ISV Benefits
Many ISVs are struggling with the options for mobile-enabling their existing solutions and face many challenges in delivering mobile solutions with the mix of security, performance, maintainability and ease of use their customers expect, while keeping their focus on core products and managing costs.
Rover Apps can help address these challenges with a mobile development platform that can be leveraged to rapidly get to market with a rich set of features that augment the value of the ISV’s product and reduce barriers to deployment and adoption. Security is the number one concern that both end user accounts and ISV vendors cite regarding mobile deployment considerations. Everything from on-device information protection to managing access to an ever-increasing number of devices, to the concerns over linking personal devices to existing corporate networks are all barriers to deployment.
Rover addresses these core concerns with our revolutionary RoverLink technology that delivers security through rigorous encryption and through unique communications intermediation options that keep mobiles off the network, yet provide authorized users rapid and simple access.
Additionally, our managed-container app approach is what allows organizations to have centralized control over what the mobile users see and what they are allowed to access, as well as providing the secure storage of data in its encrypted form. This app also enforces security policies established by the gateway it interacts with to ensure that companies control access, and are not reliant on end-user device settings.
User experience
ISVs care a lot about high-quality user experience, and Rover offers several services and included technologies to help ensure the richest user experience.
ISVs often choose modern web-technologies with recent mobile-centric extensions like HTML5 to deliver their first cross-platform solution for mobiles, but rapidly run into customer push-back such as:
- “I don't like having to type in my password all the time.”
- “What if somebody loses their phone? Can somebody see our corporate data?”
- “How can we make sure only approved devices use this?”
- “Can this work as fast as a native app does?”
Rover has full support of rich web technologies, with several important additions that help ISVs address:
Security
- Encrypted caches on device with our secure container app delivers maximum data security
- Device Access Controls assure that only approved devices may access corporate data
- Remote wipe of all data within our secure container app if device is flagged as lost
- Policy settings on our gateway enforce credential refreshes, PIN locks, and other data management policies on our secure container app
Ease of use
- through credentials caching – no more login every time the app is accessed
- Integrates with your user authentication system
Improved performance
- Significant performance improvements due to compression of all payloads and smart container app caching
- Options to leverage client-side local storage options from JavaScript for further performance boosts
Native Device feature access
- Integrating the PhoneGap model for native device feature access to things like camera, audio, accelerometer and others, ISVs can deliver complete user experiences
- Options to leverage client-side local storage options from JavaScript for further performance boosts
Multiple deployment options
- Deploy a custom-branded version of our container app and leverage all the features of Retriever
- Take our single-gateway minimal framework and build your own branded native app, extending with further native code if desired.
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