Drive Enterprise Mobility Costs Out of Your Business

The latest release of the iPass Open Mobile Platform provides a unique set of tools to engineer costs out of your business and to change the economics of Enterprise Mobility. To bring mobility costs firmly under control, you need the ability to manage users, devices and services throughout their separate lifecycles, from procurement and provisioning through configuration and testing, deployment and service management.

Specifically, you need:

• Cost visibility
• Policy enforcement
• Centralized control of the mobile user experience

The iPass Open Mobile Platform enhancements drive right at the heart of the twin issues of productivity and cost.

1. iPass has innovated by evolving its leading edge mobility client into an interactive tool for users to access corporate applications and information.
2. iPass has implemented 3G visibility and control features to allow companies to capture and act on their growing 3G bills.
3. iPass has added an innovative Open Access service that makes using free Wi-Fi as easy as expensive commercial Wi-Fi and 3G.

Currently those responsible for these costs must comb through bills of numerous carriers plus expense reports of individuals to access what’s being used, how much, and whether it is right-sized for the need.

This leads to problems such as surprise 3G roaming bills, idle or under-used subscriptions, and a substantial percentage of 3G usage being purchased un-negotiated at full retail prices. Open Mobile Platform collects Mobile usage data across all 3G connections (over 140 3G adapters supported) and allows you to use the data through reports or data downloads to assess the amount and nature of your 3G usage. This data includes the network used and whether it was a roaming session.

» Mobile Insight

Beyond reporting, the Open Mobile Platform adds specific policy blocks for 3G roaming, recognizing that a user’s 3G card is associating to a roaming network and sending an alert to users to let them know when roaming or alowing IT to restrict roaming networks from even appearing as a connection option via Open Mobile client.

» Mobile Control

iPass also offers as a complement to overseas travelers the world’s largest commercial hotspot network, now with fully validated free wi-fi networks, through its new Open Access offering. iPass also offers frequent travelers the world’s largest commercial hotspot network and allows organizations to take advantage of free networks in a seamless fashion, all as part of the iPass Mobile Network.

Now you can take command of enterprise mobility costs with the detailed visibility and analytical capabilities needed to understand your mobile employee’s connectivity consumption and costs. And through multi-lever controls and the ability to implement and automatically enforce business policy across carriers, geographies and organizational boundaries, iPass Open Mobile Platform gives you the knowledge and the tools to change the economics of your global mobility environment.

» White Paper: What You Need to Know About the Costs of Mobility