View Smartphone Content, Activity, Apps, and Control Security with MobileIron

By Contributor Wireless and Mobile News on August 7, 2009 1:49 PM

MobileIron announced the launch of the MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform, the first solution to combine data-driven smartphone management with real-time wireless cost control.

Enterprise data is moving to the smartphone. Wireless costs are skyrocketing. Smartphones have become a risky blind spot for many organizations. MobileIron's patent-pending data virtualization technology is a fundamentally new approach to enterprise mobility. The MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform creates a central view of smartphone content, activity, and applications in the data center to give IT and end-users insight into usage, and control over security and cost.

Key features of the MobileIron Virtual Smartphone Platform include:

Security, device, and application management.
Enterprise data boundary for employee-owned smartphones.
Real-time usage alerts for roaming and cost control.
Operator service quality monitoring.
MyPhone@Work end-user services.

With these services, organizations can:

Get smartphone operations under control quickly and securely.
Cut enterprise wireless bills by up to 20 percent.
Drive user adoption and productivity through phone choice and services like the enterprise app store.

The MobileIron solution provides a six to twelve month payback and is sold as an easy-to-install appliance that plugs into a company's IT infrastructure. The platform is up and running in less than an hour

MobileIron supports BlackBerry, iPhone, and Windows Mobile smartphones today, with Symbian and Android coming soon.