EDS Mobile vs Absolute Secure Access
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EDS Mobile
Access critical enterprise data and decision support tools on your mobile device. Navigate organizational structures, compare plant performance with KPIs, and react to live alarms. Visualize process diagrams and analyze historical operational data.
- Real-time mobile decision support
- Multi-level organizational navigation
- KPI comparison and drill-down
- Live alarm and event management
- Online process diagram visualization
- Historical data analysis and plotting
- Engineering tools for hardware-level info
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EDS Mobile Enterprise at your fingertips Supervisory access, decision support and more. EDS Mobile turns your iPad or iPhone into a real time mobile decision-support asset by bringing all critical data wherever you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to navigate through a multi-level view layout reflecting your company’s organization structure. Compare plant’s performance side-by-side on a macro level using key performance indicators (KPIs) or drill down to data as precise as the meaning of a single bit in a control system’s register. React to live alarms generated from calculations, measurements, or predictive alerts imported from the control system. Display high fidelity process diagrams representations of industrial automation systems updated online. Analyze your plant’s operational history by reviewing and plotting historical events and data. Note-the EDS Mobile App is pre-configured to connect to Emerson virtual plant for real-time and historical data. To design your own dashboards using data from your control system please visit our App Support page and request an EDS server installation. Explore your enterprise data in the way you like most: -Use a map display to locate the plant -Access assets unit by unit by tapping and scrolling screens -Use filtered lists to merge data from different locations -Display groups of measurements and the KPI you are interested in -Access detailed information and plot values at any time Compare plants’ performance online Use the plant grouping tool to define the scope of analysis Use various group filters to select interesting information Take advantage of the multi-panel scrolling to compare performance Navigate to lower level detailed views to get a better picture of the current status Don’t miss a bit in the big picture. -Take advantage of alarm propagation to get to its source -Display live alarms -Review historical alarms and events -Display live and historical plots for any value Keep current or explore trends in operation -Access live process diagrams -Use engineering tools to access hardware-level information, timestamps and statuses -Use status word explanation tooltips for multi-bit registers
Absolute Secure Access
This app provides secure and resilient network connectivity for accessing critical resources. It offers a Zero Trust approach to network access, enhancing security and user productivity. The platform includes advanced threat detection and network monitoring capabilities.
- Resilient network connectivity
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Data encryption and access controls
- Proactive network monitoring
- AI/ML-powered threat detection
- User and entity behavior analysis (UEBA)
- Configurable alerts
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The Absolute Secure Access product portfolio provides resilient network connectivity for users to securely access critical resources in the public cloud, private data centers, and on-premises. These products allow users to transition from traditional VPN to a resilient Zero Trust approach, without impairing productivity or administrative controls. Absolute VPN provides security and confidentiality for data in motion by means of encryption and access controls. It also offers benefits to the end user, such as making tunnel and network sessions resilient and optimizing streaming video and audio. Absolute ZTNA provides a software-defined perimeter via Zero Trust Network Access, creating a context-based, logical access boundary around an application or set of applications – wherever they're hosted. It shields applications from the Internet, making them invisible to unauthorized users. Access policies are enforced at the endpoint, avoiding latency and any data transgression. Absolute Insights for Network offers diagnostic and experience monitoring capabilities across endpoints and network, allowing organizations to proactively monitor, investigate, and remediate end user performance issues quickly and at scale, even on networks that are not company-owned or managed. The Secure Access SaaS platform leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to provide highly resilient, advanced threat detection combined with user and entity behavior analysis (UEBA). Secure Access analyzes each device’s activity to establish a comprehensive baseline of normal network behavior for that device and user. Regardless of whether a device has Secure Access policies that route traffic inside or outside a tunnel, the new AI-powered network security and vulnerability detection capabilities continuously monitor all devices for deviations in behavior, analyzing network traffic, user behavior, application usage and data access patterns, including the following: o Data exfiltration o Unsafe application and web browsing behavior o Malicious network port scanning o New applications generating network traffic o Denial of service attacks o Device being used at unusual times o Higher than expected network activity o New network usage patterns o Device acting as a server o Device refusing server-like requests o Device network usage is abnormal Secure Access generates configurable alerts with rich context and direct links to detailed Insights for Network dashboards, empowering security teams to prioritize and investigate potential threats. As new threats emerge and user behavior evolves, Secure Access automatically modifies its baseline for each user’s device and potential threat profiles, ensuring your defenses remain continuously updated. All clients require a licensed server to work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: EDS Mobile at 100% against Absolute Secure Access's 20%. EDS Mobile also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and device support (4 vs 2). Absolute Secure Access's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EDS Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Absolute Secure Access has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of EDS Mobile's written reviews are positive against 20% of Absolute Secure Access's.
EDS Mobile ships an update every 3 months, Absolute Secure Access every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | EDS Mobile | Absolute Secure Access |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.0 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emerson Process Management Power & Water Solutions | NetMotion Software Inc. |
Customer experience
EDS Mobile
Absolute Secure Access
In-app purchases
EDS Mobile
No in-app purchases
Absolute Secure Access
No in-app purchases
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