Customizing and Branding Ericom Connect AccessPortal interfaces

Custom branding for Ericom Connect AccessPortal interface

Ericom Connect is another powerful remote application and desktop access solution. The flexible scalability of Ericom Connect makes it an ideal solution for SMBs to larger enterprises across all industries. Ericom Connect is a hyper–scalable connection broker, providing secure, managed access to desktops, applications, and data – from any device, anywhere. Ericom Connect empowers by combining the benefits of advanced Grid technology and robust connection brokering, Connect offers high availability, super-scalability and enhanced performance.

Ericom Connect comes with a Web based portal called AccessPortal which presents all Desktops and Applications for users at one place. Web Portal also includes the AccessNow interface which is pure HTML5 client less access to published Desktops. Ericom Connect also comes with a web based administration tool where system administrators can not only publish the resources but analyze high level, immediate view of system health. It is really awesome that installation of Ericom Connect is very easy as like their earlier product called PowerTerm WebConnect.

Dart Innovations can offer full branding over the Ericom Connect AccessPortal web interface and Ericom AccessNow Interface. We can place your web identities on both logon and after logon pages. Full design customization is possible without any limitation. We can also customize Ericom Connect’s administration portal if needed. The Ericom Connect AccessPortal can also enhanced with the Custom Features such as Announcements, links, Downloads and lot more to improve the UX of your portal.

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Click here if you would like to read more about Ericom AccessNow Interface. As discussed above, we can offer advanced customization by placing some useful custom features on your Connect Application Portal interface.

Here are some useful custom features we can offer with Ericom Connect Application Portal

Announcements

This feature lets you post all your important messages, news and announcements on both login and after login pages of your Custom Ericom Connect AccessPortal interface. You can manage these short messages from the IAdmin backend using options like post, edit, delete, activate and deactivate. It is possible that you can post announcements on AD group based or OU based.

Web Links

This utility allows you to present your important links, resources on both login and after login pages of your Custom Ericom Connect AccessPortal interface. The IAdmin interface allows you to post, edit, delete, activate and deactivate the links. This can be called as company links, web links, bookmarks or useful resources. This can be managed on group or OU based.

Forgot Password for users

This option is placed on your Custom Ericom Connect AccessPortal login page which helps user to reset password and recover their password by self when they have forgot their original password. It works in the similar fashion of how most Forgot Password reset flow works in web.

Forgot Username

Similar to Forgot Password this option helps to recover the username itself for users who forgot their username of Ericom Connect /Active directory. This can be validated against their AD email address or phone number. User receives their username in email on completion of successful validation.

Password Reset - Admin

This is an IAdmin backend module which allows administrator to reset a user password and send the new password via email. The module clearly validates against your AD password policy and allows you reset the password of a user in a single step. The feature saves lot time by avoiding the need of logging into Active Directory system.

Create Active Directory users - Admin

This is an IAdmin module that lets your administrators to create your active directory users from the web interface itself. You can create users with all user information such as company, email, title, phone and others. You can assign them to specific OU and groups as well. Once created user will be receiving an email with username and randomly generated password.

Social widgets integration

You can integrate your Twitter feed or Facebook widget into your RD Web page. The widget settings can be managed via IAdmin backend.

RSS widget

The tiny widget allows you to show a RSS news feed on your Custom Ericom Connect AccessPortal login page and/or after login page. The RSS feed URL can be simply managed from the IAdmin backend module.

Active Directory information

An information utility that displays the logged in user information pulled from Active Directory. Last logged in time, Email id, Phone, Title, Department and Company is some useful information to display on the page. You can also display any other user information from Active Directory.

OWA Integration

This enabled single sign on facility to login to OWA (Email) from your Custom Ericom Connect AccessPortal interface. User doesn’t need to sign in again at OWA login when they are already signed in at Custom Ericom Connect AccessPortal. We can also integrate SSO for any other email system.

Documents

Administrators can upload the documents on AD group based which will be available to users for download or read. It can be PDF, MS Word, text files or anything else. Admin can add, edit, delete and sort the documents order at any time. This useful feature lets you share your documents like training materials, user guides, reports, company handbooks or other manuals among your users in a group based manner.

Downloads

The feature allows you to provide dowloadable tools inside the Ericom Connect AccessPortal interface. That may be corporate tools, utilities, software patches or desktop clients. You can upload any format of applications, executable files, compressed zip files or any other formats from the IAdmin module and distribute them to your uses in a group based manner.

Videos Module

You can place number of videos into the Custom Ericom Connect AccessPortal and show them on AD user/group based. It is very useful when you want to place your training videos or other information videos to your staffs/users. You can integrate youtube, vimeo or other video streaming platforms and all of them can be managed from the IAdmin backend using the options such as Add, Edit, Delete and Sort.

Login Widget

Your Ericom Connect AccessPortal interface page can be bundled as a tiny widget which you can integrate on your website or in other web apps. The widget functions the same as how Custom Ericom Connect AccessPortal login functions but with more simplified look to implement easily into a web page.

Other Widgets

These are some widgets we can integrate on your login and/or after login pages of your Custom Ericom Connect AccessPortal. These are just few widgets as example but you can come up with your own options to make your Parallels RAS HTML5 gateway interface richer look.

IAdmin (Interface Admin Management Module)

IAdmin is a free module ships with your custom interface package which runs as a separate website. It helps you to manage all your custom features. Example, you can add, edit, delete and sort your announcements or web links using this module. The features like Password Reset By Admin, Create AD Users are IAdmin specific modules. You can also manage email templates that sent during the password reset or user creation from the IAdmin mdoule. We can also add any additional CMS modules such as Manage logos, Manage Promo Banners, or Manage Branding Elements (that let’s you manage your custom logo, background image) or anything you need upon your specific request. The IAdmin has an option called Web Encrypt/Decrypt which provides additional security by allowing you to encrypt your SQL/LDAP connection strings in your web config file.

These are not only the features we can offer where we are interested to hear your new ideas and make them work for you as a custom feature.