Connect, protect, empower: mobile business technology
Getting the full value of mobile technology for your business means more than letting employees get email on their phones. There’s so much you can do with mobile devices, from closing deals faster to collaborating on documents—especially with the power of cloud-based services and applications. But if these devices can’t be effectively managed, the trade-off isn’t worth it. The risks of data loss and business disruption are too great.
The key is to think of improved productivity and effective mobility management as a single goal: managed mobile productivity. To make that happen, there are three key areas in mobile business technology you need to take care of. You need to protect your company information, regardless of where it goes. You need to enable employees to connect to the apps and services they need to get work done. And you need to empower them to make the most of every opportunity by implementing governance and security that don’t get in their way.
Until recently, to achieve those objectives, you had to install and run specialized software inside your organization, with all the hardware management and IT complexity that entails. Additionally, on-premises mobile device management solutions were not designed to handle the explosion of cloud services that businesses face.
Today, you can skip all that and put mobile tech for businesses and mobility management in the cloud—where it’s not only easier to manage, but where it can serve as a connection point for on-premises and cloud apps, data, and services. You can provide everything your users expect, while keeping the protection and control you need.
To help you achieve managed mobile productivity, Microsoft has created the Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS). Its three core components—Azure Active Directory Premium, Microsoft Intune, and Azure Rights Management Service—were built from the start as cloud services that work together, creating a uniquely integrated solution. Using EMS, you can empower your people to be productive on the devices they love while protecting your company’s assets.
- Connect: By extending your directory service to the cloud, you can enable secure single sign-on to internal and cloud applications, saving employees time and enabling them to focus on productivity instead of technology.
- Protect: Rights management is a powerful technology for controlling how data gets used. It can prevent documents from being opened or modified by the wrong people, even after that information is outside your firewall. With Azure Rights Management, it becomes much easier to share documents without the complexity of full federation between two organizations.
- Empower: With mobile device management as cloud service, it becomes much easier to enable employees to use the devices they’re most comfortable with. You don’t have to worry about patching your mobility solution every time Android has an update—it’s all taken care of on the back end by Microsoft. And, you can securely and remotely delete company information from devices while leaving personal information intact.
By moving what were on-premises services to the cloud, EMS helps your organization be more productive, better managed, and more secure in this mobile- first, cloud-first world. And by integrating these services with each other and with their on-premises cousins, it provides a complete mobile business solution so you get everything you need without the complexity. By deploying EMS, you can make life better for your employees, your business partners, and your customers.
