IBM Lotus Mobile Connect
Driven to be more flexible and responsive to marketplace forces, enterprises like yours are pushing business processes out to the point of contact with customers and service delivery. What “in the office” means is being redefined, because the workplace now extends beyond the physical walls of your enterprise to include mobile and remote workers in a car, home office, hotel, airport, at a customer site, or anywhere in between.
Many mobile employees still use laptops, but handheld mobile devices represent the next wave of productivity tools that are rapidly becoming a necessary component for long-term business success. With an effective handheld mobile device strategy, your company can make more informed business decisions, accelerate transactions, strengthen relationships with customers and business partners, and provide onsite services — at the time and place required.
As wireless broadband services and cellular data services grow in popularity, you need to provide your mobile workers with security-rich access to enterprise information over wireless and wired networks and from the growing number of wireless hot spots, such as those found in airports, truck stops, coffee shops, and hotels. You want your mobile workers to access important information securely across multiple networks— without interruption —so they can do business and collaborate at any time from virtually anywhere. To achieve this goal, you face many challenges, such as:
- Providing real-time access to information and applications
- Securing network roaming and connection management
- Securing enterprise data outside the firewall
- Supporting growing set of pervasive devices
- Lowering telecommunications and network management costs
Our Approach to Meeting Your Goals
IBM Lotus Mobile Connect software can help boost the productivity of your mobile workers by giving them security-rich, uninterrupted access to the data they need. Offering a distributed, scalable, multipurpose communications platform, Lotus Mobile Connect software can help you optimize bandwidth, often reduce costs, and promote security by efficiently extending your existing applications to workers in the field over many different wireless and wired networks.
How Lotus Mobile Connect helps meet your mobile challenges:
- Simplifies user access and connectivity across various networks
- Single sign-on with IBM WebSphere® Application Server & IBM WebSphere Portal solutions
- No changes to applications running on the mobile device
- Security-rich IP roaming across different networks & firewalls with application persistence
- Operate over IP, non-IP, wired or wireless networks
- No changes needed for underlying networks
- Provides multiple levels of security policy enforcement
- Enables strong authentication and encryption
- Strong security features, FIPS 140-2 certified
- Standardized, open standards approach re-usable across multiple devices and device types
- Network Address Translation, packet filtering, management
- Short Messaging Gateway – SMS paging
- Enables enforcement of corporate policy on access connection
- Supports intelligent selection of carrier and access method based on telecommunications rates and costs
- Mobile VPN with traffic optimization for network bandwidth and latency issues