Enterprise Mobility Helps Save Money – If You’re Thinking The Same, Think Over It Again!

With the concept of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), more ‘n’ more employees are bringing their own personal devices like Smartphones, Tablets and other Android devices instead of using the ones offered by the organization. Evolution of enterprise mobility in India has transformed the way organizations were carrying their business operations. While the CIOs of the organizations thinks that BYOD helps them saving costs as they won’t have to buy specific devices for the employees. But it is not always a truth.

According to the recent survey, the enterprises that simply say BYOD is all about productivity and have completely overlooked the cost structure are playing with a blank check, which has created a huge question mark on the current trend of enterprise mobility. Enterprise mobility was supposed to help CIOs overcoming the conventional hardware-buying cycle or at least reduce the cost. For some of the popular technology giants, the concept of BYOD costs more than the long run than the company-owned devices.

So where is actually all the money is going? In this post we’ll try to take a look at a few of the hidden things that actually consumes more money.

-          Expense Reports

Most of the organizations spend an average of $80 for the company-owned mobile devices, or $10 more than the concept of BYOD. Initially, you may feel that the enterprise mobility solutions helps you save a lot money, right? Well, unfortunately that is not a truth. You will have to take a look at the hidden cost of reimbursing the BYOD workers as the employee will put a monthly expense report for his/her personal wireless device’s bill.

Moreover, preparing a single report will cost at least $18 to process, says Aberdeen, which at the end drag the cost of the BYOD mobile device bill around $90/month. Sometimes, employees often expense their entire wireless bill rather than the itemized bill as it would be almost impossible for the organizations to filter their personal and professional usage.

-          Security, management, data loss and more

With the concept of Bring Your Own Device, the IT person within an organization will have to input every device into a system, punching the phone number, IMEIs and other employee details manually. It could be a major pain point for the organizations to deal with the BYOD on an ongoing basis.

Also, there is a huge amount of costs involved in security and compliance with the BYOD. CIOs of the organizations will have to invest in a multi-platform mobile device management solutions and other softwares.

-          Help desk support

You will have to invest in the help desk support as well. With the BYOD, IT departments are unable to control the actions of the carriers or the devices. However, they are still responsible to support the BYOD employees without getting any additional resources. Moreover, the employees can easily fix the problems faced within their wireless devices. So, the organizations will have to invest in the help desk support.

-        Multi-platform & multi-department

It is a fact that the concept BYOD brings more platforms to develop          applications for and support. Opting for the enterprise mobility may lead your organization to develop a dedicated app for the iPhone or iPad devices. Developing an internal app can drastically rise with the bring your own device concept. Moreover, it requires multi-department support as well. So, the company will have to invest in the multi-department communication process to handle the issues created in BYOD.

After going through the above details, do you still think that enterprise mobility will help you save a lot of cost? Share your views on this!

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Enterprise Mobility Security Threats Are Real & Growing Rapidly With Each Passing Day

The concept of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) has fuelled the usage of mobile devices, cloud storage repositories, various kinds of data types, and, obviously, data breaches by the malicious employees within the enterprises. According to the recent survey, the number of cases in which mobile devices are the means of stealing the data is almost double compared to that of the last year.

While there are tons of articles and posts are being written about the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and mobile security, you will find a very rare of them actually focusing on the reality of the security threats growing with each passing day. Moreover, there has been a lot of talk about the enterprise mobility security or threats. But is it really a truth or just big hype created by the users and experts? In this blog post, we’ll try to find out the truth and we will see how it is growing with each passing day.

Well, in reality based on the network, the threats can be divided into either by the external vector or the internal vector. The external vector is usually the hackers or cyber crooks who come straight away from the overseas in order to penetrate the network. Most of them continue to come through the traditional avenues and not necessarily from the concept of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).

However, enterprise mobility policies have increased the risk of internal threats to the enterprises leveraging from the concept of BYOD. Most probably any malicious employee within an enterprise is a big threat to the security as they have multiple ways of connecting to the network and move the information around.

So, the security threat, in terms of the internal vector, is already present and big enough to make or break the enterprise mobility. Moreover, the businesses have seen a great rise in the BYOD data breaches, specifically in the forensics are around employment matters. There are many cases where employees within the organizations have stolen the information or intellectual properties of the enterprise. In such scenarios, the concept of BYOD comes straight into the scrutiny. Instead of just looking at the server, email or the computer, now the enterprises have to consider the smartphone devices, iCloud or Dropbox account, or Gmail for the security breach.

Have you noticed any kind of security breach through the concept of BYOD?

One of the most common ways BYOD policies may cause data security and breaches is due to the cross-pollination of passwords. Most of the time employee uses the same password as they use in their home systems or devices. They are mostly logging from the home into the corporate network through the similar username and password. However, chances of a security breach due this are very less.

Do you think the concept of BYOD will be affected by the downfall?

If organizations turn a blind eye towards mobile devices, they are going to penetrate the workplace anyway. You are unable to control each and every action. But you should be futuristic for using the concept of enterprise mobility in your organization to overcome the rising security threats...!

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How Apple Would Survive In Constantly Changing Mobility Paradigm?

The launch of the iPhone and the iPad concurred with the concept of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend. Apple’s mobile devices, included Smartphone like the iPhone and tablets such as iPad, have flooded the enterprises and organizations, and the IT pros could do a little to stop that flow.

If we believe to the figures from the analysts IDC, more than 31 million iPhones were sold straightforwardly to the business last year, 37 million iPhones to the workers and almost 79 millions to the consumers. This clearly indicates that iPhones and iPads have become a popular choice among the businesses across the globe due to its immense popularity as a consumer device.

What does it mean? Well, it's quite obvious that the Apple has managed to sell its hardware to the enterprises without involving the people who use to make the buying decision, including the CIO and the IT department within the organizations. However, you can consider the Apple’s success in enterprise mobility its fortunate or a mere side effect of its immense success as a consumer product.

That is both, a strong and a weak side of Apple. It’s a strong side or strength because it shows that Apple can sell to the enterprises or businesses without worrying about the requirements or expectations of the CIO of an organization and thus, without any obligation to support inflated enterprise capabilities at the cost of hip consumer flourishes.

However, the same could be one of the major weaknesses of the Apple as it’s favorite among the enterprises as long as its popularity among its consumers, which is a very weak base.

So, how strongly established is Apple in the field of enterprise mobility? The first ever iPhone was discovered size years back and that is quite a long time in the field of technology. However, the rivals of the Apple have identified the threat of the iPhone and finally started delivering high-end Smartphones that many people across the wanted to use.

Earlier, it was enough for the Apple to convince workers to fall for the iPhone within the enterprise. But now Apple will have to change its philosophy and will have to start talking to the CIO if it wants to survive in this highly competitive mobile technology environment. Apple will have to woo the CIOs, specifically is there’s something of a backlash against BYOD and management will have to roll up the sleeves to bring different kinds of devices that are allowed to access by the business systems.

Moreover, Apple has a great story for the enterprise, it just needs to elaborate it a little bit more while leaving back all the negative perceptions grown up till now. Also, it should not forget that Microsoft may have a poor customer base but it has two strong supporters from the enterprises: CIO & the IT department.

Every one of us might be aware about the dominance of Microsoft in the enterprise through its desktops. However, some of you might argue that Microsoft’s execution is still poor and need a lot of work but you should not forget that it could be improved. Another great weapon of Microsoft is Office. Most of all the businesses are built on Office. You can’t rule the enterprise, until Office stops being the dominant productivity tool.

Microsoft is not a just single platform that pushing down Apple these days. Samsung is also in the market and creating buzz among the enterprise buyers while adding CIO-friendly features within the devices.

All this spice up the enterprise mobility trend far more than it was earlier as much of the success will depend on how the next generation handsets from the Apple and its competitors will be responded by the consumers and how well the organizations will utilize them with their business…!



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