Accessing Apps Seamlessly

Secure and accelerated access to your company’s applications, anywhere, anytime, using your personal favorite devices. A dream come true...

You have just purchased the latest smoking hot smartphone and absolutely love it. You can do everything on it—from surfing the net to tweeting and writing on your Facebook wall. But when it comes to accessing your workplace applications, you have to fish out that old brick of a phone that was launched ages ago, but had just been formally approved by your company for use to connect to the company’s applications. Even worse, you have to lug around your 1.5 kg laptop to get connected to your company’s applications!

Proliferation of the Mobile Workers

At the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it was revealed that—as at the end of 2010—there were 600 mn mobile broadband subscribers across the globe. This year, there will be 1 bn mobile workers worldwide. By 2016, researchers expect 5 bn mobile broadband subscribers worldwide—contrast that with the current world population of 7 bn and you will see just how explosive the proliferation of the mobile workers will be.

The employees, partners, and customers of companies are increasingly mobile and geographically distributed.

Unfortunately, although new gadgets are constantly being introduced in the consumer world, the adoption of new devices into enterprise IT tends to lag behind because of security concerns and the need for careful and time-consuming audit processes before a new device is allowed to tap into the company’s IT systems/infrastructure.

IT departments are regularly swamped with requests from employees, partners, and customers to use their device of choice to access the company’s mobile applications. Complaints about how slowly applications run, when accessed remotely over the Wide Area Network (WAN), are also common.

Mobile User Access Solution

As the mobile user device market explodes and data needs increase exponentially, managing application traffic to and from users through the managed access network will become a critical requirement for managed service providers (MSPS). Applications are driving up bandwidth usage while driving down average revenue per user (ARPU), requiring MSPS to take a more active role in managing the users that access the application services as well as delivering those services to the users.

Secure and fast access to a company’s application will allow employees to better collaborate with each other regardless of geographical location. For example, the sales force in the field can check on supply and stock anytime, anywhere—leading to greater efficiency and sales results. The mobile user access solution can provide seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications for mobile and remote users—anywhere, anytime.

Using the Device of Choice

Computing power is now available across a wide range of devices. Consumer devices such as smartphones and slates are now becoming powerful enough to be able to run the types of applications that