When smartphones appeared, their purpose was to facilitate Internet connection, follow-up business, e-mail, communicate with members of your company and other tasks, so the BlackBerry dominated this market in the past, then came Apple - and then Google - and introduced smartphones in a way that made it spread and become a gaming, entertainment and communication platform In social, photography and other sites. But Apple has not forgotten the business side, and in iOS 7 it has provided a number of advantages that make Apple devices the best for companies.

We often hear that the Pentagon decided to use Apple devices, a ministry, an institution, and that Turkey is planning to buy several million iPads, and other news that makes the average user wonder why Apple? The answer is that it provides advanced services for companies that enable them to provide the best performance and optimal control over the company's devices, and we mention some recent additions coming to companies in iOS 7.

 Control open data:

You can protect your organization's data by controlling which accounts and apps are used to open documents and attachments. The IT administrator can control the list of applications that share data, and this matter ensures that the company's data is safe and is not shared or used in areas other than those decided by the company.

VPN for every app

Now applications can automatically connect to the VPN when opened, and any application that connects to the network can be chosen by the VPN and any application that connects normally, and this enables the IT administrator to control the use of the Internet within the company and also monitor the data that the company’s employees send and also know if Company employees have opened any personal websites.

Software Store Agreement:

Apple has developed a system of purchasing applications in large quantities for companies, giving companies the ability to allocate an application to one of its customers while retaining its ownership. Companies can purchase licenses for applications from the VPP website and also use its MDM which enables it to customize applications for its employees. Each employee will be able to use his Apple account - personal - and he will find the application that the company will assign to appear in his account.

Conclusion: A company can contract to purchase a large number of a specific application, and then the company can choose which of its employees gets this application, and this employee will find the application in his previous purchases as if he bought it himself and the company did not allocate it to them.

Mail improvements:

A completely new design for the Mail application and includes a lot of gestures, which makes using the Mail application easier than before, new features such as the ability to create smart lists and folders, in addition to new capabilities in the PDF such as viewing notes. With Microsoft Exchange 2010, you can sync your notes with Outlook on your Mac and Windows.

New MDM options:

MDM protocol, which enables company owners and IT employees to monitor and limit the use of company devices, now in iOS 7, many commands and settings have been added that give you more control over devices such as wireless control of applications, fonts, accessibility features, wireless printing and AirPlay.

Simplify activation and MDM:

Company-owned devices can be registered automatically in MDM, and this enables the IT administrator to skip the basic settings steps while setting the devices and also enables him to prepare them to work on the company’s system faster than before, and it also enables IT to supervise the devices wirelessly (OTA).

Single login for companies:

A new feature is the ability to log in once into corporate accounts with the iOS 7 system, which is what Apple called the SSO name. After the employee logs into the account, he can download applications without asking him for passwords.

Third-party data protection:

Using advanced methods to create strong and strong passwords in order to protect data, and this frees the mind of an IT official in the company from securing company data when dealing with any applications. Also, in iOS 7, all third-party applications - any company you deal with - will be locked and automatically encrypted, and thus your information in the store will be protected by the user's password, which he must enter after every reboot.

The second generation of "cache" supports iOS 7:

By caching names and applications on the Mac that is running Mavericks 10.9 Server, the second generation of cache will provide great speed in downloading, connecting and updating the company's applications, whether from the software store, books, or iTunes.

Do you use Apple devices in your company? What do you think of the new additions in the business sector?

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