How Businesses are Evolving by Incorporating Mobility Solutions

Mobile technology has facilitated several tasks that were earlier done manually and required great human input. All such tasks are now pursued through various smart devices that yield faster, better outputs. Smartphones had eased processes like emailing, instant messaging, gaming and social media. With the growth of tablets and wearables, the expansion of artificial intelligence and information technology is bound to augment to greater heights. Initially launched for consumer sector, these device have had huge impacts on the corporate environment, as more and more users brought forward the concept of BYOD ( Bring your own devices).

Various different devices were deployed for personal as well as professional means. This simplified the business workflows as the employees were not needed to be at the workplace all the time to correspond to business credentials. They could respond to business related emails from their homes or elsewhere. This also led the development of enterprise mobility solutions that were created to manage the organisational data and sync it with the requisite users.

As BYOD gained traction, various flaws were observed from time to time. The enterprises had no control over the data being mediated, hence data leak became a contiguous problem. A cleaner strategy was therefore required to control the transmission of data flow from one user to another and also to keep a vigilant scan on the users accessing as well as manipulating the business information.

Also the users have shifted focus from delving into office environment to moving to free places like coffee shops for better communication of thoughts with clients and other business related workflows. So even though this has led to free flow of information between clients and employees but still stricter policies are required to mitigate data leak breaches. This brought forth the ideology of COPE ( Corporate Owned Personally Enabled ). The devices are given by the enterprise to the users which they can further incorporate for personal functions also. Many convulsions initially revolved around personal data being misused by the organisations. But various policies and technologies for safeguarding corporate data, secure intranet, file shares, email and PIM have been released that is having zero impact on personal data privacy. Many containers have been created that keep corporate data distanced from the personal data and disallow flow of information from one application to another.

Many business corporations are extremely against the approach of BYOD and state it as a non profitable trend that must be disavowed at the earliest. If the enterprises pay the user for the operator rates and plans then the business suffer a lot financially. Rather it is a viable approach to provide the smartphones and the plans as per company needs to the users. Also it is illegal to wipe out information from devices the company does not own. So in case a device is stolen, the company can easily wipe out all its confidential information from the device. This is again in favor of the businesses allowing them to pose control on the data that holds relevancy to their complete business architecture.