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Fiberlink Highlights SaaS for Wireless Management Offering
From that international high-tech mecca of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, comes Fiberlink’s latest software-as-a-service (SaaS (News 
- Alert)) offering for secure wireless management, the expansion of MaaS360 to include extensive Mobile Expense Management capabilities.
Frankly this reporter would rather live in Blue Bell than San Jose.
MaaS360, company officials say, provides IT, finance and operations with information to gain insight into mobile activity and make more informed business decisions. It gives users the ability to monitor and track mobile data and application usage, so enterprises can have an easier time of enforcing corporate-wide expense policies, optimizing their mobile spend and “shifting the accountability more to the business and individual employees,” company officials say.
CFOs demanding that IT departments monitor and control wireless usage. Naturally, it’s how you keep costs down. MaaS360, according to company officials, can help with this as it provides a “secure, web-based console for managing wireless plans, data usage trends and policies without the need to deploy additional hardware, software or professional services.”
In other words, music to the ears of -- rightfully -- cost-conscious CFOs.
Delivered through the cloud, MaaS360 makes it simple to access real-time mobility intelligence while “bringing ROI with optimization strategies and cost control measures,” company officials say, noting that custom policies can be distributed to individuals, groups or groups of devices by a service provider:
“MaaS360's reporting functionality provides detailed metrics for individual usage by devices and company data usage trending information. IT administrators receive real-time alerts when data usage thresholds are met or exceeded, providing the opportunity to take automated action.”
MaaS360 for MEM has impressive features for iOS and Android (News - Alert) devices, including policies based on specific groups, where granular level policies can be set for both corporate-owned and employee-owned devices.
In August TMC’s (News - Alert) Jayashree Adkoli wrote that in an effort to provide customers with a more proactive approach to compliance management and wireless management (MDM) in general, Fiberlink introduced a cloud-based continuous compliance offering, MaaS360 Compliance Engine, for smartphones and tablets.
Fiberlink’s new MaaS360 Compliance Engine helps companies to meet regulatory requirements as well as implement compliance best practices to secure smartphones and tablets. Built on a highly scalable, multi-tenant architecture, it delivers instant-on access to powerful mobility management capabilities.
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.
Edited by Stefanie Mosca
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