Login Assist – Open Mobile for Windows client

Monday, November 14th, 2011 Chris Witeck, Director Product Marketing

This is our third blog post highlighting the Open Mobile client v2.0 for Windows. Last week we provided an overview of the new Endpoint Integrity Verification feature, and the previous entry focused on a high level overview of the Open Mobile client v2.0 for Windows release. This week we are going to take a closer look at the brand new Login Assist capability introduced with this release.

Login Assist expedites the login process for users when accessing commonly visited cloud based applications/Web sites by allowing the Open Mobile client to automatically present the user’s login credentials to the application’s login page. The credentials can be the user’s corporate credentials or can be credentials that are unique to each application. Meaning I can log in to Salesforce.com and have my corporate credentials presented (assuming Salesforce.com has been set up to accept corporate credentials) and then log into a corporate travel site and have the Open Mobile client present a unique username and password. This works by either selecting an application from the quick launch bar or accessing the application/Web site directly as long as Open Mobile is running in the background.

Now this just doesn’t happen magically. Open Mobile administrators will need to set up each Web site or application that they want Login Assist enabled for. iPass has provided some base templates to use when setting up Login Assist for common applications, and administrators can add their own applications. As long as the site/application uses some form of an HTML based login page, Login Assist should work. The first time the user logs into the web site or application, they will be prompted to enter their user name and password. On subsequent visits, they will be automatically logged in.

Want to learn more? Feel free to check out the video below which provides a short demo of Login Assist in action.