BoxTone 5.0 - Track and Control iPhones in the Enterprise

In an effort to extend its mobile user management solution to manage, track and control iPhone-, Palm Pre-, Windows Mobile- and other ActiveSync-based smartphones, BoxTone has released BoxTone 5.0. The company is known for handling management, monitoring and support solutions for BlackBerry customers. BoxTone claims that, if you’re worried about maintaining security and control yet your environment needs diversity, BoxTone 5.0 may be the answer to your problems.

According to the official report, BoxTone 5 enables enterprises, governmental agencies and managed service providers (MSPs) to automatically discover and inventory all enterprise-connected smartphones, as well as track utilization, identify threats and eliminate the wasted spend. In addition to optimizing the balance of service quality, cost and risk, IT organizations require a comprehensive approach such as BoxTone 5 in order to maximize the productivity of their cross-platform mobile workforce, BoxTone claims.

“With the invasion of employee-owned smartphones running on multiple mobile platforms, organizations are experiencing a new set of mobile management, compliance and cost challenges,” Alan Snyder, CEO, BoxTone, stated. “Increasingly, BoxTone’s more than 230 customers worldwide had been asking us to extend our best-in-class BlackBerry platform management solution to accommodate a variety of leading smartphones. Today we responded, with BoxTone v5.0.”

“The more smartphones connect to an enterprise, the higher the risk for lost or stolen sensitive information, and the potential for greater IT support costs,” Snyder added. “With enterprise-enabled smartphones expected to jump from 10-15 percent today to 70-80 percent by 2012, those risks and costs are set to significantly increase. Enterprises that fail to proactively address this challenge will be run over by the chaos, costs and complexity of mobile diversity.”

Visit the company here to have a closer look at BoxTone 5.0. The solution is available for purchase by enterprises, governmental entities and MSPs.