The number of companies embracing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy is increasing everyday. IT-provisioned, corporate-owned devices have already become a thing of the past. Companies have realized the benefits of BYOD policy. This realization made BYOD mainstay rather than a trend.
Last week we have received a support request telling that a user is being locked from the Active Directory continuously. We turned to the user (who was very annoyed) and asked her about any mobile phone or tablet that she may be using that has the corporate email account defined. She told us that she […]
When the company works out the policies and procedures to the BYOD initiative, the next step is to start the company-wide training. The training needs to communicate the way the company will handle the BYOD transition. There are two types of employees that will be partıcularly harder to manage: the senior management who thinks the […]
When the company is done with setting up the BYOD path, the next thing is to get it going. To successfully implement the BYOD the transition, it is better to put it in a formal project context and form a cross-platform, cross-skill team to manage the technology, security, financial implications of the transition. Although BYOD […]
There are many companies which try to resist BYOD just because of the security implications. Although I see this resistance futile, it is there to stay for some time more (I have discussed this in the first two articles: #1 Web of Things and #2 The Swift Revolution). If you remember, in my article titled […]
Quoting straight from Wikipedia, Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) is “the set of people, processes and technology focused on managing the increasing array of mobile devices, wireless networks, and related services to enable broad use of mobile computing in a business context.” I will focus on the “technology” part in the definition and go a little […]
Bring Your Own Device essentially became the companies’ way of shifting mobile device costs from the corporate budget to the employees (the other heavy burden on the employees is the expectation of high availability, but this is outside the scope of this article). Although the costs were somehow shifted and can be justified on the […]
The BYOD revolution was swift, it started and finished instantly. It did not leave any time for the corporate IT to respond or implement policies or take measures. Corporate IT was taken over. The takeover was not coincidental however, it was an expected result. The mobile phones caught up with the speeds of the notebooks, […]
Somewhere back in time, personal digital assistants (PDA) and mobile phones were different devices. We were keeping our calendar, tasks, e-mails on our PDAs and making phone calls and sending SMSes from our mobile phones. Despite mobile phones provided basic calendaring functions, entering meetings via the numeric keypad was cramping at best (to experiment this, […]