Empowering Remote Teams: Exploring Zoho One’s Mobile Application Management (MAM) Features

Introduction 

As remote work has gained more prominence, organizations have sought to find comprehensive solutions for managing and securing their mobile workforce properly. We have now seen this technology emerge in Zoho One with its Mobile Application Management (MAM) features that give organizations the controls they need to provision, manage, and secure the mobile applications their remote teams use to be productive while keeping data safe and compliant. Zoho One’s MAM features give organizations centralized control of application deployment and usage on either employee-owned (BYOD) or company-provided devices, important for organizations that want to enact good practices in managing their remote operations. 

Features of Zoho One’s Mobile Application Management (MAM) 

 

1. Centralized Application Deployment: Administrators are provided the ability to centrally deploy and manage company’s in-house applications and third-party apps to workers mobile devices from one console. This feature simplifies the ability to provide workers the tools that they need to do their function from home. 
2. App Configuration: MAM allows applications to be pre-configured before deployment. This ensures some consistency and familiarity between devices by ensuring that apps are configured with the organization preferred initial settings. In this way the user’s experience is more seamless, as apps are ready to use before distributed to the needed users. 
3. Security Policies: Organizations can enforce security policies at the application level without the need for complete MDM. Features can include disallowing users to share data from their applications, disallowing their own copy-paste functionality, or forcing the idea of a user authenticating before they can use the application. 
4. Selective Wipe: If a device were to be lost or stolen, or an employee has departed the organization, MAM allows an administrator to selectively wipe the data and applications associated with the organization, while leaving the users personal data untouched. This is an essential feature with BYOD. 
5. Application Updating and Management: Zoho One enables the deploying and seamless updating of applications, which allows remote teams to access the latest features and versions of applications, while providing administrators the ability to oversee app usage and manage licenses.  
6. Compliance Enforcement: By restricting and managing access and usage to applications, MAM can help organizations comply with a variety of compliance, regulations, and internal security policies to reduce risk with mobile device usage in external environments. 

Conclusion 

The Mobile Application Management (MAM) capabilities of Zoho One offered a complete suite of tools to enterprises dealing with the complexities of managing remote teams. It provides centralized management of the deployment, configuration, and security and updates of the technology being used, which gives organizations the opportunity to improve the productivity of their remote teams while protecting sensitive organizational data. Furthermore, the ability to enforce security policies at the application level and the ability to selectively wipe apps is a strong feature set that adds value to any organization that is taking advantage of remote working opportunities. In conclusion, MAM and the overall functionality provided by Zoho One provide teams with greater security, efficiency, and improved manageability to support successful outcomes regardless of physical location.