BYOD

BYOD

The challenge of BYOD is to attain the productivity and staff satisfaction benefits that BYOD can bring, while keeping enough control to protect your organisation's data and fulfil compliance requirements.

The provision of 'anytime, anywhere' access to your organisation's network introduces welcome work flexibility and raises productivity. It also requires careful thought around security, application architecture, data sovereignty and data integrity. 

BYOD can bring common benefits

• Increased staff productivity and innovation.
• Work flexibility.
• Higher job satisfaction.
• Improvements in efficiency due to being able to work faster on their own devices, in their own time and space.
• Reduction of property overheads due to remote working.
• Lower hardware costs. 

There is a flipside

• High entry cost.
• Data security concerns e.g. unreported loss of a personal smartphone or, company data on home computers.
• Greater asset, licence and application management overhead.
• Increased IT Support loading.

Many organisations duly benefit from BYOD and encourage its widespread adoption. Other organisations, due to the nature of their business, have consequently avoided it.

BYOD policy may incorporate cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM), an already large market with a choice of leading vendors. MDM's ability to manage company data on personal devices is welcome news to organisations with sensitive data. Regardless of your needs, there are particular vendor strengths that may benefit your business. 

Should you wish to explore BYOD and MDM, please talk to us. We are able to help you work through the benefits (and the flipside).