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WCF Safety & Health: Working to Keep You Safe!
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AASCIF Safety & Health Workshop
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WCF Safety & Health: Working to Keep You Safe!
Overview
• Buy vs Build in House• WCF Mobile Tech Initiative: “Security vs Productivity”
• SUMS: “Safety Underwriting Management System”
• VMWare Horizon View for iPad/iPhone• Good Apps for iPad/iPhone
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Buy vs Build in House
• WCF chose to “build” or “tweak” to allow access to existing programs/systems through iPad
– Lower Cost
– Smaller Learning Curve
– Data Security
– Multiple ways to access data needed (email and files)
WCF Safety & Health: Working to Keep You Safe!
The Challenge: Security vs Productivity
• The concern of WCF IT: Insecure data on a mobile device.
• The solutions:
– Contain data in secure environment on mobile device (Good Apps)
– Provide secure access to WCF systems by multi‐factor authentication (VMware Horizon View and Microsoft Multi‐factor Authentication)
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SUMS: “Safety/Underwriting Management System”
• Lotus Notes App designed and maintained in house
• Advantages: App is constantly evolving to meet needs/wants – cutting edge stuff can be added as we go. (Examples: WCF ErgoTools, Safety Culture Assessment Online, S&H Injury Analysis, Severe Injury/Fatality Potential Analysis, etc.)
• Disadvantages: Lotus Notes – Lifespan?
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VMWare Horizon View• Virtual Windows 7 (soon to be Windows 10) Desktop
• Provides secure connection and access to WCF systems and programs
• Advantages: Security and ability to access existing systems and programs.
• Disadvantage: unavailable where cell coverage is not available, multifactor authentication makes it less convenient.
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VMware Horizon View – Virtual Desktop
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Good Apps
• Good– Secure – data on device is within the Good “container”
– Immediate access to files, email, etc.
– Ability to edit and save office documents and view most files.
• Not so Good– Office apps available for Good are not as “good” as Keynote, Numbers, Pages.
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Email Files Office
Lotus Notes
Sametime
Note Taking
Pdf editing
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Good Email
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Good Share (files)
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Quick Edit
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Observations
• Some use the iPad to be more productive – some don’t
• Good apps are Good and Bad!
• This approach skipped development time, but still required setup and testing by IT and a select number of field consultants and managers
• Learning curve for iPad and Good Apps, but not so much for virtual desktop.
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We have been using the iPads since April 2014
Our IT is testing the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and is planning to upgrade laptops to Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10!
We’ll see how that goes!
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Thank you!