Byod News & Articles

Last week, we discussed how to create a successful BYOD policy. It involves focusing on the people using the devices and the sources of information they want to access from their device, rather than the device itself. Further emphasizing this need, Centrify has released a set of integrated capabilities that goes well beyond mobile device management. The new platform can deliver secure, enterprise-class mobility while improving security and increasing productivity in the enterprise.

Everyone has an opinion about Bring Your Own Device policies. Regardless of what you think about it, BYOD ranks high on IT’s lists of mobile concerns and has companies and vendors alike scrambling to accommodate the growing proliferation of mobile devices. Still, we’re so caught up in talking about BYOD, that we haven’t considered how to actually create a BYOD policy. Until now.

Even if there is still no official release date, every day it seems we learn more surrounding the SharePoint 2013 release. The latest -- a recent blog from one of the people working on it that provides brief glimpse into some of the mobile features.

With mobile now the center of computing, what are the biggest concerns enterprises have for mobile? A new report points to rising mobile data costs and “frustration and loss of control” because of the Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) trend.

There's a lot of discussion about creating great customer experiences, but it's time we take some of the ideas and methodologies learned in that realm and apply them to creating a great employee experience, specifically, to the intranet. 

Collaborating on documents has never been easy. Even if you’re working from a desktop with people in the same room there’s bound to be issues, so you can only imagine what it’s like trying to share and edit documents from a mobile device while on the go. Workshare is trying to improve this experience with a new app that aims to offer document comparison for mobile devices.

Last week, YouSendIt, the cloud file collaboration service, bought Found, a system for enabling file search across devices and clouds. Today, YouSendIt is beefing up its mobile offerings with the launch of some new mobile apps for the iPhone, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The apps are designed to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile user base while protecting against the growing security risks of mobile file sharing.

MobileSpan has announced the release of MobileSpan for BYOD, a plug-in solution designed for enterprise systems that connect to mobile devices.

Curious about what’s on the horizon for social business in this new year? According to its recently released predictions, Actiance expects social governance, compliance requirements and the increased use of social networks to directly affect social business strategies for 2013.

How prepared are you to thrive in your work environment? Are you able to access the information you want when you need it? According to a recent survey by Eccentex, many companies are failing to equip their employees with the tools they need to get work done efficiently. Whether it be mobile, cloud-based or business-critical systems, knowledge workers indicated that they don’t have adequate access to the necessary information needed to make informed decisions.

Mobile Device Management and Bring You Own Device (BYOD) solutions provider SOTI Inc has announced an updated version of its enterprise mobile device management solution, MobiControl.

Mobile, BYOD and cloud have converged into a perfect storm of raised user expectation -- and nary a corporate IT manager can escape the downpour. 

The concept of SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) has evolved from a proof of concept to a technology platform that every IT department must take into account. Nucleus Research looked at key business pressures and the constant technology changes that every company struggles to manage, and we are betting on the following trends to SMAC companies upside the head in 2013.

Looking back, as we do in December, it's hard to imagine what life would have been like had there been no mobile. During 2012, our smartphones became smarter, faster, slimmer. Tablets multiplied. Operating systems expanded. Mobile devices became our books, our shopping carts, our mobile wallets, our second screens, our offices and an extension of ourselves.

"I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years…Ever since, I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions."  -- Wilbur Wright, 1908

With none of Wilbur Wright’s humility, here are my predictions for some significant business developments in 2013.