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I wish I could tell you that mobilising an enterprise was always easy. Like with most things worth doing, there are challenges to success. Now, I don't want to put you off mobility in any way - I did, however, want to group the tricks and traps into some sensible categories. Here are the challenges to enterprise mobility...

Huawei's Enterprise Business Group (EBG) is a $1.85bn organisation that operates internationally and whose portfolio extends from telepresence and a very mature contact center platform, through IP telephony systems and data center solutions, to BYOD solutions and GSM and LTE technologies. But as Huawei expands its market presence outside China, it is finding that it cannot necessarily be the sole provider of enterprise solutions...

Essentially, the MAP solution allows applications to be "wrapped" with a range of policies to enable secure access and provide DLP (data loss prevention). This means in a BYOD situation a wrapped corporate application with specific restrictions (such as communications, firewall settings, copy and paste restriction) can sit beside personal applications that enjoy their usual settings.

Dell Software’s sweet spot is the mid-enterprise market, with lower cost solutions that are relatively new to the market and can offer the latest technological developments without being encumbered with legacy systems to support. At Dell’s recent analyst day in San Francisco, mobility was the one of four pillars of Dell’s strategy. The others were cloud, Big Data, and security.

Lately, I’ve been talking to a number of companies looking for an Enterprise App Store strategy. These are companies that have moved beyond mobile device management. They realise that device management alone does not address the true benefits in the Consumerization of IT – that is, to empower users to become more productive than ever.

Michael Moss, talking about his new book Salt Sugar Fat, said something that struck a chord with me. He was talking about the science of creating food and something called the 'Bliss Factor...that perfect balance that will ensure that the products are a smash hit with consumers'. That's where I want to go with BYOD policy...

Are businesses truly prepared to adopt the most productive practices of high-performance ICT enabled work environments? In search of answers, Cisco commissioned independent research among IT decision makers in enterprise and SME organisations across the UK and Ireland -- to better understand how businesses are responding to macro trends in the marketplace.

Everywhere you looked there were vendors showing off their approaches to enterprise mobility management (EMM), highlighting the importance of mobility for businesses right now: the size of the demand is so big, and there are so many different approaches to EMM, that you could not possibly fit them all under one single (no matter how huge) roof.