Secure mobile platform helps smaller businesses adopt BYOD
Allowing employees to use their own devices for work is increasingly popular, but it can present problems for smaller businesses when it comes to implementing the technology and keeping it secure.
California-based hopTo has an answer for small and medium businesses in the form of its mobile productivity platform hopTo Work. The platform provides instant BYOD functions with a flexible and secure mobile workspace.
Using hopTo Work employees can access files, corporate email, SharePoint sites, and the organization’s intranet web services and storage locations, along with full editing capabilities for Microsoft Office documents in a rich, touch-friendly user interface.
"We have taken an entirely different approach to BYOD that will provide the ultimate user experience while still meeting the needs of IT departments for corporate security and governance," says Eldad Eilam, President and CEO of hopTo. "We designed the hopTo Work platform to allow mobile business users access to their workplaces by leveraging the devices they are carrying in everyday life. This will deliver an instant BYOD solution that both IT departments and end-users can agree to implement and begin using immediately".
The platform doesn't need any network configuration effort, which eliminates the complex planning and deployment stages required with other BYOD solutions. It also offers best-of-breed protection against data loss by ensuring that documents remain on the server while being edited and viewed, rather than on the end-user’s devices. This means the organization retains full control over the flow of content, so documents are never at risk of leaking outside the organization.
Key hopTo Work features include a seamless user experience with the ability to multitask using multiple tabs, enabling users to easily switch back and forth between projects. Touch-friendly access to all permitted documents on the corporate network from a variety of sources such as SharePoint, local files, network shares, etc. Access to all Windows applications and rich, touch-friendly editing capabilities for Office documents (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) on the mobile device.
Early next year hopTo Work will receive additional enhancements including support for secure web browsing through the corporate network as well as support for secure access to corporate email in a native iOS user interface.
Introductory pricing is available until January 1st 2015 and you can find out more on the hopTo website.
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