Today announced a preview of AppGuru, the company’s new product specifically designed to help IT professionals embrace, secure and manage the rapid influx of business and employee-introduced cloud applications in the workplace – apps that have been adopted with little or no IT involvement.
Built to help IT pros redefine their strategic role in today’s cloud-centric work environment, AppGuru’s identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) features are designed to centralise the management of users in the cloud, thereby easing the onboarding and off-boarding of employees, while providing a single tool for setting and enforcing policies for business and personal productivity cloud apps. As a result, IT pros can encourage and even empower the widespread use of such apps, while mitigating potential inherent data loss and compliance risks.
AppGuru aims to help IT pros address:
• Time consuming application management: A centralised console provides an easier way to manage multiple cloud apps than with dozens of application-specific admin tools
• Creating and managing identities in the cloud:Creating new users, importing existing users from current cloud apps, and leveraging existing Active Directory services to provision users, onboard them, and as needed, off-board employees across all cloud apps under management
• The challenge of managing cloud app licenses:A catalogue of apps simplifies subscription management in a single, unified interface
• Data privacy, compliance, and security risks: Granular policy enforcement to control app-level security and customisation settings
• The complexity of traditional policy management tools: Simple policy creation and customisation across apps to address varying requirements across the organisation
The preview of AppGuru gives IT pros the ability to manage LogMeIn’s popular collaboration apps, join.me and Cubby, as well as 3rd party cloud offerings like Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 through a single, centralised tool. LogMeIn plans to rollout support for dozens of today’s most popular cloud apps in the coming weeks and months.
Once out of beta, LogMeIn plans to offer AppGuru both as a standalone cloud app management solution, as well as an integrated component of new enterprise versions of Cubby, LogMeIn’s cloud file sync and share app, and join.me, LogMeIn’s online meeting and collaboration app.
Those interested in the AppGuru preview can request an invite via the AppGuru site. Preview versions of the Enterprise editions of Cubby and join.me are also available.