Business Solutions for Information Technology in Rochester, NY | Info Advantage

This new era of corporate computing called BYOD: Bring Your Own Device is both exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. With the explosion of mobile devices like smartphones, laptops, tablets and iPads, business owners and managers want to make it easy for employees to use this technology yet this also opens considerable risks the corporate infrastructure. Thus begs the question: How do you manage the mobile devices in your workplace?

Info Advantage has assisted many clients with this exact question.  Here are a couple of leading solutions to help you manage your mobile infrastructure:

Good for Enterprise™

Multi-Platform Support: iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows Phone for Enterprise

An enterprise mobility strategy often involves multiple target devices over various networks and carriers. Good for Enterprise supports a wide range of industry-leading devices across platforms such as Apple iOS (including iPhone and iPad), Android, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile, Symbian, PalmOS and devices from HTC, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, and Samsung. As a part of the strategy of embracing employee-owned devices, supporting so many platforms and carriers helps reduce mobility costs.

• Mobile Device Security -Good's solution secures enterprise data and protects against potential enterprise data loss. With an advanced end-to-end 192-bit AES encryption and FIPS certification, Good promises secure access to enterprise data and applications, both over the air and on smart devices.
• Remote Mobile Device Management - Easy-to-use, comprehensive, Web-based device management tools include over the air controls, granular and consistent policy enforcement, and end-to-end visibility for troubleshooting and support.
• Mobile Collaboration -Secure access to email, contacts, calendar, Intranet, PIM, Web-based apps and more.

Contact your Info Advantage representative if you would like more information on how to manage your mobile infrastructure. (585) 254-8710

BlackBerry Mobile Fusion

Easily manage and secure mobile device deployments

BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion helps make managing mobile devices faster, easier and more organized than ever before. From a single, web-based interface, provision, audit and protect mobile devices, including BlackBerry smartphones1, BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets and devices that use iOS®2 and Android™3 operating systems. This unified approach helps provide secure mobile access to work email and data in a cost-effective way.

• Manage devices, users, groups and policies from a single place
• Manage required and optional work applications
• Supports BlackBerry Balance technology for BlackBerry devices
• Manage and secure BlackBerry PlayBook tablets
• Support for devices that use iOS and Android operating systems
• Security designed for everyone

Contact your Info Advantage representative if you would like more information on how to manage your mobile infrastructure. (585) 254-8710

Mobility For Business

A modern mobile IT strategy is no longer an option, it is an absolute business necessity. Today's most productive employees are not tied to a desk, an office, or a location. They are mobile. And your company's IT strategy has to be ready to support them with easy, reliable, 24/7 access to the business information they need, from anywhere in the world, across a broad range of communication devices.

Information Access

Ease of data access across the enterprise is critical. Having this access published securely to employees, vendors, partners, distributors, and business associates ensures that key business information is readily available as day-to-day operations require such as:

• Email
• Calendars
• Contacts
• Business Applications (CRM, ERP, MRP, etc.)
• Business Documents (brochures, presentations, custom documents, reports, etc.)
  

Infrastructure

We are witness to the latest trend known as IT “consumerisation”. Specifically, this means that staff play a role in influencing what devices and services are used in companies by bringing in their own IT experience. For instance, employees who have a smartphone for private use want to be able to receive their work-related mails using the same mobile device. More and more employees are therefore approaching the IT departments about the possibility of integrating their own devices. Companies, for their part, are seizing the opportunity presented, often to save on hardware costs as well as looking for ways to make employees more productive and efficient. Therefore, today's modern business is seeing a tremendous influx of mobile devices in the workplace such as:

• iPads
• Ultrabooks
• Tablets
• Smartphones
• Laptops and notebooks

Management and Security

Integrating mobile devices and applications to the enterprise is a double-edged sword. One one side there is the benefit of increased productivity and accessibility. One the other side is the potential nightmare of managing the ever-growing tide of mobile devices and also increased security risk. To manage and protect your workplace, you need to consider several items:

• Mobility management: your organization must deploy mobility management solutions.  There is currently a wide array of options, both on premise and cloud based to help your organization manage and secure your employees’ mobile devices. 
• Endpoint protection:  your orgnaization must deploy an endpoint protection solution that covers the mobile devices in your infrastructure
• Mobility policy: your organization needs to have a mobility policy in place that outlines all the things your employees can and cannot do with their work connected mobile devices, regardless of who owns the device and regardless of where or when they are using the mobile device.