New Report Highlights Enterprise Mobility Management, Including Expense Management
August 01, 2014
By David Delony, Contributing Writer
A new report by Kable on total technology enterprise mobility management (EMM) is now available, highlighting major trends in the field of enterprise mobile technology, including mobile telecom expense management.
According to the survey, the top ten EMM vendors made up 35.7 percent of the market in 2012, jumping by 1.3 percent to reach 37 percent in 2013
One of the leading drivers of adoption of mobile technology in the enterprise is the “bring your own device” (BYOD) schemes, where employees do exactly that, purchase smartphones and tablets to use as their primary computing devices instead of laptops and desktop PCs.
These mobile devices not only give employees much more flexibility over when and where they work, they are also significantly cheaper on the low end to provision than a traditional PC supplied by the company. Not only do they cost less than a PC, but the cost of the devices is actually shifted to the employee instead of the company, which can also lead to significant costs savings for the employer.
On the other hand, the proliferation of different devices and their attendant security concerns can also cost the company a lot, which is why having good BYOD policies is important as it can save a lot of money by preventing major security breaches and other problems. Avoiding network abuse is one way to manage telecom expenses.
Despite these challenges, the “consumerization of IT” is becoming an important part in keeping telecommunication costs down and employees happy and loyal.
Adopting cheaper, more flexible mobile technologies and keeping enterprise networks secure are small parts of total mobile expense management. EMM providers are integrating device management, application platform management, and expense management into centralized packages because these functions are increasingly inseparable from each other in a modern enterprise communications network, especially as mobile devices rapidly replace traditional wireline and PC-based technologies.
Edited by Rory J. Thompson