Undeniably, any existing boundaries that happened to lie between working “in the office,” “on the road,” or “at home” have been entirely blurred by the untethered power of smartphones, tablets, and similar portable devices. Flexibility to work on the devices employees want to choose developed as an important factor in the corporate environment. In return, employers expect always-on availability from the employees.
However, one needs to address the large nexus of different departments within an organization. They can cause a great debate on how much access is needed, balanced against how to protect sensitive data shared and accessed on portable devices in and outside the organization.
If one wants to maximize mobility, a refined strategy and proper execution is a recipe for success. In order to unleash the transformative potential of enterprise mobility, befitting, well-strategized enterprise mobility consulting which understands business drivers and then devises the technology roadmap to support everyone’s goals, is imperative.
What lies ahead?
Once you have established enterprise mobility throughout your organization, the next step ahead is managing it. Proactive monitoring, control and protection of critical data - across devices, applications, data and network, are of increasing importance once you have established the network.
Effective management and security adherence is needed when in order to effectively undertake enterprise mobility.
App management
Mobile Application Management, focuses on the life-cycle aspects such as distribution, updates, enterprise app catalogs, blacklisting/whitelisting, and security. Application management became useful in managing the exploding universe of public and custom apps. However, there is no “one size fits all” app— a few of them might be written or owned by the enterprise—so the ability to control them would always be limited.
There is one ideal application for mobile app management, and that is controlling a device dedicated to a single app, which is ideally known as “Kiosk Mode.” Use cases in retail stores and hotels have allowed this mode to speed-up the check-in process, look up inventory, or order food and beverages.
Managing Devices
Mobile Device Management, is the nucleus of information technology’s Big Bang point solution for being able to gain visibility and apply some controls. Mobile device management has given IT the ability to enforce a passcode, connect to corporate resources such as email
and WiFi networks, and monitor devices.
Will the help from APIs built into the operating system, IT could configure settings, enable or disable features, locate and lock devices remotely and even partially or fully wipe data when necessary. Organization’s IT department termed this to be good, and the people mostly agreed. Users and apps have become more sophisticated, and documents such as spreadsheets and Word docs became manipulable on mobile devices. This led to companies developing a good mobile device management model.
Conclusion
A comprehensive and solid mobile policy for your organization is much more
than a knee-jerk reaction to every new “expansion” from the mobile universe. IT department plays a vital role to set different permissions and controls for different groups, and manage these controls through a common system.
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