Apple configurator to disable iMessages

Hi,
We are a financial firm and we are planning to purchase around 500 iPhones for corporate users (employees). But we are wondering how we will disable the iMessages on iPhone devices.
We contacted MobileIron and Airwatch and they suggested that the devices have to be tethered to turn on the supervisoin mode in order to disable the iMessages.
My question is, can we use Apple Configurator to disable iMessages without tethering the devices. Or is there any other MDM which provides this feature?
Thanks
Sali

Apple Configurator has to connect physically to the device you wish to supervise or configure
you can also use it to enrol your devices in your MDM which greatly speeds up the enrolment process
You should also have a look at DEP if you're in a country that supports DEP, along with VPP
Be careful with find my iPhone, if you let users setup find my iPhone you could find yourself locked out of the devices and unable to do anything with the devices due to iOS 7's activation lock

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