Wednesday, August 31, 2011

5 Prime Enterprise Mobility Challenges in 2011 - And How to Tackle Them

Today mobility is no longer dispensable but an essential commodity of any organization. Employees expect to remain mobile and connected for better productivity, flexibility and work-life balance. Also, the consumerization of mobile IT has changed the dynamics of enterprise mobility management (EMM). This article discusses the key challenges associated with EMM in 2011 and the must-have features of an EMM solution to tackle them.

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Key EMM Challenges

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The mobile workforce and mobile devices are part of every industry-Education, Finance, Healthcare and the Public sector. With the replacement of laptops and netbooks by tablets and smartphones, the enterprise mobility landscape has been redefined and faces a different set of challenges, including:

Fragmented Mobile Device Market: Different flavors of different mobile operating systems must be managed by IT. Mobile Device Data Security: The portable devices usually host sensitive and confidential information. Tracking lost or stolen devices. Compliance with government regulations. Adapting to the rapidly changing mobile ecosystem.

EMM Platform Must-Haves

In this aggressively changing mobile market, organizations need an EMM platform that not only manages the existing devices but also takes care of the future devices. For optimized mobility management, the key features of an EMM platform are:

Support for more than one mobile operating system; easy integration with existing infrastructure and deployment of new platform.
Ease of use: A single centralized console providing over-the-air control for devices and 24x7x365 support for device owners. An intuitive UI reduces the burden of training its IT administrators for an organization.
Enforce security and compliance standards to comply with government regulations.
Enforce strong security on iPads, iPods Androids, etc., to protect the device and prevent any unauthorized use of data on the device.
Appropriate device policies for enforcing data security, controlling access of company assets and applications, and tracking bandwidth usage for different devices.
Intelligent notification and reporting of lost, stolen devices; tracking the level of mobile data usage and the level of network exposure per employee; and recording uptime of Wi-Fi usage by the device.
Asset management: Visibility of all assets (corporate-owned and personal) within the corporate boundaries.
Rapid deployment of desired applications or software on different types of devices.

Thus, a scalable, multi-tenant and multi-platform enterprise mobility platform, providing over-the-air mobile device management (MDM) can help organizations prepare themselves to effectively and efficiently tackle the emerging mobility challenges and also increase their ROI.

For more information on Best Practices for enterprise mobility management, you may view this webinar: http://links.maas360.com/webinar-best-in-class 

5 Prime Enterprise Mobility Challenges in 2011 - And How to Tackle Them

Pragati Chaplot Jain is a technical writer at MaaS360 By Fiberlink. Fiberlink is the developer of MaaS360, the leading cloud-based, mobile device visibility and management platform. To learn more about how to deploy and monitor mobile devices in an enterprise, go to http://www.maas360.com/products/mobile-device-management/

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