RIM Still Not Clear on Multi-Day Outage > It already hurt them

reply to yabos

Re: It already hurt them

reply to Nightfall
Look at »www.good.com/android/

reply to DrDrew

reply to Nightfall
Used it (Good) was not all that happy... However, that was with Lotus Notes... Overall I was not impressed with Good & iPhone.

Currently use Mobile Iron for Android AND iPhone (ipad, etc).Mobile Iron works great in our international environment supporting M$ Exchange...

reply to Nightfall

reply to Nightfall
You know as a user and tweaker of my personal Android phone I say: good (that the admins lack 'management' of my device).

Let me put in the activesync server and access my mail and calendar, that's all I need. Otherwise keep your control-freak paws out of my device.

I think they can wipe it though as someone said, it asked for that permission when I set up the account. That's fine I assume they won't do that unless I tell them I lost it (it's also backed up anyway).

reply to Nightfall
"Sorry, but what the Iphone has is great capabilities, but no real way to centrally manage them."

You should really be careful before you make statements that come across as "Excuse me, how dare you try to say something that goes against my current knowledge" when you don't really know.

reply to pnjunction
The key word in your post is personal. That is fine and dandy. But if it is a company owned and provided device, the company has every right and should be able to do as it pleases with that device, including tracking it and monitoring what is going on on it.

reply to Nightfall
Well, you did make a bunch of matter-of-fact posts saying the iPhone didn't have enterprise management, or a centralized way to push out apps, or a centralized way to manage phones, and in reality you can do all of those things...

Basically your business maintains an MDM (Mobile Device Management) server, which communicate's with Apple's push notification service, which pushes the configurations down to the handsets. This PDF has more information:

»images.apple.com/iphone/business···_MDM.pdf

In addition to the basic remote wipe and lock, you can also push configuration profiles which can restrict or remove certain functionality (say you don't want people using the camera or the web browser or something, or you want to prevent the user from installing apps), you can install apps, remove apps, list installed apps (maybe make sure the user is abiding by soft policies), etc.

I don't know anything about RIM's enterprise management solution, but I don't really see anything missing here that RIM might do that Apple's solution doesn't.
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Developer: Tomato/MLPPP, Linux/MLPPP, etc »fixppp.org

For android there are third party tools. Some of those tools also work with iPhones, allowing simpler management if you have to handle multiple types of devices. But beyond that I don't know anything about it. I don't really know anything about Apple's management solutions either, only that they exist and what they do.
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Developer: Tomato/MLPPP, Linux/MLPPP, etc »fixppp.org