Novell Makes BYOD Enterprise Ready

PRESS RELEASE

PROVO, Utah, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell today announced the availability of Novell(r) ZENworks(r) Mobile Management. ZENworks Mobile Management (ZMM) addresses the pain points device administrators and managers face today, including BYOD (bring your own device), security, application and file sharing, asset and inventory management and compliance issues. With this new solution, Novell extends its existing management and security capabilities to mobile devices. Novell now gives enterprises the ability to control and secure a large and diverse set of mobile devices in the workforce, including iOS, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile and other ActiveSync enabled devices, with minimal impact to IT overhead. The result is a more productive, agile and protected organization.

"The workforce is demanding mobile devices at work, whether they are company issued or personal, leaving administrators scrambling to catch up and solve the security and management challenges this brings. With this release, we're specifically addressing our customers' needs," said Eric Varness, vice president of product management and marketing for Novell. "The release of ZENworks Mobile Management provides enterprises with an easy-to-install solution to oversee mobile devices while ensuring security and fostering workplace productivity. Employees get what they need to be productive from anywhere without undue risk and expense to the enterprise. Adding mobile device management to organizations endpoint management capabilities is the next logical step to ensure the security and integrity of enterprise data and applications."

Key features of ZENworks Mobile Management include:

-- Over-the-Air/Hands-off Enrollment: Automates the process of enrolling new devices by leveraging ActiveSync mail server user credentials during the device registration process. -- Application Provisioning and File Sharing: Ensures the right applications and files are available to authorized users via the Enterprise App Store and management console. -- Customizable Security Settings: Empowers security teams and CISOs to define and customize security policies for mobile devices and audit enforcement, including encrypt/password enforcement and remote wipe. -- Inventory and Asset Management: Provides a view into what is connecting to an organization, as well as tracks and manages all the mobile devices in an organization. -- Alerts and Notifications: Gives the option to set alerts to automatically bring IT's attention to problems, violations or changes in security settings to ensure compliance, licensing and management needs are met. -- BYOD-Friendly: Works equally well with personally owned devices with enhanced features like selective remote-wipe (only wipe company data) and self-provisioning. A recent report from Forrester finds that 53 percent of employees use their own devices for work, marking a five-percent increase since the beginning of 2012. The research firm also predicts that within three years, BYOD will be standard policy for most companies(1). Novell ZENworks Mobile Management makes it easy for organizations to provide BYOD support, ensuring users have the right credentials and access to applications and files on their mobile devices, where and when they need it. Reporting and auditing functionality aids in compliance as ZMM provides visibility into who controls actions and processes while showing how activities are done making sure any necessary security actions are taken and documented to make proving compliance more efficient.

"The addition of Novell ZENworks Mobile Management to the ZENworks portfolio provides enterprises with a consolidated lifecycle management platform that unifies systems management practices for all endpoints within an organization onto a single console," said Steve Brasen, research director at Enterprise Management Associates. "As the lines continue to blur between mobile, laptop and desktop environments, comprehensive solutions that cross operating system boundaries are increasingly becoming essential to enterprise success. Novell has delivered a fully integrated management platform that will simplify mobile management processes while accelerating mobile device reliability and effectiveness."

Availability

Novell ZENworks Mobile Management is currently available. The MSRP license cost is $59 per device and $15 per year for maintenance. Alternatively, subscriptions are $30 per year. For more information, visit www.novell.com/zmm or contact your Novell representative.

About Novell

Novell, Inc. believes that customers should have choice and control of their IT systems. A global software leader to enterprises worldwide, Novell delivers solutions that make people more productive and work environments more secure and manageable. Novell supports thousands of organizations around the world with collaboration, endpoint management, and file and networking technologies, all of which drive end-user productivity directly or on the backend. With solutions including Novell GroupWise, Novell ZENworks and Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell focuses on today's mobile, social and multi-platform world to help businesses stay competitive, minimize costs, and get more value from the software they already own. For more information, visit www.novell.com.