Companies Want To Know: What Does Modern Mobility Look Like?
Modern mobility has brought the business world a long way. We have smartphones offering email, maps, banking information, cloud storage, and a host of other features available at the press of a button. Doing work remotely has never been so simple or efficient. And the modern enterprise environment is saturated with mobile devices — smartphones and tablets, company-owned tech and BYOD solutions, Apple and Android hardware, and endless mobile software solutions.
But change only fosters more change. The mobile world continues to grow, and it means enterprise mobility is poised for even more evolution in the future. According to WhaTech, enterprise mobility is set to become a $500 billion market by 2020.
As the market grows, companies will see increased need for enterprise mobility management solutions, along with enterprise telecom management solutions built to support a shift from voice to data-centric communications.
Today’s mobility landscape is promising, and many companies are using the technology to build smart, efficient operations within their companies. But as time goes by, continued growth and tech innovations will increase the need for mobility management services.
The Growing Need for Mobility-as-a-Service
A mobile environment does not function as a self-sustaining infrastructure. Companies have to manage mobility among their employees to make sure security and privacy is not compromised. Meanwhile, mobile environments can only be efficient when technology is online and active. Given the increase of mobile devices in a given enterprise environment, the risks of downtime and technical malfunctions is greater than ever.
Mobility management services can address these needs through mobility help desks, EMM solutions, and TEM services that keep the costs of mobile environments under control. As MobileIron CEO Barry Mainz explains to Tech Target, mobile devices increase the number of endpoints in an enterprise environment, which creates new demands on how that environment should be managed.
“Endpoints will be mobile operating systems, and it completely changes the way in which we manage applications and security,” says Mainz. “Mobile computing is really about allowing your company to get this mobilization of not only the ability to look at data, but [to] act on it quickly.”
Setting the Stage For IoT
These challenges will become even more obvious as Internet of Things solutions brings yet another revolution. By bringing IoT systems into an enterprise environment, mobile infrastructure becomes exponentially more complex. That’s a good thing, because IoT provides a more synergistic infrastructure that can speed up productivity and cut down on device downtime.
But that’s only possible when these systems are managed through the right solutions. And while some of these mobile innovations haven’t yet reached every enterprise environment, companies must recognize the importance of building the infrastructure first.
Without effective mobility management, enterprises are playing with fire — and it’s only a matter of time before they get burned.