IT Management Goes Device Agnostic

With the advent of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, IT Departments are placing a new priority on finding mobile applications which are device agnostic.  In the past, IT Departments focused on a homogenous mobile device management (MDM) strategy.  An example is using one platform for all mobile devices, such as BlackBerry.  Yet such strategies are quickly losing traction as users are focused on flexibility, specifically the flexibility to BYOD.  As more and more people turn to platforms such as Android and Apple, and with the extreme popularity of mobile phones such as the Android based Samsung Galaxy S3 and Note, as well as the Apple iPhone and iPad, IT Departments are compelled to allow users to use such devices for work.  In fact, 67 percent of users who use a smartphone for work, and 70 percents of users who use a tablet for work, chose the device themselves.¹

As BYOD drastically changes the IT landscape of many organizations, traditional MDM is quickly becoming a management strategy of the past.

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