More Public Sector Organisations Achieve Greater Cost Savings through Extending Secure Mobile Working Rollout

Service Birmingham, who deliver Birmingham City Council's ICT, have already deployed more than a thousand copies of their secure mobile VPN infrastructure of choice, NetMotion Mobility XE.

To extend the reach of the productivity and real-time working benefits to council colleagues wherever they may be, Birmingham has ordered a further one thousand copies to cope with demand for the greater efficiencies enabled by their mobile working solution.

In the same vein, Durham County Council has recently extended the reach of their mobile working transformation with yet another order of further licenses.

In central government, Partnerships UK have recently also extended the reach of their mobile working investment to reap further benefits.

Read on to share in a summary of the range of council services enabled by a GSi CoCo compliant secure mobile working solution that provides secure and simple remote access to network resources and applications over any IP network, enabling organizations to maximize the productivity, security and management of their worldwide mobile workforces. Centralised management tools give IT managers unparalleled control and flexibility-all in a scalable solution that is easy to deploy and maintain. Unlike legacy SSL and IPSec VPNs, Mobility XE is designed specifically for government use in wireless and mobile environments. Mobility XE incorporates true application session persistence, wireless performance optimization and InterNetwork Roaming^TM capabilities to offer security that works in the background without impacting the end user.

The context

As mobile computing has evolved and equipment and service costs have decreased, more organisations are realizing the productivity increases garnered by equipping workers with laptops, tablet PCs and smart handheld devices. Now a wide array of field service organizations from child and family services to highways, environmental, transport, public works, field inspectors and public services like utilities are deploying mobile computing technologies to improve service, increase worker productivity and make better use of budgetary resources.

Recoup Hidden Costs of the Unseen Challenge: Applications Connectivity

Continuous connectivity is not always present in a wireless environment. When users lose their connections, sessions drop, applications often crash, and users have to log on to the network again and again.

All too often, these problems do not become evident until after an organisation has deployed a system, or added applications that are not mobile-aware. Especially unfortunate, agencies often live with the problems, accepting decreased functionality and productivity because they are unaware that solutions exist.

NetMotion Mobility XE addresses these issues.

Click on the case studies below to share in a summary of the range of council services enabled by a GSi CoCo compliant secure mobile working solution that provides secure and simple remote access to network resources and applications over any IP network, enabling organizations to maximize the productivity, security and management of their worldwide mobile workforces. Centralised management tools give IT managers unparalleled control and flexibility-all in a scalable solution that is easy to deploy and maintain. Unlike legacy SSL and IPSec VPNs, Mobility XE is designed specifically for government use in wireless and mobile environments. Mobility XE incorporates true application session persistence, wireless performance optimization and InterNetwork RoamingTM capabilities to offer security that works in the background without impacting the end user.

Public Service Deployment Examples

Airwave

Birmingham City Council

Bournemouth City Council

Cherwell Dictrict Council

Derby Homes

Durham County Council

Johnson Controls

London Fire Brigade

Oxfordshire County Council

Oxford University

Powys County Council

St Luke's Hospital

Strathclyde Partner for Transport

Westminster City Council

Wolverhampton City Council

Summary

If one had to summarise the value to NetMotion Mobility XE customers, one could capture it in saying it offers "Reliability to Go". More specifically, NetMotion Mobility XE is a mobile VPN that presents an industrial-strength, single solution to the challenges of mobile deployments, as used by around 500,000 people in approaching 2,000 companies who depend on our software every day to perform their duties.

NetMotion Mobility XE:

• Keeps application sessions alive to prevent crashes as users encounter no-coverage zones, suspend and resume their devices or cross network boundaries
• Allows fat-client applications that were not written specifically with mobile deployments in mind to be used successfully in a mobile environment
• Automatically handles logins on behalf of the user, as well as the technical complexities of configuring for each connection as devices switch between networks
• Offers single sign-on each user, through integration with Windows Active Directory, RSA SecurID or RADIUS
• Supports strong "two-factor" authentication, and includes support for PKI X.509 v3 device and user certificates
• Ensures that devices have patches that are up-to-date, as well as properly configured, active and updated antivirus and antispyware protection
• Enforces proper bandwidth use by making sure that large data transfers stay off of slower networks, and that mobile computing resources are used appropriately
• Delivers intelligence on the usage and behaviour of individuals, devices, applications and networks, to drive higher productivity, monitor use of public resources and fine-tune the deployment
• Does all of the above in way that is essentially invisible to the user, improves productivity, and is highly resistant to user missteps that might impair the functionality of the device.