What the heck is an Enterprise Mobility Suite Microsoft?
(http://thedevicepros.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ems_vision_video_thumb.jpg)In episode 18 (www.thedevicepros.com/enterprise-mobility-suite-episode-18)Frank and Alfred share some great information about the new cloud solution from Microsoft called Enterprise Mobility Suite (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/enterprise-mobility-suite/).  Microsoft has packaged together some of their individual cloud offerings to form a comprehensive solution designed to address people centric IT (PCIT (http://thedevicepros.com/people-centric-it-episode-9/)), consumerization of IT (COIT), bring your own device (BYOD) and software as a service (SaaS) in a cost effective method.  The three main components are:

Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory/)
Windows Intune (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-intune/)
Microsoft Azure Rights Management (http://products.office.com/en-us/business/microsoft-azure-rights-management)
What's so great about that?
The industry is currently dealing with some new challenges, Microsoft has identified them as the following.

1.  Users expect to be productive across a variety of device types, with access to the applications they need.

2.  Businesses need to unify their infrastructure technology environment with a common identity across on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and the cloud, with deeply integrated capabilities for PC and mobile device management.

3.  Businesses must protect their data, so they require a comprehensive set of access control and data-protection capabilities.

The focus of Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) is to make it easy for IT to address these challenges thereby enabling their workforce to consume solutions/services provided by IT safely and securely.  In addition by bundling these solutions business will be able to save a bundle as shown in the table below.  Have a look at the whitepaper (http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/3/7/137B2CF6-79FE-438B-BA00-F343022C3CE3/Enabling_Enterprise_Mobility_white_paper.pdf) from Microsoft.

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The Device Pros are kicking off a three podcast series diving deeper into each one of these cloud solutions provided by Microsoft.  We have a couple of surprise guests, including Richard Smith (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-smith-microsoft-corp/3/712/735) of The Deployment Guys, joining us to dig into this fantastic offering from Microsoft.
Hybrid Identity Video

Mobile Device Management

Information Protection

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