TARMAC
Manage mobility in your business

Scenarios:

TARMAC offers the secure integration of iPhones and iPads within your business IT and active directory infrastructure. iOS devices can be configured and administered over MDM.

Business Solutions

Integrate your iOS devices systematically, securely, and scaleable into the existing IT structure.

iPhones and iPads are profitable and indispensable tools for business worldwide. They are the modern replacements for BlackBerry devices for managers, as well as company employees. Since 2007, Apple has continuously reached its goal, implementing mobile devices into the business sector. With superior Mobile Device Management, you can easily reach the next level.

TARMAC Features

• BYOD Bring Your Own Device
• MDM Mobile Device Management
• Inventory Management

Clients

 

Business on the road

Highways, hotels, airports – your employees are hard at work, round the clock, and on the go. These days, iPhones and iPads account for the majority of the road-rugged, office-to-go devices.

Keep your data exchanges and integration smooth and secure. When it comes to portable, interactive, presentations devices, the iPad is simply unbeatable. Employees carry; databases, catalogs, interactive files, and slideshows with them around the world and remain in touch with the home company making sure to keep everything up-to-date.

Via Mobile Device Management, the IT headquarters can guarantee smooth integration, secure individual data transfers, and automatic profile updates.

If an iPad is left behind, TARMAC springs into action, protecting your confidential data with a secure password. In the case of a lost iPad, within seconds, you can completely and confidently delete everything on the device from a distance.

TARMAC Features

• MDM Mobile Device Management
• App roll-out via App Katalog
• Briefing Center

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Data Security

Protect yourself and your company data. Communication with mobile devices in the business realm is tricky since important data can fall into the wrong hands. iPhones are often forgotten in taxis, at airport security checks, or in hotel rooms.

With iOS, Apple already offers a high level of security. Unfortunately, in many branches such as banks, insurance, or in public authorities, this is not enough. Confidential data should absolutely never fall into the wrong hands. This is also true for for innovative mid-size enterprises as well as the highly competitive design sectors whose capital greatly depends on the confidentiality of intellectual property.

There are always the worst-case-scenarios. where an iPhone is forgotten in a taxi, at the airport, or in a hotel. What then?

An MDM solution such as TARMAC protects! Make certain that the “Data-Protection” hardware encryption of your iPhones and iPads is activated. Increase the security of the devices with either a longer or an alphanumeric password.

In the case of a lost iPhone or iPad, within seconds, you can completely delete everything on the device from a distance.

TARMAC Features

• MDM Mobile Device Management
• Certificate Management
• Mobile Device Security

Clients

Pool Devices

Successfully create and manage a device pool with hundreds of iOS devices. Even the world of museums has become interactive. iPads have taken over as multimedia guides for exhibits.

Even the world of museums has become interactive. iPads have taken over as multimedia guides for exhibits, allowing visitors to experience them with all of their senses. Successfully create and manage a device pool with hundreds of iOS devices. The visitors won’t even notice that the IT , thanks to MDM, is secure and up-to-date.

With Kiosk Mode and your own app set-up, iPads are easy to coordinate into functional pool devices to fit your needs. Your visitors won’t even notice that the IT , thanks to MDM, has everything under control, updating the Tourguide app, resets demo content, or helping with updating the network setup and configuration.

TARMAC Features

• MDM Mobile Device Management
• Briefing Center for Apps & Content
• Inventory Management

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Educational & Public Authorities

Create a strong backbone for intelligent IT. iPads have become irreplaceable tools for higher learning. Also in the public service sector and government offices, iOS platforms are well received. 

With the increase in administrative tasks, public authorities can't get around the fact that mobile devices could help. Universally, iOS devices increase workflow productivity. They support the data exchange for administrative offices, institutions, or larger associations.

Decision-makers are often on the go and must have constant, secure access to internal data for communication and negotiations. Nobody wants to do without the fully developed, reliable and compelling user concept of mobile end devices, such as iPhones. Herein, strict safety regulations belong to the daily agenda. With certificate based authentication, you can be certain that only authorized personnel have access to your infrastructure and you can use security policies to control where data is allowed to be saved.

Coordinate iPads as pool or individual edu devices for students. Retain the perfect overview of the inventory: determine which devices may currently be used and which settings, apps, and configurations are allowed.

TARMAC Features

• BYOD Bring Your Own Device
• Mobile Device Security
• Briefing Center für Apps & Content

Clients

Healthcare Sectors

The basis of the iOS devices must also be healthy and strong. Use TARMAC!

iOS devices help ease workflow in the healthcare sector. iPads join doctors for their rounds and improve patient care. Preexisting health conditions and concerns are accessible at anytime. Of course, these databases are extremely confidential and in emergencies, need to be able to be deleted from a distance. No problem with TARMAC!

TARMAC Features

• MDM Mobile Device Management
• Briefing Center for Apps & Content
• Mobile Device Security

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Products:

Mobile Productivity Management

TARMAC 2 lays the groundwork for an entirely new field in the area of MDM – Mobile Productivity Management (MPM). With MPM, TOWER ONE has shifted focus to productivity and collaborative working in companies.

The new Briefing Center app enables companies to work seamlessly and securely with iPhones and iPads: Wi-Fi, mail, calendar, VPN, and more, are automatically configured personally for every employee.

TARMAC 2

Productivity, performance, and security: the server solution TARMAC 2, has been newly developed from the ground up. The Briefing Center app increases daily business productivity as a native companion app for iPad, iPhone, and iPad touch. With MPM, TOWER ONE has a stronger focus on mobile business.

Mobile Productivity Management

With TARMAC, TOWER ONE has created the foundation for safety related management of iOS devices in businesses. With MPM, TOWER ONE TOWER ONE has shifted focus to productivity and collaborative working in companies. The starting point is the release TARMAC 2 and the Business app Briefing Center.

Briefing Center is an entry level product for TOWER ONE in the area of mobile productivity. Briefing Center increases the usability of TARMAC and delivers crucial advantages for the administrators as well as the end-users of the iOS devices.

Distribute iOS business devices

Bring your own device (BYOD)

Business resources need to be available on iPads and iPhones in order for them to successfully be integrated into your business. With the MDM solution from TOWER ONE, you can automatically and securely configure email, VPN, and work calendars, on every integrated device.

These security measures can also be implemented on personal devices as well. Your employees can also have secure access to their business email, calendar, and VPN using their own personal iPhones. For example, it can be set-up that private devices can only gain access to business information via VPN and a secure password. With TARMAC, you can safely implement BYOD into your business, because you define the level of security.

Scope of functions:

• Email (IMAP, Pop)
• Exchange server
• VPN (SSL, PPTP, L2TP)
• WLAN Configuration
• Certificate based WLAN authentication
• LDAP Directory Information
• Calendar server (CalDAV, CardDAV)

TARMAC - Mobile Device Management for iPhones & iPads

TARMAC acts as a secure, dependable middleware for your company IT between directory services and your employees’ iPhones,iPads, and integrated Apple iOS devices. The intuitive interface and efficient workflow spare extra IT-responsibilities, saving you and your employees time and costs.

In developing TARMAC, we always had one idea in mind: to set up an iPhone with TARMAC should be as simple as using the iPhone itself. A few simple steps are all that stands in the way of rapid iPhone roll-out.

Why iOS?

With hundreds of mobile telephones and tablet devices, it is practically impossible to support, test, and update each device regularly. There are of course many different operating systems. However, in our opinion, the majority of them are not suitable for business use.

The recent security gap with Android is just one of many such instances. The biggest misconceptions is the belief that one solution can equally support all operating systems: iOS, Android, RIM, Windows Mobile, Symbian – just to name a few. Each has its own unique MDM API and some are more complex, more limited, or even more prone to malfunction than others.

We love Apple and we love iPhones and iPads! Our iOS centric approach allows us to focus research and development on a single platform enabling a more refined device management solution. The result: TARMAC. Probably the best solution to manage iOS devices.

TARMAC Configuration Example

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

With a TOWER ONE MDM-solution, you can effectively distribute iOS devices in your business. One major advantage is the possibility to personalize specific access for certain employees, using the most stringent security standards to protect your data.

Your employees can independently sign-in to the MDM server where they’ll automatically get specific configuration, access rights, and policies.

With TOWER ONE Mobile Device Management, changes to your IT infrastructure or updated policies are immediately ready for distribution. Just Push the newest configurations and specific preferences on the iPhone and iPad, and the corresponding changes will automatically be updated in the background. This seamless updating allows for continued productivity without interruption.

 Typical MDM uses:

• Personalize and administer iOS devices for employees
• Administer iOS devices over-the-air
• Rollout preferences, policies and apps over-the-air
• Manage all iPhone and iPads with a clear overview
• Limit access by LDAP Groups
• Ongoing management of iOS devices

Signing devices in to an MDM Server

You’ll need an MDM profile before iPads and iPhones can be administered via MDM. This is initially installed on the relevant devices upon delivery of TARMAC. In order to be able to use Push, it is a prerequisite that you have a membership in the iOS Developer Enterprise Program.

MDM Profile Configuration

Specific and relevant preferences can be determined for each device. Along side the personalized user setup, are password guidelines, access to camera functions or external services such as, YouTube, the iPod, or the App Store.

Updates via Push

MDM has the distinct advantage that profile updates and preferences can be “Pushed” from the TARMAC interface onto the background of the iPad and iPhone. The users needn’t do anything more. Push is available for the following information:

• Preferences
• Profile
• Changing Profile
• Web links
• Security Preferences

Delete devices from a distance

It happens all too often that a mobile device is left behind: in a taxi, at a security check in the airport, or in a hotel room. MDM allows TARMAC to delete any critical data via an internet connection. That way, you can be sure that none of your confidential information lands in the wrong hands.

Inventory Management

With the expanded functions offered by TARMAC, you’ll also benefit when administering Apple mobile devices. You can save all parameters and information from each individual mobile device into the integrated Inventory Management.

With Inventory Management from TARMAC, you have a clear overview of your IT-landscape, offering immediate access, information, and the possibility to update with just the click of a button. TARMAC subsumes the meta data from all devices, as is expected of a quality management tool.

Mobile Device Security (MDS)

As soon as access to critical information is available with an iPhone or iPad, it is of utmost importance that this data is protected. The multi-level security concept from TOWER ONE’s MDM Solution TARMAC, completely protects your infrastructure and business data . An individual encryption certificate is created for each device accessing the TARMAC server. With this SCEP procedure, it is guaranteed that commands and preferences may only be read by the specific end device. The result: absolute security for your data.

Signing into the system is completed through an Active Directory authentication. It is then determined through the Active Directory, which service and apps the user may access.

The TOWER ONE MDM solution also supports certificate based WLAN and exchange authentication. Therefor, every employee can access the network and be signed into the server with their own personal certificate.

Security thanks to Mobile Device Management

With TARMAC you can...

• Protect devices from a distance
• Reset passwords
• Lock or delete devices remotely (complete wipe/Enterprise wipe)
• Update, administer, or delete your profile in the background
• Automatically update security preferences
• Perform Inventory Management

Advantages

Securely integrate Apple mobile devices
TARMAC's advanced certificate-based security system ensures the security and integrity of your data while enrolling and managing devices.

Carry out all operations securely
With TARMAC no data will leave your internal infrastructure. Through centralized provisioning, relevant security changes can be implemented on-demand.

Maintain a clear overview of all data and profiles
Because TARMAC does not require any software on your devices you always have full control of your data.

Sustainable, long-term investment thanks to scaleability
TARMAC is completely scalable. Administrators can add new users directly to their company's existing Directory Service, because TARMAC is linked, it has immediate access to pull the needed information.

iOS queries & monitoring
TARMAC supports the iOS MDM queries like mobile provider, network provider, battery level and many more. Furthermore you have full control and a complete overview of settings, profiles, certificates, and Apps.

Distribute Apps

Mobile App Management (MAM)

One of the most important arguments for using the iOS platform is the incredible volume of available apps. However, a comprehensive app-management strategy is of utmost importance to ensure that employees can work productively with their iPhones and iPads. The TOWER ONE Mobile App Management solution supports an effective app distribution and administration. There are basically two different kinds of apps which have to be managed. The public App Store apps and the “in-house apps”, which are internal business based apps for employees. With the TARMAC App Catalog, App Store apps can be recommended and linked for download. This alleviates the need for distribution support and makes it easier to work with new iOS devices.

Internal apps can also be distributed with TARMAC: just upload the app data onto the server and it is ready for distribution through the App Catalog or MDM. Thanks to the support for Apple’s Enterprise Program, it is not necessary to assign internal apps to particular devices - they can be installed on all internal business devices.

Apps can also be pushed automatically after signing into the server, or later by the administrator. An app can also be removed just as quickly.

App Management & In-house Apps

Install the App Store apps and in-house apps with TARMAC by sending an invitation to the end-user. Apps that are installed can also be removed (iOS 5.1 and up) and automatically deleted when the user’s MDM profile has been erased. With the TARMAC App Catalog, you can distribute internal apps to employees’ iPhones and iPads company-wide. Administrators only have to provide the apps in the TARMAC App Catalog. Authorized users from within a defined group, have access to specific apps. From the personalized TARMAC Admin-interface, you can distribute single or multiple apps, include new versions, or delete apps.

Briefing Center

Together with TARMAC 2, the Briefing Center app enables companies to work seamlessly and securely with iPhones and iPads: Wi-Fi, mail, calendar, VPN, and more, are automatically configured personally for every employee. The integrated App Catalog makes it easy to install internal company apps as well as public apps from the App Store.

Protection: Briefing Center protects your infrastructure with integrated jailbreak recognition. Thanks to the on-going monitoring, new jailbreaks are immediately identified and reported.

Customization: The Briefing Center app can be adapted perfectly to match your CI and internal processes: If desired, a company logo can also be uploaded into the app and seen by all users. Administrators can adjust help-texts and links within the app, in order to to offer the users specific assistance and support tools.

Briefing Center Features

• Native App Catalog
• Sort by app categories
• App descriptions
• In-app enrollment
• Jailbreak detection
• Integration of disclaimers for installation
• Individual customization of your own CI
• Servers can be found via email addresses

System Requirements:

Server Hardware

• min. 4 GB RAM
• min. 2 x 2 GHz 64-Bit processor
• min. 40 GB free hard drive
• Java SE 7 JDK 64-Bit

Operating System

• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Mac OS X 10.9 ,10.10 and 10.11 El Capitan
• Ubuntu Linux Server 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS (64 Bit)

Browser

• Firefox 20 or later Google Chrome (latest version) Safari 5.0 or later

Directory Service

• Active Directory Domain and Forests Active Directory Global Catalog Open Directory MySQL Database

Networking Requirements

• Incoming TCP Ports
  • 80 or 443: TARMAC web UI and MDM Enrollment
• Outgoing TCP Ports
  • 2195, gateway.push.apple.com : Apple Push Noti fi cation Service
  • 80 und 443, itunes.apple.com: App Store Apps and VPP
• other Network Connections
  • 5223: to iOS devices, required for Apple Push noti fi cations for Apps
  • 2196: Apple Push Notification Service Response

Note : Other networking con figurations (e.g. reverse proxy setups) are supported

Documentation:

Download the TARMAC 2 Information Sheet (.PDF)

Download the TARMAC Product Catalog (.PDF)

Download the TARMAC 2 System Requirements (.PDF)