Increase Productivity with an Integrated Mobility Manager

Grazed from CIO. Author: Christopher Janoch.

I sat next to a senior sales executive from a large cellular reseller on a plane recently, who was bitterly complaining about how mobile devices were complicating his life. He was carrying two cell phones, an iPad and a laptop—all with different applications and services—and he was struggling to access and email a document from the device he created it on to another. His struggle is a common one; studies show that more than 52 percent of information workers use three or more devices for work.

In another example from a recent client engagement, I was interviewing a remote office manager who was required by her office to carry two separate laptops—one for use in her client’s network environment (which she used for meetings, presentations, and project scheduling), and another for her company’s native environment (which she used for resource management, corporate email, and secure document access)…

Both of these scenarios result from an IT organization relying on single-point solutions for application services and security. In the first example, the gentleman had gone rogue, relying on applications not supported by his company to be more productive. A survey of U.S. employees indicated that 27 percent of employees use do-it-yourself technology to increase capabilities and become more efficient…

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