Fixed Mobile Convergence

Thames River Capital, a U.K-based boutique investment firm with more than $14 billion in assets under management, deployed MobileIron to secure the adoption of smartphone and tablet devices into its enterprise environment.

MobileIron, a Mobile Device Management (MDM) provider, offered a central view of mobile activity, usage and service quality for both company and employee-owned devices. MobileIron enabled the flexible enforcement of data and device security policies. It improved capacity planning and mobile cost control across Thames River Capital.

It is important for the fund managers to have access to e-mail and business applications 24/7 in the U.K. and around the world. The main challenge for IT department was to secure the range of devices that enable productivity.

“We made the decision to shift from a 100 percent corporate-liable model for smartphones to one where we could give our employees the opportunity to use their own devices. In addition to BlackBerry (News - Alert) and iPhone management, we also needed to be able to support and secure the new iPads that were beginning to come into the firm,” said Robert Cockerill, IT manager of Thames River Capital, in a statement.

Thames River Capital selected MobileIron because of its ability to support the broadest range of Mobile Operating Systems, including Blackberry, iPhone and iPad, and manage the mobile devices, and the data on them, remotely.

“Companies have learned that once you've opened the door with ActiveSync, anyone can get in and you have no idea who they are or what they're doing,” said Ian Jennings, technical director at BlueFort. “For Thames River Capital, it was essential we provide a technology that had been field-tested and proven by other customers.”

The MobileIron solution creates clear boundaries between personal and business data on employee-owned devices. The lost phone lock and wipe functionality is activated by the user, but configured by the IT department to ensure enterprise data privacy.

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