iPass Open Mobile Platform

Harness the Power of Your Mobile Workforce

Worker’s seamlessly connecting anywhere are more productive everywhere. It’s difficult for IT to control mobile connectivity both across the workforce and down to the individual. Our cloud-based Open Mobile Platform and enterprise mobility services do just that.

The mobile employee has come to expect the ability to work however, wherever, and whenever they want, using devices and mobile network connectivity options that are being driven by the consumer market. Keeping workers productive while mobile requires multiple types of connectivity. In a single day, the same mobile user may connect at home, in the office, in a taxi, at a client site-and even from an airplane or hotel-using a variety of devices and access technologies.

As a result your IT organization faces challenges: everything from fast deployment to service monitoring, secure connection management, and support issues, and of course, hidden and unmanaged expenses. On average, companies today are spending over $120 per month for each mobile employee, and mobility costs are going up – driven by evolving data plans, and bandwidth starved mobile devices and applications that mobile employees must have.

The iPass Open Mobile Platform lets you implement and manage your enterprise mobility solution, enabling a productive, always-on workforce. You gain visibility into enterprise, group, individual, and device mobility and can easily enforce expense and security policies — helping you reduce your total cost of mobility.

The iPass Open Mobile Platform can be overlaid on the iPass network or your own connectivity fabric, allowing you to easily create and manage your own tailored mobility solution across any network, providing unmatched broadband access to over 675,000 mobile connectivity venues worldwide.

iPass Open Mobile Platform is an innovative suite of cloud-based enterprise mobility services. This open architecture provides unrivalled choice in access, devices, and services – helping companies keep up with the pace of innovation while driving down TCO. The platform:

• Integrates with existing enterprise security, directory, and business systems.
• Integrates with any network-including 3G and 4G mobile broadband networks. Simply configure your iPass services for your own 3G and 4G cards, regardless of which network they are tied to.
• Embraces new access methods, devices, and applications.
• Helps organizations control the cost of mobility with cost control policies that ensures access is granted with the underlying cost of access in mind
• Ensures that organizations have access to usage data across users and devices

iPass Open Mobile Platform is comprised of four primary components:

1. iPass Enterprise Mobility Services consist of a portfolio of cloud-based offerings that power simple and smart mobility solutions for the global enterprise, helping businesses deliver tailored solutions to their workforce while lowering their total cost of mobility.
   • iPass Mobile Connect: Mobility independent of devices or networks
   • iPass Mobile Control: Powerful, flexible policy enforcement
   • iPass Mobile Insight: Real-time analysis and reporting of all mobile device usage
   • iPass Mobile Network: Unmatched global access
2. iPass Open Mobile Client is always-on lightweight software that runs on mobile devices (laptops, tablets and smartphones). It orchestrates network and corporate access based on the policies set on the iPass Open Mobile Portal.
3. iPass Open Mobile Portal is a Web-based management interface that serves as the vehicle for IT to manage iPass Enterprise Mobility Services. It gives you visibility, control and a high degree of automation in managing mobility across the organization.
4. iPass Services Fabric is the highly available, secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure that delivers iPass service functions, from network authentication to software distribution, configuration updates and service maintenance.Note: this should be a separate box or section: The iPass quarterly mobile workforce surveys and the 2011 Mobile Enterprise Report continue to shed light on mobility trends. Smartphones – and now tablets – are playing an increasingly important role in the lives of mobile workers, yet the majority of mobile workers see themselves moving to fewer mobile devices in the next five years. We also find that mobile workers view carrier networks as slow and are increasingly using Wi-Fi to meet their connectivity needs.

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