RIM Futures: Exit Strategy and Contingency Plans

By Mike Anderson RIM (Research in Motion) once ruled in smartphones. With BlackBerry it provided secure wireless email, a great keyboard-based user experience, and a simple and popular instant messaging system. The ability to connect people to their company email anywhere and any time created a generation of wireless email addicts. RIM Overconfidence is its Undoing [...]

AirWatch Brings BYOD Support to OS X

AirWatch Brings BYOD Support to OS X To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author:  Mike Anderson Topic: Mobile Issues: What are the best practices for harnessing the power of mobile computing? What are the trends impacting mobile computing? Summary: AirWatch announced support for Mac desktop and laptop devices in its mobile management suite. Support [...]

BYOD and the Aragon Globe on Enterprise Mobile Management

By Mike Anderson Our Aragon Research Globe Report on mobile management is in the works. We will be evaluating more than 25 providers of Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM) software. This remains an embryonic market, with more than 60 different providers offering portions of the capabilities enterprises need. Focusing on devices with MDM or apps with MAM [...]

BYOD is not a threat: It is your future workplace

BYOD

By Mike Anderson   The issue of BYOD (bring-your-own-device) is on the radar of nearly every enterprise. IT was historically the leader in identifying, selecting and deploying the best technology for the business, but that time has passed. Today users are tech-savvy, and they are the ones getting the newest technologies first. There is no stopping [...]