Enterprise Mobility—Features and Benefits

Enterprise mobility, yes we have heard its good, and it offers a lot, but what does it mean? Enterprise mobility is the way you change work habits, with employees working on the go through their mobile devices or performing business tasks on the cloud.

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility offers better security and identity-driven innovations that help stay productive and secure on device and apps. Let’s look at some of the benefits of Enterprise Mobility by Microsoft.

Identity Control and Cloud Access

Adopt employee devices at work with SaaS applications, maintaining complete control over the applications on every corporate database and public clouds has become difficult. Microsoft, on the other hand, tackles this problem well with Forefront Identity Manager and Windows Server Active Directory. These solutions now have been extended to Azure Active Directory to provide access management solution and cloud-based identity.

Low Helpdesk Costs and Increased Productivity

Managing different passwords for multiple accounts is a challenge. Employees often find it difficult to remember different passwords across devices, especially if they are not getting a consistent experience. The Microsoft helpdesk ensures that employees save time and can easily perform all the self-service tasks such as resetting the password if forgotten and raising a request for application access. All of this can be achieved without having to wait for helpdesk assistance.

Corporate Resources—Control and Manage Access

The solutions by Microsoft access and identity management helps protect the IT access for resources and applications throughout cloud and corporate data center; while adding multiple layers of validation such as conditional access policies and factor authentication. It has become easier to identify security issues with auditing, security reporting, and alerting.

Benefits at a Glance:

• Managing and creating an individual identity for every user on hybrid enterprise, groups, devices, and keeping users in sync
• Improving user productivity by self-resetting forgotten password and raising requests for application access for cloud datacenter and directories
• Utilizing the reliability and high-availability of enterprise-grade, worldwide, cloud-based access and identity management solution
• Providing access to a single sign-on for all the applications that include all the SaaS apps (pre-integrated)
• Providing on-premise web application secure remote access through Microsoft Azure AD Application Proxy
• Enabling the access security of applications by adding rules-based authentication that is multi-factor for both the cloud applications and on-premise.

These are the benefits of one of the five new features of Enterprise Mobility.