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AirWatch Enhances Multiplatform Laptop Management Solution and Drives Enterprise and Educational Adoption of Bring Your Own Laptop for Mobile Fleets
July 2013 by Marc Jacob
AirWatch®, the global leader and innovator in mobile security and largest Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) provider, announces significant enhancements to its laptop management solution that provides additional functionality and platform support for organizations that need to manage all of their mobile devices, including laptops, from a central console.
A Platform Approach for Enterprise Mobility
With new mobile operating system iterations introduced nearly every 15 days, organizations that want to support a variety of Bring Your Own Device scenarios or ensure security for specific platforms need a central console to simplify enrollment, configuration and management of devices. The AirWatch EMM platform provides more than 7,000 organizations with the flexibility to securely manage all its mobile devices, deliver work resources to each of those devices and dynamically reconfigure policies and information based on a user’s role and responsibility. Organizations use AirWatch to deploy managed laptops across multiple operating system variations, like Mac OS® X, using the same central console they already use to manage tablets and smartphones. AirWatch has created the enterprise mobility framework that allows IT departments to manage laptops similar to smartphones and tablets.
The Rise of Bring Your Own Laptop
Organizations support Bring Your Own Device programs to give end users access to corporate resources on personal devices, to seek cost reduction opportunities and to provide the preferred user experience. Although tablets are replacing desktops as the form factor for work, some end users still want access to information on personal laptops or prefer using their own laptop – which often has greater computing power or a desired OS like Mac OS® X - over a corporate-issued device. By offering employees device choice, organizations see greater productivity and efficiency without needing to invest in the hardware technology itself. The AirWatch EMM platform allows organizations to manage corporate issued and personally owned laptops, tablets and smartphones from a central console.
Key AirWatch Updates and Solution Availability
AirWatch offers best-in-class Mac OS® X management and fully supports Windows® 8, Windows® RT and Windows® 32-archetitected laptops and desktops. With the latest version of its EMM solution, AirWatch is introducing several updates including, but not limited to:
? Apple® Mac OS® X
o Fortified security by enforcing FileVault 2 disk encryption
o Automatic configuration of enterprise email accounts for Microsoft® Outlook®
o Integration with AirWatch Cloud Messenger (AWCM), including administrator push notification delivery
o Parental controls such as time limits and curfew
? Microsoft® Windows®
o Fully featured product and profile provisioning, compliance, MDM commands and scalable enrollment
o Enterprise wipe and GPS location capabilities
o Encrypt all data in-transit and at-rest for Secure Content Locker™
o Secure mobile access to documents in Secure Content Locker™
