It was a web app. With a laptop, their compliance requirements required hibernation. So the workflow was:<p>- Pre-boot authentication.
- Windows sign-in
- VPN two-factor sign-in
- Web Portal access
- Find your thing.<p>Best case, that process took 7-9 minutes, at a customer site using guest wifi or air-card in an office building, with a potentially angry customer. Not fun. The typical user does that 5-10 times a day, and in many cases the workers were actually preparing paper reports on their own time to function.<p>Enter iPad. Access was a snap, and it performed better with marginal cellular connections. Accessing the web portal did still require a two-factor challenge, but that two factor was effective for ALL of their internal access. We used a web browser that gave them a native iPad browsing experience (vs. an SSL-VPN&#x27;d IE) and access to several different systems via app.