Mobility Spend and The Impact on IT Budgets
IT budgets are always a controversial topic with many businesses being reliant on their IT systems but unwilling (or unable) to invest heavily in new or updated technology. The sense of optimism that is present in businesses currently suggests that IT budgets will remain the same or even increase over the course of the next […]
IT Executives’ Top Priorities for Enterprise Mobility Strategies
Enterprise users continue to leverage mobile technologies to drive innovation and realize efficiencies within their organizations. However, enterprise mobility adoption is exposing sensitive corporate data to more and new types of security risks. As a result, IT is under increasingly higher pressure to deploy robust enterprise mobility management tools and an overarching enterprise mobility strategy […]
5 Signs That Your IT Department is Overworked and How to Deal With It
It’s yesterday’s news that businesses across industries are embracing digital technologies and are relying on them to achieve a competitive advantage. While this is welcome news for the global economy as it leaps into the future, it also means that the responsibilities of the IT department are expanding. Therefore, it is no surprise that IT […]
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 […]
Timing is Everything in Mobility Lifecycle Management: Mobile Procurement in 2017
Enterprises who provide their employees with mobile devices are ahead of the curb compared to the cheaper and riskier BYOD mobile policy. While the COPE mobile policy is a better fit for a more successful and evolving mobile lifecycle, there is some debate as to how and when to put smartphones and other mobile devices into the […]
The Internet of Things: the Wild West of Mobility
Enterprise mobility is continuously evolving. This is most evident by the booming Internet of Things sector. The Internet of Things is most simply an inter-networking of physical objects inter-networking of devices (also referred to as “connected devices” and “smart devices”), buildings, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity which enable […]
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 […]
What’s the True Cost of BYOD?
Many companies must contend with the issue of determining what is the best way to provide mobile devices to their employees. Many employees express an interest in using their own devices. Some companies think that this is an easy and inexpensive way to adapt to the flexible work style of the 21st century employee. There […]