Mobile Device Management
Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a compelling technology that enables enterprises to proactively manage mobile devices such as iPad and iPhone, based on iOS, and Android devices. Management of mobile devices has many attributes of other IT Asset Lifecycle Management challenges but is complicated by the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement when employees bring their own mobile device to work yet expect to have them managed centrally. Even when mobile devices are purchased for employees, management is still complicated by the fact often employees have personal configuration requirements. The best MDM solutions are able to logically partition the management of devices so that only corporate assets on the device are managed. The best mobile device management tools support over the air enrollment of devices in a totally non-disruptive way, but can also integrate device profile management with organization structures in LDAP or other directory systems. As more iPad and other table devices become mainstream corporate tools, mobile device management products become an essential part of an IT Asset Management toolkit.
