AirWatch Continues Industry Leadership By Combining The Most Secure And Functional Mobile Device Management Platform With Transparent Pricing
Innovative functionality, largest R&D team, $40 one-time license price and industry domain expertise continually positions AirWatch as the leading MDM and MAM provider
AirWatch, the global leader and innovator in mobile security, mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), sets the industry benchmark for competitive and transparent published pricing along with the most secure and functionally robust platform. AirWatch's highly regarded functionality and deep domain expertise coupled with the solution's value pricing, results in the company being one of the! most highly rated MDM vendors by leading industry-analyst firms. AirWatch pricing is $40 per device as a one-time license fee or $3 per device per month for its hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) product. AirWatch offers additional discounts to education and non-profit customers as well as volume-based discounts.
AirWatch simplifies enterprise mobility for organizations of all sizes and industries by providing a best-in-class, innovative solution. The company is proactive and ! aggressive in its R&D investments with more than 300 employees and the industry's largest R&D team, which ensures speed-to-market and effective, rapid deployments.
In its recent Mobile Device Management Vendor Landscape report, Info-Tech Research Group identified AirWatch as a Champion in the MDM market, saying "AirWatch had the lowest cost among the vendors we assessed, but also excelled in advanced features, making it a great value and an easy recommendation for most businesses."
"Enterprises demand solid, innovative MDM solutions," said Stephen Drake, program vice president of Mobility and Telecom Research, IDC. "These requirements become even more critical when IT budgets are increasingly analyzed and the scope of work widens. It isn't about the lowest cost, but the best value price and whether a product offers feature-rich functionality and meets enterprise needs."
AirWatch is built on a robust, multi-tenant architecture and offers the industry's most scalable and flexible deployment options with SaaS, appliance or on premise solutions. Unlike most competitors, AirWatch's SaaS deployment option provides multiple redundant data centers; best-of-class hardware such as Cisco, F5, Riverbed, EMC and Dell; 24/7/365 in-house, on-shore support; high availability; and standard SLAs. SaaS pricing starts at $3 per month subscription per device. On premise pricing starts at a one-time fee of $40 per device and offers physical or virtual hardware, a single server to a highly available and redundant environment and streamlined installation. The appliance deployment option! provides tiered solutions to optimize appliance size, industry standard hardware, redundant hardware components and AirWatch perpetual licenses. Appliance pricing starts at a one-time fee of $6,500 for the hardware and includes a one-year warranty.
"Our aggressive approach to R&D enables us to stay ahead of the ever changing and growing mobile landscape," said John Marshall, CEO, AirWatch. "This helps our customers to address current and emerging challenges with the most funct ionally robust, secure and innovative MDM and MAM ! solution available. AirWatch has both the best product and the best pr ice point, which is paramount for enterprises. It is extremely rare that companies do not need to choose between an unparalleled product and merely a product they can afford."
The AirWatch solution provides a full set of mobile security, MDM and MAM features, including the most accessible, easy-to-use web- and mobile-based management console; a Secure Email Gateway; an AirWatch App Catalog; the ability to securely manage both corporate- and employee-liable devices and location-based services. AirWatch's API integration capabilities include the ability to integrate key enterprise platforms such as LDAP directory servers, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft BPOS-D, Microsoft Office 365, IBM Lotus Notes and Google Gmail for Business, as well as Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) and certificate management frameworks, streamlining the generation and management of certificates used on mobile devices for authentication and encryption. AirWatch also provides enterprises with advanced reporting, including an extensive library of high-level and detailed device reports. IT administrators can leverage these pre-defined reports or create custom reports based on specific devices, user groups, date ranges or file preferences.
About AirWatch
AirWatch is the global leader and innovator of enterprise-grade smartphone security and mobile device management solutions. Positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner, Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management Software 2011, AirWatch helps to deploy, secure, track and manage an enterprise's entire fleet of Android, Apple's iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Windows 7 and Symbian devices. In October 2011, Info-Tech Research Group listed AirWatch as a "Champion" in the firm's Mobile Device Management Vendor Landscape and also listed it as the "best bang for your buck" through its Value Score, which indexes each product offering and business strength relative to their price point.
AirWatch offers the industry's most scalable and flexible deployment options with Software as a Service (SaaS), appliance or on premise solutions. SaaS pricing starts at a $3 per month subscription per device. Appliance pricing starts at a one-time fee of $6,500 for the hardware and includes a one-year warranty. On premise pricing starts at a one-time fee of $40 per device.
An award-winning company, AirWatch has more tha n 1,500 customers in the retail, financial services, healthcare, government, distribution, education, hospitality, manufacturing, telecommunications and transportation industries. For more information, visit www.air-watch.com.
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