Maximize Your Windows 7 Investment with Reflection 2011

If you’ve migrated to the Microsoft Windows 7 platform but are still using an outdated terminal emulator, you won’t be able to take full advantage of your Windows 7 investment. Windows 7 offers a number of benefits, including a stable and secure operating system, and a sleek interface that improves the user experience. But a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

The Attachmate® Reflection® 2011 product line offers new, native .NET terminal emulation and PC X server products that are optimized for Windows 7. Reflection 2011 leverages the best features of Windows 7 to make often-cryptic host applications easier to use—without requiring any changes on the host side. This solution brief describes some of the ways that Reflection 2011 stays in step with Windows 7 to deliver the time-saving flexibility you need, and the robust security you can’t do without.

Improve User Productivity Many legacy host applications are cryptic, difficult to use, and expensive to maintain. But with Reflection 2011, you can modernize host applications that haven’t been updated in years, without ever touching those applications. Through

integration with Windows 7 and Office 2010, Reflection leverages key productivity features that make your host applications work like your other desktop-based office applications—helping users to work faster and smarter.

With productivity features like the ones listed below, users can save valuable keystrokes, and organizations can save valuable time and resources.

Enhance the User ExperienceReflection 2011 gives users the ability to choose between a familiar Classic-mode toolbar, with drop-down menus, and the modern Ribbon interface. In addition, the Reflection Workspace allows users to organize all host and web sessions via tabs, similar to a contemporary web browser.

Allow Faster and Easier Data AccessIf your organization is like most, your employees are using more applications at the desktop than ever before. With Reflection 2011, users can employ the multiple document interface (MDI) mode to view all application windows within the Reflection Workspace at the same time. This enables users to quickly view and exchange data between multiple host applications.

With the Reflection Screen History feature, users can immediately navigate to prior host screens to access data. For example, users who work in a call center can quickly retrieve customer contact information by clicking on the prior host screen instead of requesting that information from the customer again.

Make Search More Powerful Product information is often located in silos—such as host screens, in Help content, in configuration panels, or on the Internet—that can be time-consuming to search through. Reflection 2011 enables users to quickly find data wherever it resides, without leaving the Reflection workspace.

Maximize Your Windows 7 Investment with Reflection 2011

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Users can leverage the Ribbon UI, Office integration, and advanced productivity features for a modern and efficient user experience.

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Allow Smarter Data Entry Reflection users can save thousands of keystrokes every day, and ensure better data accuracy, with features like Auto Expand, Auto Correct, Auto Complete, and Spell Check. For example, Auto Expand allows users to save time during data entry by converting acronyms to commonly used words or phrases.

Automate TasksAn easy-to-use macro-recording facility allows Reflection users to automate repetitive tasks without programming skills. Power users can enhance recorded macros with the fully integrated and powerful Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) editor. Further, VBA support enables data exchange between host and desktop applications.

Meet the Latest Security Requirements Enterprises are rapidly moving to Windows 7 because it offers revolutionary advances in security. But unless your terminal emulator is in synch with these security capabilities, you won’t gain as much benefit from them. With Reflection 2011, you get the most secure terminal emulation product available, so that you can meet important internal and external security requirements.

Meet External Security RequirementsReflection is certified for the U.S. Department of Defense Public Key Infrastructure (DoD PKI), and offers strong SSL/TLS and SSH encryption validated for the U.S. government’s FIPS 140-2 standard. Reflection also helps you comply with PCI DSS requirements and Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and Basel III mandates.

Restrict User AccessReflection leverages the Microsoft User Account Control (UAC) security platform for limiting access to features that only an administrator should be allowed to modify. With UAC, users can see product functionality, but need machine administrator credentials in order to modify specific configuration options.

Contain Macro SprawlUsers gain many benefits from the ability to record macros, including time savings. However, too many macros can be a security risk if IT administrators don’t know where they are, what they do, or whether they’re trustworthy.

The Trusted Locations feature in Reflection 2011 enables administrators to control macro sprawl by pre-defining desktop or network locations from which Reflection settings files can be run.

Employ the Trusted Locations feature to centralize control of user macros, eliminating most security problems posed by macro sprawl.

With Privacy Filters, you can protect just about any type of sensitive data that is displayed on IBM host screens.

Maximize Your Windows 7 Investment with Reflection 2011

Protect Sensitive Data The Privacy Filters feature in Reflection 2011 provides a way to mask sensitive data such as social security and credit card numbers within host applications and at all Office integration points, like the Clipboard.

With Privacy Filters enabled, sensitive data will be hidden when users employ features such as Screen History, Recent Typing, Auto Complete, Print Screen, and Cut/Copy/Paste. And if your users routinely incorporate host screen data into emails, you can prevent sensitive data, like social security numbers, from being included.

Enhance Your Administrative Control Administrators today are required to do much more with much less. Since most IT departments are managing hundreds or even thousands of applications across the enterprise, applications must be designed to be easy to manage. Reflection 2011 includes a number of features designed specifically for controlling IT complexity. With Reflection 2011, you can:

Perform Easier Installs Reflection 2011 installs using the industry standard Microsoft Installer (MSI) technology, and an MSI editing tool enables the IT administrator to completely customize Reflection prior to deployment.

Maintain Centralized Control Is one of your primary challenges maintaining centralized control of desktop applications? Reflection 2011 is integrated with the optional Reflection Administrator, a powerful tool for centralizing control of user custom configurations. Reflection Administrator enables you to customize Reflection sessions, macros, and other user settings, and then deploy them to users via a simple web link in a browser.

Leverage Virtualization TechnologiesVirtualization technologies enable organizations to more effectively leverage their computing resources. Reflection 2011 is optimized for the most popular virtualization platforms from vendors like VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix. In fact, Reflection 2011 recently earned both the VMware Ready and Citrix Ready logos. In addition, Attachmate performs internal testing with the most common enterprise virtualization solutions, publishes how-to articles online describing best practices, and maintains partnerships with virtualization vendors. This means that when our customers roll out Reflection 2011 using virtualization technology, the experience is smooth for administrators and users.

Get the Most Out of Your Windows 7 Investment with Reflection 2011Recent studies indicate that it costs much more to maintain old, unsupported software platforms than it does to upgrade to better, faster, more secure products. With its many new advances, Windows 7 delivers improved end-user productivity, security, and administrative control. And Reflection 2011 allows you to maximize that investment with capabilities that harmonize with Windows 7.

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