SAP AG has
unveiled the latest version of SAP Afaria, the solution of mobile device
management. Improvements in this solution of corporate mobility management (EMM
for its acronym in English) include greater integration capability and
distribution business to manage and effectively ensure the large number of
devices that users themselves take the place of job. To address the growing use
of corporate mobile apps, SAP will include new designs of self and apps to
provide a user experience similar to the portals of consumer apps and therefore
familiar to the user.
According to
Forrester Research, Inc., more than two thirds of information professionals
from North America and Europe choose personally using smartphones and tablets
to work. To respond to this trend, companies are developing programs bring your
own device (BYOD) requiring a solution EMM mature and highly scalable and
available both on-premise mode and in the cloud, to manage and secure way
effective all mobile devices and apps entering the workplace.
It is expected
that the latest version of SAP Afaria provides key benefits for companies:
Business
Integration
Better
integration with directories, providing connection to multiple and disparate
directories for authentication and user assignments to trust policies and
simplifies the process of onboarding device users in distributed system
environments. It is envisaged that the distribution of values of data stored
in directory are used for setting policies to devices incorporating coordinate
BYOD.
Improved email
access control and repair of devices designed to provide greater scalability
and security for large organizations that have multiple components for access
control in a distributed environment.
Certificate
Management with PKIs extended to provide secure and granular control over the
management and delivery of certificates.
Application
Management
Improvements
to the Apps portal designed to simplify the user experience by providing an
environment that is familiar and can be developed with the company brand, while
increasing the efficiency of the mobile worker to guide and instruct users on
how to leverage mobile applications more beneficial for their role in the
organization
New API for
SAP Afaria and benefits of policies aimed at apps to make the setting
"without intervention", so that administrators can create and deploy
secure applications without requiring users to enter configuration information,
such as username, domain or server address. This will help to significantly
reduce calls to the help desk and create a more pleasant experience.
IT Services for
enterprise devices and BYOD
Updates the
self-service portal to simplify the interface used by mobile users to integrate
and manage their devices and enable organizations to build their own custom
interfaces.
Extensive
support for SAFE Samsung Android devices, which are planned for additional
security capabilities and email
Improvements
for iOS to provide improvements in the jailbreak detection, and support in the
regions with higher prevalence of jailbroken devices, configuration and
enhanced iOS application management capabilities.
The SAP Rapid
Deployment solution Afaria is available to accelerate software deployment with
pre-configured and predefined services.
