Managing Bring-Your-Own-Device A Challenge For IT
Consumer technology in the workplace is the stuff of nightmares for IT managers the world over grappling with changes - and, potentially, threats - to the way modern businesses run their corporate computer systems.
The global drift towards allowing employees to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is something of a love-hate relationship. On one hand, permitting a hotch-potch of employees' personal smartphones or tablets access to the corporate network poses an unprecedented threat to the integrity of a business' systems, yet the possibility of significantly reduced acquisition and maintenance costs for both hardware and software, plus increased employee satisfaction, are just too great to ignore.
Naturally, this very 21st century dilemma has spawned a new and lucrative product category: mobile device management (MDM). Although the world's enterprise software giants Oracle, RIM, IBM and SAP have MDM offerings, they're not the only ones, nor are they necessarily the best-known players in this nascent industry.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/managing-byod-a-challenge-for-it-20120502-1xyq4.html#ixzz1v65ZLz9R
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