Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs can offer companies appealing productivity gains and cost savings. For instance, a recent Trend Micro study of corporate decision-makers finds that promises of increased productivity is the chief factor driving BYOD initiatives. However, even though many business leaders express security concerns about allowing employees to store proprietary company and customer information [...]
Enterprise Mobility BYOD
RSS feed for this sectionAddressing Enterprise Mobility and Continuity Challenges
The movement towards enterprise mobility as part of the growing BYOD (bring your own device) movement presents new challenges to business continuity planning (BCP) for IT and operations managers — including wider distribution of sensitive corporate and customer data on devices that aren’t owned by the company. As Tom Olzak notes in a recent article for [...]
BYOD: Like the Mac, It’s Here to Stay
BYOD: the critics said it wouldn’t last — but, if you remember, that’s what the critics said about the Apple MacIntosh in 1984 – and most other Apple products since. And, we all know what happened with the Mac, the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Same thing with BYOD — it’s here [...]
BYOD? How About CYOD (Choose Your Own Device)?
Businesses have witnessed a dramatic evolution in mobile computing in recent years. Many organizations have transitioned from purchasing and managing mobile devices used by employees (or reimbursing employees after they bought a smartphone or tablet) to a state where staff now elects to bring their own device (BYOD) into the workplace. But what about choose [...]
Making Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Easier for IT
As employees continue to expand the definition of BYOD (bring your own device) in the workplace by toting laptops, Mac Minis and other devices into the workplace, companies will change the way they go about managing the mobile environment. According to a new report by Forrester Research entitled “2013 Forrester Mobile Security Predictions,” analyst Chenxi [...]
The Four Principles of Mobile Application Management
As companies become more involved in the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement and provide employees with enterprise mobile apps ranging from email to sales force automation to field service tools, IT and business leaders find themselves trying to determine the most effective approach for managing, monitoring, and securing corporate apps and data. The security [...]
Tablets in the enterprise: latest insights into BYOD
Watch PCMag columnist Michael Miller debate with our very own Stephen Skidmore and bigtincan’s Andrew Berman on the future of managing an organization that allows employees to bring tablets from home. Video is from the TabTimes TABLET STRATEGY conference.
Mobile Application Management: Secure Data, Not Devices
When IT leaders contemplate approaches for managing their mobile app environments, two methodologies often spring to mind: Mobile Application Management (MAM) and Mobile Device Management (MDM). When the two techniques are compared side by side, it’s easy to see why device management is out of style and runs counter to the way that IT organizations [...]
Mobile Application Management and Employee Training
A recent survey from the International Association of Administrative Professionals shows that while the number of office professionals using mobile devices and cloud apps has increased, the level of training has not kept up. Additionally, the IAAP’s research shows that admin professionals are mostly responsible for their own training at work — and with nearly [...]
BYOD: Driving ROI with Enterprise Mobile Apps
There are multiple benefits for companies that launch BYOD (bring your own device) programs and distribute enterprise mobile apps. For example, enabling employees to become more productive while leveraging the mobile devices that are owned and paid for by employees. With the employee paying for most or all of the costs of the hardware, voice, [...]