Revision of IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices from April 20, 2012 - 7:23pm

Provider Info

Web Site: 

http://www-142.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/ibmendpmanaformobidevi

Phone: 

+ 1 877 426 3774

Read EMA's Impact Brief: "IBM Boldly Enters the Mobile Device Management Marketspace with New Tivoli Endpoint Manager Module"

In today’s mobile world, enterprises are transforming the way they interact with their customers, partners and employees by implementing mobile strategies that enable them to:

• Build, connect, and run a growing portfolio of mobile apps for customers, partners and employees
• Manage and secure mobile applications and data on a variety of mobile devices and operating systems
• Extend and transform the business to yield new opportunities and business models while extending existing business capabilities to mobile employees, customers, and partners

IBM can help organizations develop and implement mobile strategies that are

Open: standards-based and future-ready
Connected: with mobile access points integrated with back-end systems
Managed: through proactive security; centralized deployment, maintenance and support for applications, devices and infrastructure

IBM offers a comprehensive set of solutions to meet our customer's mobile requirements so they can seize the opportunities that the mobile world provides while reducing cost and complexity.

IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices provides a completely integrated approach for managing, securing, and reporting on laptops, desktops, servers, smartphones, tablets, and even specialty devices such as point-of-sale terminals. This provides customers with unprecedented real-time visibility and control over all devices employees use in their daily job functions; reducing costs, increasing productivity, and improving compliance.

Built on the IBM BigFix platform, Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices can:

• Install in hours
• Manage up to 250,000 devices per management server
• Easily handle ad-hoc query and action needs
• Integrate with service desk, CMDB, asset management, identity and access management solutions, and security information management (SIEM) systems
• Eliminate the need for separate mobile device and traditional endpoint infrastructures and reports
• Receive and implement functional updates from the IBM content cloud delivery service without needing a customer-side software update

Packaging

SaaS: 

Appliance: 

Windows Software: 

Mac Software: 

Unix Software: 

Virtual Machine: 

Reseller Theming: 

Licensing

Recurring License: 

Perpetual License: 

Maintenance

Purchase: 

Optional

Includes Dot Releases: 

Includes Major Releases: 

Includes Support: 

Support

12 x 5: 

12 x 7: 

24 x 7: 

Scalability

Locations: 

Location-Specific Admins: 

Role-Based Admins: 

Fault Tolerance

Standalone Server: 

Fail-Over Capability: 

Load Balancing: 

Enrollment

Web Portal: 

iOS App: 

Bulk Upload: 

API: 

Enrollment Authentication

Active Directory: 

Open Directory: 

Other LDAP: 

User Upload: 

Mobileconfig Features

Require Passcode: 

Device Restrictions: 

Exchange Account Seeding: 

WiFi Configuration: 

VPN - L2TP: 

VPN - Cisco AnyConnect: 

VPN - Juniper: 

VPN - F5: 

iOS 5 Mobileconfig

"Push" Retail Apps: 

Encrypted Mail: 

Sandbox Mail: 

Prevent iCloud: 

Wi-Fi Auto-Join: 

On Demand Features

Remove Passcode: 

Remote Lock: 

Remote Wipe: 

Push Text Message: 

Profile Features

Versioning: 

Triggered by Inventory: 

App Management

Push Web Apps: 

Catalog of In-House Apps: 

Recommended Retail Apps: 

VPP Integration: 

Vendor-provided iOS App(s)

IBM Endpoint Manager Mobile Client

Admin Notifications

Alert When Roaming: 

Alert When No Response: 

Alert on Forbidden App: 

Administration Console

Web: 

API or SDK: 

Desktop App: 

Data Export

Device Status: 

App Inventory: 

Device History: 

Integration

Apple GSX: 

Microsoft BPOS: 

Good: 

Other Helpdesk: 

Certificate Features

Enterprise SCEP Integration: 

Local CA with SCEP: 

Apply Certs to Exchange: 

Apply Certs to WiFi: 

Apply Certs to VPN: 

LDAP Features

Dynamic Policies by LDAP group: 

Dynamic Policies by LDAP OU: 

Dynamic Policies by LDAP Attribute: 

Custom Message by LDAP Attribute: 

Other Devices

Android: 

Blackberry: 

Symbian: 

Windows Mobile: 

Windows Phone 7: 

Windows Desktops: 

Mac Desktops: 

Linux Desktops: