Byod News & Articles

The mobile enterprise is picking up. Companies are spending more on mobile device management, implementing BYOD policies and working to help employees do more, from anywhere and any device.

With new technology constantly being added to the workplace environment, it's not always easy to know how well these changes are working. This is something that Chess Media aims to find out in an employee collaboration and work style solutions Future of Work Survey.

Still on the fence about developing a BYOD policy for your organization? Worried about viruses, help-desk challenges, lost data and the DIY mentality that simultaneously comes with BYOD? Fear not.

The latest release from Igloo shows the company is thinking about the mobile worker. The Rockland update brings responsive design to mobile devices, and looks like it could solve some of the problems for those that regularly move between desktops and mobile.

Following-up on its promise to diversify its business in the face of the rapid decline of the PC market, Dell has just announced a new portfolio of mobile solutions that will facilitate Bring-Your-Own-Device strategies within the enterprise.

The BYOD (bring your own device) trend is the most popular corporate mobile computing initiative according to “Mobile Commerce: State of the Market,” a new report from Mobile Commerce World and InformationWeek.

Over 3,500 executives responded to a McKinsey & Company report on the networked enterprise, and not only are social tools now mainstream at those companies, the leaders are seeing outsize results.

“Digital Workplace Trends 2013,” a report based on surveying 362 organizations worldwide, shows that digital workplaces are in very early days.

Enterprise mobile apps enable organizational transformation and have become essential tools for any company seeking operational efficiency. A new Aberdeen research brief, “Enterprise-Grade Mobile Apps -- Powering Organizational Transformation,” provides some hard data to support the assertion that mobile apps now qualify as business-critical technology.

Windows 8 support has been included in a couple of updates for the Novell ZENworks Mobile Management (BYOD) and application virtualization suites.

An overwhelming 90 percent of employees used their personal smartphones for work-related purposes in the past year, but only 46 percent think their companies are prepared for Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) issues. That disconnect is one of the findings in a new report about the realities of BYOD.

Enterprises are going mobile, that we know. But what trends are shaping and what are the major concerns? Citrix has been tracking these issues for some time now, and in its new report we are offered some interesting insights, not least of which is the fact that despite increasing interest in Google Android devices, iOS still dominates.

Maybe Yahoo doesn't want its people working from home, but plenty of other companies do. It saves employees commute time, keeps them out of ridiculously long meetings and allows them to focus on their work versus office politics.

Got a case of the SIEM? Could be if your Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) strategy is taking longer to deploy or you're struggling with managing its complexity. A new report from eIQnetworks, which offers simplified security, risk and compliance solutions, reflects responses from 191 IT decision makers and shows that 44 percent said that it took a few weeks to more than a month to deploy their latest SIEM product.

Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, SAP introduced a mobile content management solution called SAP Mobile Documents that offers a single entry point to user content from any mobile device.