Much quicker than anticipated smartphone shipments today already exceed personal computer shipments. The astonishing rate at which new mobile devices emerge and their widespread private use is the major force behind the recent consumerization of IT: the migration of consumer devices into enterprise computing. More and more employees are bringing their personal devices to the workplace.
While mobility increases employee productivity, corporate IT management is facing new and serious challenges in the areas of data security, service and support. The mobile access strategy for any company that decides to support business apps on private devices should at least answer these questions:
> How to deploy the apps to the employees (and only to the employees)
> How to support the different flavors and brands of end user devices
> How to manage the remote users
> How to keep the infrastructure manageable and secure
By RAM Navara