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Overview For U & Me

Enterprise Mobility Management: A Bird’s Eye View Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) is an emerging paradigm, and enterprises are rapidly jumping on to this bandwagon. The use of mobile devices is becoming increasingly popular as a work tool, bringing in its wake a few security concerns. Read on to learn more about EMM.

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he BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend has spread to almost all enterprises to varying degrees. Along with the convenience of mobility, organisations face many challenges on the security and management front, forcing them to think about new ways on how to better manage their enterprise mobility solutions. Enterprise administrators are required to manage security and prevent IT threats at diverse endpoints. An Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) product suite helps enterprises tackle this problem with ease. This article provides a bird’s eye view of what Enterprise

Mobility Management comprises and what established players offer.

The building blocks of Enterprise Mobility Management

The prime concerns of an enterprise CIO are endpoint protection and corporate data security. Also, users need complete privacy and control of their personal data with no compromises. Enterprise Mobility Management solutions are the new buzzword in the market to solve these problems. Gartner has defined the EMM space as: “Enterprise www.OpenSourceForU.com  |  OPEN SOURCE For You  |  July 2014  |  77


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