Enterprise mobility and BYOD cost challenges plague organizations
Summary
Even if an IT department manages to successfully develop a robust mobility program, find the right device and application management products, deploy mobile productivity applications, control data leakage, and upgrade the networking infrastructure to support an influx of new devices, theres still the problem of cost. Companies can manually manage those expenses themselves, but there are also plenty of vendors willing to help bring down and control the cost of mobile initiatives, such as Amtel, Avema Corp. and Tangoe Inc. BYOD costs add up and wont save your organization money, said Damian Broccoli, an infrastructure engineer at Terex Corp., a large equipment manufacturer based in Dallas. Going with corporate-issued devices provides an organization more control to manage support, negotiate group rate plans and the like. The immense benefits of letting employees use the computing devices and applications they want, along with working from anywhere at any time, is too powerful to ignore, said Scott Schemmel, vice president of global IT for PGi, a virtual collaboration solutions vendor headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. "We havent gone full-blown into tablets and social media just yet even though weve embraced them," Schemmel said.
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