2016/06/16
 
16 Jun, 2016 | 3 min read

Enterprise Mobility Management: Moving Beyond Traditional Mobile Device Management

  • Samudra Weerasinghe
  • Senior Lead Marketing Officer - WSO2

Today, managing mobility is not just confined to embracing the bring your own device (BYOD) or corporately owned, personally enabled (COPE) concepts in your enterprise, or which device platform or operating system you use. The focus has shifted to more advanced strategies that enable enterprises to become connected and reach a new level of agility through digital transformation.

While the modern enterprise mobility management landscape has transformed significantly, it has also brought about more complexities.

Employees now work from locations all over the world, access data from various data centers and share this data not only through corporate networks, but also through cloud services and APIs. Because of this sense of globalization and the advent of cooler and more convenient mobile devices, enterprises started adopting mechanisms that consider all these factors in their infrastructure in order make their employees and their company as a whole more productive.

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This made device management not only about managing, securing and storing device data. It’s now about making mobility management part of the entire enterprise ecosystem. This means you need to think about broader aspects like governance, analytics, and identity provisioning. Such a system needs to

  • Be extensible enough to support all devices and operating system types.
  • Have a plug-in model that allows you to integrate with other tools (such as analytics and governance tools) existing in your environment.
  • Be able to moderate, approve and provision applications through a corporate app store.
  • Produce analytics dashboards, audit trails and reports to supplement business strategies.
  • Have comprehensive policy management and enforcement functionality with capabilities such as compliance monitoring, containerization, data encryption and password enforcement.

So how exactly do you go about building such a comprehensive enterprise mobility management system? By using the right tool for the right job. You need to implement a tool that not only meets the above requirements, but is also scalable enough to accommodate your enterprise’s growth. It should also be user-friendly and customizable in order to win over your employees.

Where can you find such a solution? Right here. WSO2 Enterprise Mobility Manager (WSO2 EMM) offers all of this and more. Key advantages of adopting WSO2 EMM:

  • Gives you the ability to compose, enforce and manage granular level security policies for individual and groups of devices.
  • Enables strategic decision making by making information gathered across all mobile business activities available through powerful dashboards with analytics and reporting.
  • Strengthens security through data encryption and password enforcement among other things.
  • Embraces device ownership schemes like BYOD enabling employees to be more efficient and make decisions faster while saving enterprises the procurement and data plan cost associated with each user.

WSO2 EMM is a 100% open source comprehensive enterprise-grade platform with all the capabilities you need for enterprise mobility management including device configuration management, policy enforcement, app management, device data security, and compliance monitoring.

To learn more about WSO2 EMM and its capabilities, watch WSO2 Technical Lead Prabath Abeysekara’s talk on Enterprise Mobility Management: Moving Beyond Traditional MDM at WSO2Con Asia 2016.

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