Symantec Mobility: Suite 5.0 is almost here – building on our commitment to a new strategy, unveiled with the release of 4.0, to streamline and simplify the solution, so it can deliver significantly improved performance for customers and partners. The SaaS version is already out, with On-Premise scheduled for early October.
Symantec Mobility Suite 5.0 will:
- Offer a single console with flexible, modular packaging
- Improve the user experience (streamlined tasks and enrollment)
- Support Windows Phone 8.1, Samsung SAFE, and Apple iOS 8.
- Simplify Android device enrollment
Why does 5.0 matter so much? Because it is the most significant release to date for mobile management. While mobility offers ‘any device, any time, any place’ productivity, appealing to both enterprises and employees, that same flexibility comes with challenges – protecting corporate data on devices, separating personal and corporate information, managing diverse operating systems, and preventing devices and apps from becoming another attack vector.
Rather than rely on multiple point products, Symantec Mobility: Suite offers a unified solution of control that enforces consistent security standards, regardless of device type, without impeding the end user’s productivity or personal privacy. Mobility Suite simplifies mobility management, integrating mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM) and mobile threat protection into one comprehensive, single console solution. Whether a user’s environment is standardized on corporate-owned devices, allows them a ‘choose your own device’ (CYOD) program, embraces ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) or manages a mix of these options, Mobility Suite makes it easier for enterprises to master security, while maximizing productivity.
Symantec customers can now support Windows 8.1 and Samsung SAFE devices. Expanding our platform support remains a top initiative.
As far as Apple iOS 8 is concerned, it introduced a number of enterprise-friendly capabilities designed to make managing iOS devices easier for IT organizations. In addition to more device-level controls, Apple has extended its mobile device management (MDM) APIs to enable businesses to manage the growing number of applications in the enterprise. The iOS 8 enterprise-oriented features, such as data management and content filtering, demonstrate the importance of securing the data and not simply the device. All of this aligns tightly with Symantec’s enterprise mobility strategy to provide a single platform that securely manages apps and data, in addition to the devices themselves – and underscores why Symantec had support fully in place for iOS 7 from day 1 and support for IOS 8 before it was even released.
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‘DO-IT-ALL’ CAMPAIGN HITS FULL FORCE
Mobile is how businesses everywhere now work—and live – delivering productivity anytime, anywhere. That is why Symantec has committed an entire portfolio of assets and dollars to its ‘Do-It-All’ campaign, which kicked off on September 9th this year. And already its visibility and impact on websites, both customers and partners, is being picked up and remarked on. We’re confident you’ll begin to see the outcomes of this significant investment in Mobility to expand our awareness footprint.