Apple, IBM Partnership Yields First Results: 10 Mobile Apps 53
itwbennett writes IBM and Apple have unveiled the first results of the enterprise IT partnership they announced in July: 10 mobile applications aimed at businesses in six industries as well as government users. One of the apps, for example, allows a flight crew to personalize a passenger's in-flight experience. An app targeted at the banking industry allows a financial advisor to remotely access and manage a client's portfolio. And police officers can use iPhones to view video feeds from crime scenes with an app for law enforcement.
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i agree you should focus on safety and security first so you choose to add androids. very sensible dude. I bet you like to put out unpatched XP boxes.
Re:Like hell I'd allow an iPhone on my network (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Like hell I'd allow an iPhone on my network (Score:4, Funny)
I just checked. His parents said he could stay.
Re:Like hell I'd allow an iPhone on my network (Score:4, Informative)
Like hell I'd allow an iPhone on my network
Strange, seeing as iPhone is one of the most manageable devices out there, second only to Blackberry and not by a very wide margin even then.
Not only can you push a wifi policy automatically for any BYOD iPhones that join your wifi to control network related policies, but managed (MDM) iPhones give you as much control over them as windows group policy does over windows desktops.
In fact the only one feature iPhone doesn't measure up on compared to Blackberry is app pushing over cellular. Since the discussion seems to be more about "letting them on the network" assuming wifi access isn't unreasonable, and removes that one limitation completely.
Has any progress what so ever been made with enterprise managing of android without any 3rd party solutions? As of the last android OS there was basically nothing to speak of, so I can't see them catching up these last 8ish years in just a few months.
Letting android on the network is about as secure as letting non-domain home windows systems on, so it is quite amusing you feel this is a better option!
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I agree with what you wrote above. And I say this as a long term Apple fan, but Samsung Knox + good MDM IMHO is probably ahead of Apple + good MDM in terms of security. So while it is true you need 3rd party tools you can at this point secure an Android (Samsung only though) much better than you can an Apple device.
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2013 articles are about a Knox1. They are also bunk. Knox provides the critical hardware components. The MDM provides the rest. Knox isn't meant to be a complete solution. The vulnerabilities are much further up the stack.
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How many users are you talking?
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Well at that number. I'd think you could be at something like $5/user/mo pretty easily and if you hunt more like $3/user/mo. What kinds of bids are you seeing?
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Well if you want free not cheap, then why care about cheap? Anyway Google free MDMs there are some out there.
Though as an aside if you are broke its hard to see what you are worried about losing in the case of a data breach.
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Though as an aside if you are broke its hard to see what you are worried about losing in the case of a data breach.
He said "very poor" not "broke". And you are a lot more vulnerable when you are metaphorically on the breadline, as relatively minor extra cost could tip you over the edge.
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Understood. But its worth figuring out what the MDM is for. What are they guarding against? If there aren't assets what are they worried about being lost on mobiles? The additional cost of managing security is not low.
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I've been using Meraki MDM for a bit over a year now for managing my own devices, and have been quite pleased so far.
Sadly about a year back Cisco acquired them so there have been some changes in pricing and scope, but the free standard version is still available even if slightly hidden (most 'try now' links go to the enterprise signup page)
It now manages Cisco APs, Cisco switches, MDM, and a bit more random stuff.
Their main page is:
https://meraki.cisco.com/ [cisco.com]
MDM specific info is at:
https://meraki.cisco.com/s [cisco.com]
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IBM bought a whole company for that: http://www.maas360.com/ [maas360.com]
They also resell arguably the most professional MDM management suite out there: http://www.voxmobile.com/ [voxmobile.com]
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What's next? (Score:2)
Grindr for Execs?
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How much will these apps cost? Are they free? Are they free except you have to pay $$$ for the required analytics?
Who knows? They are meant for businesses, and they are made by IBM, and IBM is in it for the money. So significant amounts of money will change hands from customers to IBM, one way or another.
:-)
These are not web apps, these are proper apps. You know the apps that you need a PC for and not a toy tablet. Except they run on an iPad. You buy them and give them to your employees who use them for work. Which you can't do on a toy tablet. Except you can
You have been hacked (Score:1)
Coming soon... (Score:2)
Run Away !
10 mobile apps is news? (Score:2)
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Who cares? Is Dice taking slashvertisement money from IBM now?
Whores will gladly accept money from anyone -- especially staid old companies looking for one last fling before The Inevitable comes and claims them.
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Who cares? This is a computer news site. Since when is IBM's activities not legitimate news?
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They might, but DEC and SUN were totally appropriate for /. years ago too (well actually DEC was bought before /. existed, but regardless they would have been appropriate and HP now is). IBM did just short of $100b in revenues last year. So in the meanwhile before they die, they are news.
WTF (Score:2)
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According to the IBM site, it means that the flight crew can rebook flights for passengers when they will be missing connections, etc.
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That is you doing the rebooking. This is the flight crew rebooking for you. They are not the same. And having gone through both ways (my rebooking vs airline rebooking) I much prefer to have the airline do it. However, you used to have to wait til you were on the ground for the airline to rebook.
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Mod parent up insightful. And from extensive experience booking travel, I can assure you the tools the airlines use are better (more responsive, better data) than what they give us access to.
Linked article is kind of light on details (Score:2)
For instance:
- Are these apps installed via a custom store, or distributed/managed using a internal company server? I'm assuming they don't exist on the Apple store -- or do they?
- Screen shots of the apps?
- Names of the apps?
As it stands it's pretty much a press release that's not really "news for nerds" ... 10 more apps is a rounding error of a rounding error of apps already in the App Store.
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The news isn't the apps. The news is that the IBM/Apple partnership has progressed into a 2nd meaningful release. That being said, these apps are probably going to be distributed internally or via. IBM's substores for customers. For example I know they run United Airlines internal application repository.
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Given they're enterprise apps, "custom" app store (actually, Enterprise signing certificate + device provisioning a
First Principles: CONSUMER (Score:2)
IBM (old guys) wants the worlds most valuable and most popular consumer product company to crack into BYOD enterprises. SteveJobs built the most valuable company on the planet based upon CONSUMER from Day0 at AAPL. After being kicked out of Apple, SteveJobs turned focused on Enterprise with his NeXT Inc. venture. Ten years later NeXT had changed computing. It popularized O-O with Obj-C providing Soloman Inc. the tool and means to abstract financial instruments for trading bonds. That precluded WallSt. C