IBM WebSphere Everyplace Access V5 Handbook for Developers and Administrators Volume IV: Advanced Topics

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9.1 WebSphere Everyplace Access integration

Everyplace Connection Manager is commonly found in enterprises with a

significant number of mobile users. WebSphere Everyplace Access is similarly

targeted at mobile users. Its themes, skins, and transcoding technology generate

Web content optimized for a wide variety of devices including Mobile Phones,

PDAs, Laptops, and Desktop Systems. Indeed, IBM has designed WebSphere

Everyplace Access and Everyplace Connection Manager to work together.

WebSphere Everyplace Access is intended to extend corporate applications,

e-mail, and PIM data to mobile users. Given the sensitive nature of such data,

many enterprises choose to locate WebSphere Everyplace Access servers on

their intranets. A Everyplace Connection Manager server is then used to allow

mobile users; inside, and outside of the corporation, a secure and optimized

access to the WebSphere Everyplace Access servers.

Everyplace Connection Manager provides WebSphere Everyplace Access users

two ways to securely access their WebSphere Everyplace Access servers:

򐂰 Using portal access through a Web browser, Everyplace Connection

Manager provides secure HTTP access.

򐂰 Using the Mobility Client, Everyplace Connection Manager provides full

access to the WebSphere Everyplace Access server (portal, synchronizations

services, device management, alerts, and so forth).

Note: Either method improves security by providing robust authentication,

authorization, and confidentiality (by means of encryption).