As businesses continue to see the benefits that mobile device management services bring to profit margins and productivity levels, questions over security still remain. What should your company be looking for when shopping around for services that can help keep sensitive data safe? Security Roles The levels at which a business uses its […]
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We’ve helped over 100 companies with MDM selection and implementation, and here are the most common challenges that we’ve seen. Policies that don’t balance all stakeholder needs Security is important to the company, but so is user experience. Is it possible to be too secure? The answer is yes, if you don’t take into consideration […]
With a ton of telecommunications services out on the market, and with each offering its own software model, just where do businesses searching for mobile solutions start? Knowing what you need and what you don’t from mobile device management software can be a tough challenge indeed. Stick with these main features however and you can […]
“The trend toward employee-owned devices isn’t saving IBM any money, says Jeanette Horan, who is IBM’s chief information officer and oversees all the company’s internal use of IT. Instead, she says, it has created new challenges for her department of 5,000 people, because employees’ devices are full of software that IBM doesn’t control.” http://www.technologyreview.com/business/40324/?p1=BI IBM […]
Article published in CIO Update: Businesses of all shapes and sizes are struggling with the bring your own device (BYOD) phenomena. On one hand, BYOD is a boon. Employees get the devices they like. Often they pay for them out of their own pockets, and productivity goes up. On the other hand, support costs can […]
Originally published at No Jitter. By Robert Lee Harris I spent a lot of last summer working with a large enterprise IT department transition from company-owned Blackberries to employee-owned devices. Here’s what I took away from the experience. This was a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) project much like many companies are now considering. Being involved in […]
There’s a lot of buzz around BYOD in an increasingly mobile workforce, but little consensus around rules and guidelines to be incorporated in a policy. Whether you’ve just started planning your BYOD policy, or have already implemented one, we’d love to hear about your thoughts and experiences. You can learn more about what other companies […]
Philippe Winthrop wrote an article, and proposed the term COPE (yes, another acronym) to describe another way to manage consumerization of IT: Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled. “The IT department would provide you ANY mobile device you want…that’s because they have embraced the Consumerization of IT. However, as opposed to trying to find a way to secure […]
There are two separate issues involved with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies that seem to get constantly mixed up: Who pays for the device Choice of device Who pays for the device With the proliferation of smartphones in the general population, many employees who did not previously have a corporate paid device, and […]
Article published in Wireless Business & Technology: 2012 is shaping up to be a challenging year for CIOs as they figure out how to safely embrace the slew of mobile devices entering their networks. Smartphones and tablets are seriously threatening the IT status quo, and CIOs who fail to adapt and get ahead of this […]