoint management at enterprise scale. It competes in the same UEM/EUC category Peripheral serves, with similar Fortune 100 enterprise customers and channel-led delivery.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/peripheraldigital

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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