Do you know that organizations and IT departments scramble to devise a good strategy for enterprise mobility? Surprisingly, only half of them have well-defined mobile strategies, confirms a recent survey of over six hundred companies by IBM. Now this is where a handbook for enterprise mobility can be instrumental for CIOs, CTOs, and IT decision-makers who look for creating robust enterprise mobile strategies and solutions. This book shares some of the practical cases related with enterprise mobility, which will be relevant and resourceful for enterprises seeking to get through their own obstacles and setbacks. It is divided into four major sections comprised of following: 1. The Mobility Revolution 2. Enterprise Mobility in the Workplace 3. The Scope of Enterprise Mobility 4. Other Aspects of Enterprise Mobility These sections further unfold into thirteen chapters. This book should also help you explore and understand the key aspects like mobile device management (MDM), BYOD, and mobile security. Precisely, it could be no less than a handbook for CIOs, CTOs, and organizations who want to enable enterprise mobility effectively.

Although enterprise mobility is in high demand across domains, an absence of experts who have worked on enterprise mobility has resulted in a lack of books on the subject. A Comprehensive Guide to Enterprise Mobility fills this void. It supplies authoritative guidance on all aspects of enterprise mobility-from technical aspects and applications to

The study at hand is about current and future requirements and influences of business apps within Enterprise Mobility. The main objective is to provide recommendations for an IT consultancy, who needs a strategy to approach mobility market best. The recommendations include a service portfolio as well as an approach based on results of the investigation. The investigation has been conducted via interviews and focused on current and potential business apps user of different industries, job levels and company sizes. The questions contained topics from four dimensions: economic, technical, process and social. These perspectives structure the whole study so to say not only the investigation, but also literature review and analysis.Based on the conclusion of the investigation the recommendation suggests a service portfolio with three building blocks: Readiness Check, Transition Management and Advanced Mobility.

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,8, Henley Business School University of Reading, language: English, abstract: The thesis at hand is about current and future requirements and influences of business apps within Enterprise Mobility. The main objective is to provide recommendations for Trigon Consulting, a German IT consultancy, who needs a strategy to approach mobility market best. The recommendations include a service portfolio as well as an approach based on results of the investigation. The investigation has been conducted via interviews and focused on current and potential business apps user of different industries, job levels and company sizes. The questions contained topics from four dimensions: economic, technical, process and social. These perspectives structure the whole thesis so to say not only the investigation, but also literature review and analysis. Based on the conclusion of the investigation the recommendation suggests a service portfolio with three building blocks: Readiness Check, Transition Management and Advanced Mobility. The Readiness Check is based on the conclusion that companies need the right mobile strategy which supports the overall business goals and creates real business value. In addition most of the companies are not familiar with mobility and need therefore help to introduce a sufficient and reliable mobility environment within limited investment effort. For these reasons the Readiness Check is a consecutive offering with three services. The Enterprise Mobility Strategy service helps companies aligning their mobility strategy to the overall business strategy. The Use Case service is important to find, evaluate and prioritise appropriate scenarios for the usage of business apps. Along the Transition Approach service Trigon should be able to give advice how a company will be transformed into a mobilised enterprise. After the analysis part, the Transition Management proposal should help organisations in their transformation process with various services. It was found out in the investigation that many companies have been started recently or plan to start the transformation phase, so based on their needs dedicated services of Transition Management offering would be beneficial for them. A pilot project should give enterprise the opportunity to gain experience and build knowledge within the new topic. Further business app development and its integration are key services to build efficient and user friendly mobile solutions, which utilise business processes and leverage user productivity. [...]

This book is a breakthrough for beginners and intermediates of enterprise mobility. Scholars, executives, and experts can major scale and scope of enterprise mobility for a thirst of knowledge. This book is an independent view on enterprise mobility, which is beneficiary to business heads, technical architects, project managers, analysts, system administrators, project leads, and developers for enterprise mobility, design, development, support, and maintenance. The book has been classified in seven sections. Section one introduces enterprise mobility with definition, objective, focus areas, needs, and challenges of enterprises. Section two details enterprise mobility ecosystem, landscape, and maturity model. Enterprise mobility is surrounded with technical acronyms and terminologies (EMM, EAS, MAM, MDM, MCM, and MEM). Section three provides concept and detail of EMM. Section four emphasizes on technology. This section describes leading mobile platforms, form factors, and type of mobile applications. Section five traverses through enterprise mobile application information flow, architecture, layered structure, and other components. It inspects popular and important architecture ingredients (Push Notification, SSO, mBaas, SOA, and MEAP). Section six shares mobility trends like mobile first, gamification, IOT, and hybrid. Last section seven is a case study for enterprise mobile solution. Finally, appendix section supplements RIX: Best Practices for enterprise mobility pathway.

Previously published in the journal 'Information knowledge systems management' 7, 1-2 (2008), ISSN 1389-1995.

Mobile applications are now part of our personal daily life. Imagine how many times you spend per day running applications on your smartphone or tablet. Day-to-day applications such as your calendar, your email client or your browser; social networking apps that allow you to connect to friends and colleagues, productivity apps dedicated to practising sports, daily budgeting, travel, bookings etc. While consuming personal mobile applications is based on a "e;Try & Throw"e; model, mobile applications entering the enterprise world require a more thoughtful approach. Enterprises must have a mobility strategy.As mobile technology has entered a mature phase, companies are confident enough to start implementing mobility. Axel Beauduin and Rachid Kaouass share their experience and pragmatic vision of enterprise mobility and how best to implement it. The authors will guide you through every step of the process, from roadmap construction to the deployment of mobile applications in the enterprise. This book will be useful to all IT and non-IT business actors interested in implementing mobile solutions in their company or organisation.