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Businesses not embracing
enterprise mobility
risk falling behind
Businesses that haven’t put in place a formal enterprise mobility strategy, could unknowingly
be giving their competitors the edge. Enterprise mobility enables businesses to give
employees choice and flexibility to work from anywhere, using any device to remotely access
company data in an effort to improve overall productivity and efficiency. Companies that
have adopted enterprise mobility in some form or another, but haven’t formalised it, could
be putting the company at a disadvantage over its competitors. The opportunity today is for
businesses to embrace enterprise mobility and use it to unlock business efficiencies.
This is the view of Anthon Muller, Executive Head of Managed Enterprise Mobility at Vodacom
“The fundamental objective of enterprise mobility is to enhance business processes, to improve
business agility and to reduce operating costs,”
he says. “The days of needing three devices to
perform one task are over. Today individuals can
fulfill multiple objectives through just one device.
And, as much as individuals are embracing this
mobile revolution, businesses must also embrace
it.” He stipulates that by ‘businesses’ he doesn’t
just mean the IT department, but the entire
company.
“As a first step a company needs to reengineer
their processes. This will include the interrogation of existing data and application workflows to
ensure that the business is set up to deliver what
the user needs on a single screen.
“Different lines of business will have different requirements. But by focusing on the end user, enterprise mobility can revolutionise the way business is done. It will also allow companies to meet
the demands of the ever changing landscape of
digital assets, data and ‘always on’ connectivity.”
Muller notes that security is a crucial element of
the mobile enterprise.
“The days of needing 3 devices to
perform 1 task are over.”
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“...enterprise mobility
can revolutionise the way
business is done.”
“Bring your own device or BYOx is driving the
need to segregate personal and professional
data on a device, whilst accommodating security and end-point management. In order to
ensure that company data is secure at all times
an organisation must call on security experts to
assess and mitigate current and potential future
risks.”
With the move away from feature phones, and
the move towards smartphones and tablets, IT
departments are under more pressure than ever
when it comes to managing a plethora of devices and at the same time maintaining security.
This can be done through enterprise mobility
management (EMM) which draws on the following components: mobile device management
(MDM); mobile application management (MAM);
and mobile information management (MIM).
Muller believes that while everyone has enterprise mobility on their radar, and some businesses have integrated some mobility elements, by
not developing a holistic approach companies
are limiting the value it brings.
“The challenge for South African businesses is
to build a deep understanding of their enterprise
mobility needs and to translate that into a strategy that will truly deliver business agility and
enhance competitiveness.”
About Vodacom Business
Vodacom Business was established in 2008 as the enterprise arm of Vodacom Group. It delivers total communication solutions to meet the needs of the public sector, large, medium and small enterprises. Vodacom Business
offers solutions that extend from mobile to fixed line access, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Voice over IP (VoIP),
hosted facilities, cloud computing based hosted services, storage, back up, security and application solutions.
For more information, visit http://vodacom.co.za/business
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