MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform
Introducing MobileIron
Smartphones are quickly becoming the primary personal communications and computing platform for business. However, they introduce cost, risk, and usability challenges that traditional mobile device management strategies cannot address.
MobileIron's vision is to bring simplicity to the chaos of smartphones in the enterprise, simplifing the problem for IT, finance, and end-users by moving smartphone data into the enterprise cloud via an easy to deploy appliance. The MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform is a patent pending technology that combines data-driven central management of smartphones with deep
visibility into real-time usage and cost drivers. This unique pairing of functionality gives the platfrom a rapidly demonstratable return on investment.
The challenges
- High cost - The mobile expense line is exploding. Both the business and end users demand smartphones. Mobile costs are spiraling upward, and getting them under control is a difficult policing effort at best.
- Poor visibility - Any data on a laptop can also live on a smartphone. Companies lack a clear view of their data and application exposure. Massive aggregate storage on such easily lost units is a security timebomb.
- Too many platforms - There is no industry standard for smartphone operating systems. BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Symbian, and Android are all here to stay. Single platform strategies will not allow companies to keep pace with innovation and end-user demand.
- Consumer-driven - Consumers, not IT, drive the smartphone market. As employee-owned phones start accessing company data, security and privacy become a difficult balancing act.
Benefits & Objectives of MobileIron's Platform
- Control Chaos & Take Back Control - Get visibility and control over mobile content, applications, and devices through IT Control Center. The IT department is empowered to manage the lifecycle of the phone and its data, from registration to retirement in a fashion analogous with Laptops and Desktops.
- Reduce Cost - Save up to 20% off monthly carrier bills through Mobile Activity Intelligence. Be able to: quickly respond to usage spikes or exceptions before they result in large bills (whether the phone is owned/expensed by the employee or the company); notify users and managers when roaming thresholds are hit; understand carrier network quality, identify geographic areas and end users suffering from poor reception or dropped calls or 3G availability to gauge suitability of your encumberent mobile provider; identify and stop excessive mobile call volumes taking place within company premises (N.B. for some company's up to 40% of calls take place within 10 feet of a deskphone).
- Expand User Experience - Users drive adoption and productivity through MyPhone@Work services like enterprise app stores.
The solution is deployable on iPhone, RIM Blackberry (pairing with Blackberry BES to further enhance control features plus add Mobile Activity Intelligence), MS Windows Mobile and is soon extending to Symbian (Nokia etc) and Google Android. Foehn identify Mobile Iron's iPhone support as a game changer for corporates by making iPhone a secure enterprise ready option. See MobileIron iPhone support for further details. iPhone support highlights:
- Track full inventory
- Block unauthorized and/or modified iPhones
- Encrypted, over-the-air configuration using SCEP (Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol) for both iPhone OS 3.0 and 3.1
- Dynamic configuration and centralized policy generation
- One-click activation and remediation
- Password policy enforcement
- Encryption policy enforcement
- Lockdown (camera, app install, Safari, YouTube, iTunes, explicit content)
- Remote wipe
- Create a recommended application catalog for end-users
Foehn - The Experts in MobileIron
Along with an in-depth understanding of MobileIron's products Foehn brings to the table its extensive understanding of the complexities of mobile network communications through a 10 year history of integrating into the networks of mobile network operators and the mobile ecosystem as a whole.
Furthermore, Foehn can also provide a layered approach to solving the mobile expense and security problem, through its commercial contracts benchmark, audit and procurement services, and its ISO 27001 aligned security practice. Please contact us for further information.
