Byod News & Articles

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.

Smart devices connected to the cloud could number 50 billion by 2020, and that means the security problems associated with BYOD offer but a small window into the potential hacking onslaught ahead.

The desire for the availability of our data is unquenchable. The technological innovation which this need inspires yields continuous development of ever evolving solutions with the express purpose of ensuring our data accessibility independent of time or place.

In an era of mobile agility and digital security, businesses are continually challenged to offer the opportunity for employees to access secure applications from a variety of devices. In an ideal world, workers could use their own mobile devices to access necessary applications and third-party platforms while IT professionals were confident in their ability to lock down, wipe and other wise control and provide secure access. Thanks to Centrify, we’re one step closer.

Among the many issues about the Bring-Your-Own-Device trend: employees who provision their own equipment rank connectivity cost as the least important factor in choosing a network. Companies without cost control policies for the BYOD crowd may well be shocked by the first batch of network charges.

Mobile device management provider Zenprise has released its quarterly report looking at mobile trends in the enterprise. Results identify iPad as the main factor in iOS growth, while Android dominates key verticals.

If you had any doubts that more people are using smart devices, Gartner’s new study should eliminate any lingering uncertainty. According to the analyst firm, smart phone and tablet use is surging in the enterprise, changing the very nature of how we do business.

Recently, we learned that a majority of organizations are planning to deploy line-of-business apps in the next twelve months. What does that really mean for the BYOD policies and mobile device management? A new survey from Fiberlink, a leader in cloud-based solutions for secure mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) reveals that business users are growing more concerned about privacy.

 Apple is likely to start selling the iPad Mini at the beginning of November, just as Windows 8 tablets from the likes of HP and Dell get ready to storm the enterprise. Will Apple's softly-softly approach to penetrate businesses reap rewards, or will old enterprise rules and alliances win out? What tablet hardware will the smart executive or worker be using in 2013?