{"id":14231,"date":"2017-05-09T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/?p=14231"},"modified":"2017-05-09T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T07:01:31","slug":"enterpise-mobility-and-modern-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/?p=14231","title":{"rendered":"Enterpise mobility and modern businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we want to focus on <strong>enterprise mobility<\/strong> in particular, it would be useful to take a more thorough look on the trends that emerged in 2016, including the following:<\/p>\n<h2>Safety<\/h2>\n<p>This remains the first priority in all areas, due to the fragile balance that allows employees the freedom of <strong>easy access to corporate resources<\/strong>, while at the same time ensuring adequate safety for critical data.<\/p>\n<h2>BYOD<\/h2>\n<p>Thanks to BYOD, employees can add their smartphones or tablets directly to the mobile environment. The issue in this case is whether the <strong>Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions<\/strong> deployed by businesses, will continue to manage the variety of new devices and operating systems available in the market.<\/p>\n<h2>Manageability<\/h2>\n<p>It is certain that MDM will become an important part of almost every <strong>mobile strategy<\/strong>, whether a business decides that its existing solution remains the best possible one, or opts to <strong>migrate to a new system<\/strong> that will make better use of the different features.<\/p>\n<h2>Applications development<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>mobile-first approach<\/strong> is becoming more and more popular. By now, a great number of businesses have declared their intention to give priority to the <strong>mobile version of their business apps<\/strong> within the next two years. The next step would be to carefully plan the distribution and management of these apps, as part of a broader mobile strategy.<\/p>\n<h2>An overall assessment<\/h2>\n<p>Mobility is becoming more and more popular, as a big percentage of <strong>SMBs and large organizations<\/strong> are now describing themselves as partially or fully mobile. The development of mobility is supported by software and this has led to a combination of new technologies. Apart from enabling employees to <strong>work in the way that fits them best<\/strong>, this trend is affecting an increasing part of the workforce. So, we\u2019re witnessing the development of what is known as <strong>Software-Defined Workplace (SDWP)<\/strong>, which combines new technologies that -if used correctly- will enable employees to lift the restrictions of working in their offices. In particular, SDWP allows employees to <strong>work on their laptops or mobile devices<\/strong>, but as part of a broader strategy supporting mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <strong>Enterprise Mobility Management<\/strong> focuses on the management of mobile devices, wireless networks and other computing services in a business environment, and it could be argued that it is the driving force behind the expansion of mobility in the working environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we want to focus on enterprise mobility in particular, it would be useful to take a more thorough look on the trends that emerged in 2016, including the following: Safety This remains the first priority in all areas, due to the fragile balance that allows employees the freedom of easy access to corporate resources, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/?p=14231\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enterpise mobility and modern businesses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14261,"href":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14231\/revisions\/14261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softone.com.cy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}