Bring your own device, or BYOD, is top of mind for many CIOs and IT personnel as they grapple with managing and expanding their mobile workforce. BYOD has impacted decision making on enterprise mobility investment and strategies across all industries regardless of size. Mobile application management (MAM) platforms and associated tools have quickly become key mobility solution components for organizations with established mobile workforces. During this QuickCast, Eric Klein discusses some of the key findings from our MAM report and what those insights mean for enterprise mobility.
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Moving forward consumerization of IT (CoIT) and BYOD policies will have a profound impact on mobile application enablement in the enterprise – while there has been notable attrition in BlackBerry deployments, fragmentation remains an issue and the need for self-service tools will increase as mobile workforces expand.
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is top of mind for CIOs as they grapple with managing and expanding their mobile workforce. Enterprise-grade solutions have emerged to deal with the device diversity that is the hallmark of a BYOD environment, yet many implementations are limited to generic mobile device management (MDM) to provision and secure mobile devices. Indeed, MDM is foundational and required for many organizations that have invested in a mobile strategy for their workforce – however, modern solutions have emerged that offer new methods to secure corporate data that will give CIOs the confidence and peace of mind to extend access to corporate data to their remote mobile workforce.The enterprise mobility solutions market is evolving very quickly – the vendor landscape has become crowded, and pace of change in mobile platform and innovation coming from important mobile startups will continue to challenge CIOs and IT organizations moving forward – market leaders will be well served by regularly evaluating new technologies as they come to market as they can help to achieve competitive advantage.