How Do I Pick the Best Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solution?
Mobile workforce is a reality that enterprises can neither avoid nor ignore. Whether they like it or not, their employees are bringing their mobile devices to the workplace. Or having devices issues to them by the company. These devices bring with them a varying degree of complexity in device management and many security threats. However, […]
How a Poor Wireless Strategy Can Upend Your Mobility Initiative
Enterprise mobility, backed by cloud, IoT, smartphones, and dropping wireless prices, is making business agile, faster, and more productive than before. In some cases, like , enterprise mobility has emerged as the key driver of disruptive innovation. Despite the increasing adoption of mobility among the enterprises, a majority of them are yet to unlock the […]
Who Wins the IoT Game: The Early Bird or The Late Adopter?
Most of us are familiar with this adage – the early bird gets the worm. But, what most people don’t know is that this proverb is a redacted version. The complete version sates – the early bird gets the worm, the second mouse gets the cheese. There is wisdom in both parts of this philosophy. […]
Enterprise Mobility Management: Balancing Between Mobility and Security
Pentagon welcomed its first wireless internet network ever in late 2016. Yes! The five sided concrete structure that was a black hole for all mobile and radio networks, now has its own WiFi. This is a development that even Pentagon’s own IT team could not have predicted a decade ago. It was a huge project […]
Why the “Wait and See” Method of Mobility Management Fails
Mobility is an ever-changing concept for most corporations. It is hard to know what your company needs when the landscape is continually shifting. With this in mind, many businesses adopt the “Wait and See” approach, determining what mobility needs should be addressed only when relevant issues arise. This approach, however, will fail almost every time. […]
Mobile Security & Corporate Governance
As we have discussed before, managing a company’s mobility lifecycle requires a certain investment. It usually pays off. While there are many benefits you can exploit from your EMM investment, the most compelling benefit is data security. Distributing a coherent and consistent set of practices across devices, carriers, platforms, and data sources can make the […]
COPE Co-dependency: a Bad Thing?
The more employees rely on a robust mobile infrastructure, the less they can tolerate going without their smartphone if it’s damaged or lost. Who can blame them? If a mobile device can allow them to maximize their work output when they are on the road or working from home, why would any employee want to […]
Wait. Carrier-based MaaS is a thing?
The enterprise space is becoming increasingly competitive for mobile operators as the need for wireless services increases. Sprint has developed a MaaS solution. With this Mobility as a Service (MaaS), Sprint provides the company with Sprint Owned & Maintained devices for the company’s employees. Sprint then offers the company packages of either premium resolution […]
When It Comes To Mobility,
Companies Must Seek
Proactive Management Solutions
The philosophies of proactive and reactive management can be applied to almost any line of business. In general, it refers to the difference between reacting to events as they happen versus anticipating those events ahead of time, and either planning for them accordingly or preventing bad situations from arising. In the context of enterprise […]