Sybase Afaria [EOL] Reviews

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It helped our organization in securing our enterprise data on mobile devices.

Mobile Device Management is easier through Afaria because of a simpler and more understandable GUI.

It has helped in managing and categorizing the devices and managing them in an effective way within less time.

Standard MDM functionality.

It has enabled us to package and deploy enterprise mobile apps.

App distribution and restriction policies i.e. device settings, and OTA updated restrictions. Other valuable features are the ability to black list/white list some applications and thus selectively install the productive ones!

Instead of publishing a web page with the link to the app, now we publish the apps via Afaria and we know who installed the app (software inventory component of Afaria). We also have a clue on how people use the corporate device and Afaria also helps enough with the telecom expense management.

It provides us with email access control, which is important for both our daily operations and for the security of our email system.

Emails are a basic business function that's essential to our functioning. Afaria provides us with much greater control over this essential function, which is important from both a workflow and business perspective.

Integration with SAP Products like SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Business Objects Mobile and ease of integration with enterprise security standards such as AD, Certificate services, reverse proxies.

My current organisation doesn't use Afaria, but organizations I have worked with on implementing Afaria typically s that are used to store enterprise data such as email.

The most valuable feature is the application and configuration policy.

Since it's mobility era and all data is in either mobile devices or tablets that need to be secured, Afaria protects corporate data from hacking or lost/stolen devices.

The most valuable features are those surrounding device management, deployment, application security, and policy management.

In my previous implementation, we rolled out device management and security policies for 5000+ devices in a week's time. This greatly reduced the time it took to manage the application setting and other email/calendar settings.