Press Release: mobco and the the Enterprise Mobility Expert Alliance announce its European mobile IT Academy

 

Today, at MobileIron Live in Berlin, the Enterprise Mobility Expert Alliance (the EMEA) announced the launch of a European mobile IT Academy that organizes courses and classes across Europe. The launch of the EMEA Academy fits into the strategy of the alliance of preparing companies for the future of the modern workplace.

On Wednesday 15 May 2019, the EMEA launched the European mobile IT Academy at MobileIron Live in Berlin. This EMEA Academy is the latest initiative of the alliance of leading mobile IT companies from Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

“Mobco is one of the founding members of the EMEA alliance, and it was founded with the intention to mainly share technical knowledge between our teams across borders,” says mobco CEO Ulrik Van Schepdael. “But we all noticed a lack of available mobile IT courses for our customers and even for our own teams. That’s why we decided to launch the EMEA Academy.”

By organizing courses on a European level, it will be much easier for IT teams to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in mobile IT. It is even possible for companies to request a specific class and book the expert for an in-house session. “Cooperation is really key when you’re active in mobile IT,” says Björn Kemps, Director of Operations at mobco. “By cooperating in the EMEA academy we are able to share our expertise on a much wider scale and our customers gain access to a broad portfolio of mobile expertise. Our clients will truly benefit from the EMEA Academy.”

The EMEA Academy consists of courses and classes about different mobile IT topics ranging from MobileIron Administrator courses to Microsoft EMS master classes and Mobile Security courses.

You can find the entire EMEA Academy calendar HERE.

 

About mobco:

mobco, founded in 2010, is a leading integrator of mobile technology and service provider with offices in Dilbeek, Belgium and Capellen, Luxemburg. The mission of mobco is to mobilize the business of its customers by offering hardware, software and services for the modern workplace.

mobco is founding member of the Enterprise Mobility Expert Alliance (EMEA.mobi), a European alliance of companies active in mobile technology. The EMEA manages a total of over 1 million modern workplaces.

Contact Details:

mobco

Ulrik Van Schepdael

uvs@mob.co

+32 475 51 51 02

mobco wins Lookout award!

On the 2018 partner conference held by Lookout, mobco won the partner award for its achievements in securing mobile devices!

Lookout continues to invest in mobile intelligence to detect and counter attacks on mobile devices. This intelligence is used by mobco to further secure and protect data on mobile devices.

As stated by Mike Murray, VP at Lookout, the mobile device is ‘the’ place where malicious attacks take place these days. The device contains both all your personal and business data, logins and passwords.
“You use your mobile device for two factor authentication”, clearly an interesting target for someone who wants to break into the services or network you use!

Many, if not all, of attacks on mobile are actually user initiated, without them knowing: phishing!

This remains one of the toughest question in the industry: how can we counter this without channeling all traffic back to our traditional network? As one of mobco’s design principles is to see the mobile device always on an outside network, it’s impossible to inspect every bit that’s being consumed by the mobile device.

Lookout is working on the next level of pro-active mobile protection against phishing to solve this. A welcome addition to our portfolio and yet another service that will help us protect your data and better secure your business!

Another interesting fact: 3 awards were won by members of the Enterprise Mobility Expert Alliance!

 

Mobileiron Live 2018 – Berlin

Time for a short recap of Mobileiron Live 2018!

Together with a delegation of our customers and our EMEA partners we spent two days (and nights) in Berlin to learn about the latest evolution in UEM.
UEM? Well, Gartner decided it’s time to change the acronym again, moving from Mobile Device Management to Enterprise Mobility Management, we now talk about Unified Endpoint Management! (Gartner report on UEM coming out soon)

Making a summary of every presentation would be impossible, but let me highlight a few of the conference take-aways.

1. Cloud Authentication through Mobileiron Access

To better protect your cloud services such as Salesforce or Office 365, Access is providing extra security.
Access is not replacing your current IDP (in most cases ADFS), it adds an extra layer of device check (just like Sentry does for your mobile mail), and there’s more…
Authenticator is a new feature that allows you to have seamless 2-factor authentication on your mobile device to access cloud services – on any device. Logging in on your desktop can trigger a notification on your mobile to ensure it’s really you!
And than there’s SSO! Single Sign On – a much appreciated feature by every employee is now extended to cloud services on mobile devices thanks to Access!

2. Android Enterprise is here to stay

With zero-touch deployment of Android devices and better support to secure ‘any’ app for business, Android is rapidly increasing its market share in enterprises.
Google got the message and have launched several initiatives to provide enterprise features on a broad scale, not only linked to specific vendors or software.
This basically means that the guidance we provided last year on Android app development is confirmed (native AppConfig methods are to be used).
It doesn’t come as a surprise that with consumer market saturation, the enterprise business gains more attention.

3. We want apps, more apps!

With UEM we provide the business the perfect platform to rapidly deploy apps, secure content and improve productivity. But we also notice the business is not always aware of those possibilities and time to market is in many cases way too long.
Call it our ‘mission’ for the next months to bring more business ideas on the table to inspire you.
We have several off-the-shelve apps available, we can custom build apps, show partner apps and more.
In the coming weeks we’ll be announcing new possibilities to move from “data+idea” to “mobile business with app” within a day…

4. macOS in business

macOS is growing fast and increased Q4 shipping with 10%! That’s a lot of new units, and a lot of those are going to the enterprise customers.
Today we can manage a mac just like an iPad, it’s not only easy – but the good thing is that we know exactly how it needs to be done and the infrastructure to make it happen is already in place!
Yes, that includes secure connections to the back-end systems, from wherever you are.

If you would like the conference presentations on a specific topic, please let us know!
We’ll also be publishing more white papers in the coming weeks on integration with M365 and more.

See you soon,

the mobco team

How you benefit from the Enterprise Mobility Expert Alliance

On April 17th, a sunny spring Tuesday in Zürich, the member CEOs of the Enterprise Mobility Expert Alliance (EMEA) are welcomed by Philipp Klomp, CEO of Nomasis (nomasis.ch) at their headquarters. It’s time for a strategy update of the largest community of mobile IT experts in Europe!

The success of the alliance has been proven over the past years and created a clear benefit for the member companies AND their clients. “Expertise sharing was the main focus for the technical teams and resulted in a better customer service with quicker response times,” says Martin Blattmann, responsible for engineering and support at Nomasis.

Building upon the clear technical expertise benefit, the EMEA members agreed to shift gears and expand their collaboration model with a coordinated product and service offering.
“Now it’s time to take EMEA to the next level!” stated Markus Adolph, managing partner and founder of EBF (ebf.de), representing the largest member of EMEA.

The benefits for the EMEA customers:

  • the best possible customer experience with the quickest response times
  • the highest level of expertise in mobile IT
  • NEW: the broadest portfolio of products and services, on a European scale

Ronan Murphy, CEO of CWSI (cwsi.ie) “With the updated alliance strategy we have basically set the golden standard for mobile IT projects.”
The services provided by the members of the alliance are converging towards a high standard, valid across Europe. EMEA provides a quality label for expert services in mobile IT!

On top of the software that is acquired from top vendors in Enterprise Mobility, the members have all invested in niche solutions complementing the readily available software. “We fix the issues we encounter in enterprise implementations that requires specific development,” says Ulrik Van Schepdael, CEO mobco (mob.co). With the new EMEA strategy, the enterprise grade software solutions are now available to all customers across Europe.

The next step for EMEA is to put even more of a focus on the customer experience. EMEA members provide the best quality service, unequaled expertise and the broadest product portfolio to truly support mobile business transformation.

More information on the alliance can be found at emea.mobi .

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Enterprise Mobility Expert Alliance in the Press

mobco is one of the founding members of the Enterprise Mobility Expert Alliance, EMEA.

This alliance is no holding structure or commercial vehicle, it brings together mobco alike companies from across Europe to share mobile expertise!
In enterprises across Europe we often encounter similar challenges that mobile IT system integrators try solve in the best possible matter. Sharing expertise with Nomasis (Swiss), EBF (Germany) and CWSI (Ireland) has been proven to be very successful.
All mobile IT engineers share a common communication platform, product experiences and most important, product validations are happening better and faster, thanks to the EMEA.

CIO Applications magazine spotted the biggest pool of mobile IT expertise and wrote a nice article about it you can find here.