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Mobile Device Management Made Easy and Affordable

As workplaces become increasingly mobile, with employees of all types using company issued and personally owned mobile devices to perform their jobs, managing and securing these devices has become a mission-critical task.

IT managers are keenly aware of the need to ensure the security of their information from back-end to the frontlines. As it relates to mobility, they must protect against security breaches that might occur if mobile devices are misused, stolen or penetrated by cyber criminals. Safeguarding the integrity of data collected and maintained in the course of doing business is not just a good and necessary business practice, but in many cases it is required by industry or government regulations.

This challenge is not unlike the challenge IT departments faced when desktop PCs and later notebooks first appeared on the scene. It’s a bit more complicated, though, given the rapid mobile worker population growth rate in today’s enterprises (projected by some to exceed 70 percent of the US workforce by 2011). Add to that the growing diversity of mobile devices, applications and wireless connectivity that are in use, and the lack of mobile technology skill sets in many IT departments and you can understand the burden this challenge can place on companies.

MobiDM was launched to make it easy and affordable for organizations to address this critical challenge through the creation of a hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) mobile device management solution powered by Sybase iAnywhere’s Afaria device management and security product. MobiDM provides IT departments with ready-to-go, comprehensive management and security capabilities that ensure that mobile data and devices are up-to-date, reliable and secure.