Afaria Device Management and Security

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Mobile Device Management and Security

Afaria provides comprehensive management and security capabilities to ensure that mobile data and devices are up-to-date, reliable and secure.

With Afaria, IT has the level of control and visibility required to proactively manage and secure multiple device types, applications, data and communications critical to frontline success, regardless of the bandwidth available. By putting control in the hands of IT, frontline workers are freed from the burden of management tasks, which increases user adoption and productivity. Afaria uniquely combines mobile device management and mobile security from a single console, providing the best protection against security threats and compliance issues.

Afaria is an enterprise-grade, highly scalable solution with a central Web-based console that provides IT with control over a host of key functions from a standard browser. With Afaria's ability to tie into enterprise directories, these functions provide everything necessary to extend an organization's management and security capabilities to any device in any location.

Afaria Components:

Afaria Antivirus & Firewall Manager
With advances in wireless technology, smart phones and PDA’s have evolved into many organizations mobile computing device of choice. These devices are now able to operate on multiple networks (i.e. cellular carrier network to a WiFi hotspot) and communicate with other devices via peer to peer communication, such as Bluetooth. The proliferation and convergence of technologies, such as business process automation, mobile application deployment, mobile commerce, mobile banking, and push email have generated widespread adoption of smart phones and PDA’s across virtually all industries. As a result, threats to mobile operating systems are on the increase.

Afaria Backup Manager
Backup Manager provides a centralized, automated process for archiving frontline workers' critical business data and documents, ensuring their availability to both the frontline employee and the company, even if the device is lost, damaged or stolen.

Afaria Configuration Manager
Configuration Manager provides key mobile device management capabilities, such as ensuring devices and systems are configured properly and that required connection settings are enforced, giving frontline workers hassle-free use of their handhelds.

Afaria Document Manager
Document Manager is the easy solution to ensure that frontline workers always have the content they need, as soon as it is available. It provides organized initial delivery and ongoing updates for content and data files to frontline devices, without the involvement of users.

Afaria Inventory Manager
As time passes, it’s hard to keep up with all of your frontline devices. With Inventory Manager, you get all the information you need to make this task manageable by scanning and capturing detailed hardware and software asset information from frontline systems and devices like laptops, point-of-sale systems and handhelds.

Afaria License Manager
License Manager gives you full visibility into application use in the field. It tracks software installation and usage and allows you to compare usage against software purchases and license agreements, based on installed count, expiration date or both.

Afaria OneTouch
OneTouch simplifies the process of connecting to a network, logging in, and completing critical application-related tasks like security checks, synchronizations and backup.

Afaria Patch Manager
Patch Manager provides an increased level of intelligence and automation for managing Microsoft updates to your Windows-based desktops, laptops and servers-wherever they are in your enterprise.

Afaria Remote Control
Remote Control provides administrators full, secure, remote takeover capabilities that can be used for help desk support, server support and for remote access to machines used by workers at the front lines of business.

Afaria Security Manager
Security Manager offers unique handheld and laptop security functionality from a single console. It enables IT to manage security requirements centrally, such as enforcing power-on password, full disk encryption, updating signature files and antivirus engines, and managing the configuration of the device.

Afaria Session Manager
Session Manager uses this session-oriented approach, allowing you automate business processes and increase communication efficiency for intermittently connected devices and systems.

Afaria Software Manager
Software Manager makes it easy for your administrator to centrally distribute, install, maintain and support frontline applications, no matter where users are located or what kind of device they're using.

Afaria SMS Integration Suite
Recognizing the critical role that mobile and other distributed technologies play in business today, iAnywhere has worked with Microsoft to make the combination of Afaria and Systems Management Server 2003 the most comprehensive solution on the market for managing frontline solutions.