A lot of the Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms out there have much the same core functionality, and we’ve previously talked about the best ways to choose between MDM platforms (core functionality, ease and speed of setup, platform agnosticism). We keep coming back to Fiberlink’s MaaS360 as, hands down, the best when it comes to customer service and introduction of new features.
One of our favorite aspects of Fiberlink when it comes to the MaaS360 platform compared to many of the other platforms is the company’s focus not just on security-related pieces of mobile device management but also on enabling the business productivity potential of administrators who have access to mobile devices within an organization, namely its application storefront and document management capabilities. Fiberlink just recently updated its document management capabilities to include native categorization and “time to self-destruct” features. This is really exciting for TechOrchard, as many of our clients (all of which are on Fiberlink’s management platform) have been asking for a method to distribute sensitive documents to devices that will automatically expire within a certain time frame, without an administrator having to intervene and delete a document manually from a system.
In addition to this great new doc management feature, new email notifications, PII restrictions and new compliance rules were pushed live. These should be available as soon as the MaaS360 app and Android agents are updated. Now … if Fiberlink and Apple could just figure out that darned multiple-password-entry cache issue (perhaps the iOS 5.1.1 update today has helped that).
