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Enterprise Mobility Must Be Planned Ahead of Time

11/24/201304/13/2014 Guest Post

Accommodating For The Mobile Movement Will Require Foresight The workplace is much different than it used to be, largely due to the consumerization of IT phenomenon and the Internet of Everything trend – both of which are encouraging employees to leverage mobile devices for more activities than ever before. While embracing bring your own device (BYOD) and other mobile trends can help support a remote workfoce and augment the way colleagues and customers communicate, launching the endeavors inefficiently can result in significant performance and security challenges. A new Workshare study of more than…

BYOD 101: How it Changed Businesses

11/09/201304/13/2014 Guest Post

BYOD or “bring your own device” entered the lexicon in the mid part of the first decade of the new century when it was mentioned in a paper by Ballegas et al at UBICOMP 2005. By 2009, the movement had gained some momentum as employees at Intel began bringing their own devices to work and use them to connect to the corporate network. By 2012, the United States Equal Opportunity Commission had adopted a BYOD policy. Despite this, many employees balked at the trend due to concerns about billing and…