Businesses are increasingly embracing the digital workplace as part of their digital transformation. Mobility services have to be more than just enabling BYOD. Employees and customers expect the interactions and experiences delivered to them to be personal and secure, regardless of time or place, across a multitude of different devices. InaCOMP offers professional wireless networking solutions, wireless networking support and wireless networking consulting services in Kalamazoo, MI.

Designing, implementing, managing and supporting an all wireless workplace can cost less to deploy and run with the right solutions. IT must provide a reliable quality of service along with secure corporate and guest access. The Enterprise IT department must find ways to engage with today’s end users by meeting consumer benchmarks for productivity tools, including cloud connected services, and delivering compelling digital experiences that increase workplace productivity.

A successful mobility strategy should focus on business priorities and outcomes. It starts with business value:

• What in the organization’s culture needs to change to embrace digital productivity?

• Should the mobility strategy include the development of new mobile apps?

• How can IT meet regulation and compliance requirements?

• How can internal communication and collaboration systems be integrated with external systems utilized by key partners and customers?

• How can users connect from a variety of devices and from a variety of locations while IT still secures the network?

Delivering the right access to the applications, tools and data that individuals and teams need to be their most productive, while maintaining the required security, is critical. A wireless first workplace with context and personalization and the ability to rapidly provision services to meet new demands requires a new approach. The right strategy should allow the organization to attain the goals of a digital workplace:

• Seamlessly connect employees, partners and customers to tools, information, services and expertise to maximize productivity.

• Deliver compelling user experiences that engage and empower

• Improve collaboration and communication internally and externally

A true digital workplace brings together applications, information and collaboration tools in an intelligent context that can be tailored to an employee’s role, location, and tasks. Organizations that have adopted digital workplace tools report increased customer satisfaction, faster innovation, and improved employee engagement. The transformation to a digital workplace allows companies to drive revenues, attract and retain talent, and outperform the competition. Taking steps now to deploy digital workplace tools can give your organization a significant market advantage.

BYOD means that devices that are not managed by IT enter the network. How can IT protect the network? Identity management solutions set network access policy based on mobile device management protocols. IT can enable automatic device provisioning and profiling for any level of security compliance requirements. Users can register and seamlessly get their devices onto the network securely, whether the solution is managed on premise or in the cloud.

Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager solves today’s security challenges across wired or wireless networks with context-aware policies. It delivers visibility, policy control and workflow automation in one cohesive solution. Security starts with understanding what devices are being used, how many, and which operating systems are supported. With the built-in profiling engine, ClearPass collects real time date needed to identify what’s on the network. Once IT knows what is on the network, they can enforce policies that provide proper user and device access, regardless of user, device type, or location.

Wireless traffic is expected to triple in the next three years and exceed wired traffic by 21%. Is your current network ready to support the explosion of wireless devices and the requirements of new mobile applications? Organizations need to:

• Significantly boost network performance with greater scale and coverage to connect an ever-increasing number of devices.

• Support applications effectively with the performance needed for video, collaboration, and other business critical applications.

• Use the network to speed business processes and introduce services that drive revenue and productivity.

• Improve customer service and employee experiences by providing a better user experience with faster, more reliable connections.

Aruba AP’s are powered by ClientMatch technology to ensure that all devices have the fastest connection at all times. The newest Wave 2 AP’s deliver screaming fast speeds with an HPE Smart Rate multi-gig uplink to boost network performance.

• Simplify management and access to data, while keeping data secure in a data center.

• Make legacy applications available on mobile devices.

• Make graphics and analytic intensive applications that cannot run on a stand-alone mobile device available to mobile users.

HPE ConvergedSystem for Client Virtualization lets organizations deploy and manage a virtualized client environment with one fully integrated, pre-tested solution. IT gains better control and security with a simpler infrastructure and the enterprise can enable and manage an increasingly mobile workforce so that users can be more productive. Key features include:

• Blazing speed with up to 96% faster configuration time to allow IT to deploy in weeks, not months. IT can provision in minutes and scale seamlessly.

• Powerfully efficient with IT automation and lifecycle management built in.

• Conveniently simple to order, configure, deploy and service with preconfigured converged systems from a single vendor.

An effective Mobile Device Management (“MDM”) solution is key to securing, managing and monitoring corporate or employee owned mobile devices that access business critical data. With the right solution, IT has the visibility and control needed to securely deploy, manage and retire devices as needed. The right MDM solution should:

• Simplify device enrollment through a seamless setup process as soon as a device is powered on.

• Allow users to manage common tasks through a self-service portal.

• Simplify configuration and reduce help desk calls with automated device setup.

• Give authorized users access to business resources with identity and access management capabilities to easily connect to enterprise email, VPN, Wi-Fi, content and intranet sites.

• Enforce security policies including password settings, device encryption, and data loss prevention.

• Monitor device compliance.

Aruba’s ClearPass Onboard lets BYOD and employee issued devices connect safely to the network in compliance with security mandates. Flexible policies and unique certificates enable personalized access based on roles, device type, and security procedure. ClearPass makes it easy to automatically provision settings and certificates. The ClearPass Onboard portal dynamically detects a device’s operating system and guides the user through the appropriate steps. The ClearPass solution can:

• Enable users to self-register and securely onboard multiple devices.

• Support Windows, MAC OS, iOS< Android, Chromebook and Ubuntu operating systems.

• Support Active Directory and social login credential authentication.

• Automate the configuration of network settings for wired and wireless endpoints.

• Uniquely provision and revoke device-specific credentials and certificates.

• Provide a built-in certificate authority for BYOD.

• Provide BYOD visibility and centralized policy management capabilities.