Top Ten Reasons You Don’t Need Mobile Device Management (MDM)

martphones are a fad. Tablets? Simply an unruly smartphone that’s too smart for its own good. Who needs them?

Haven’t we done just fine all of these years without them and without all of this crazy untethered connectivity? And the idea of using smartphones and tablets for work, so users can be more mobile and flexible? Is that really such a good thing, all these people out there doing work wherever they go, virtually any time of day? We’ve all seen the statistics: smartphone usage topping a billion worldwide, and tablet sales in the millions purchased stratosphere. This is simply marketing hype to make us all buy more product, right?

Unfortunately, there may be those in your organization who buy into the hype, who believe that there are employees who want to use these new types of devices to be mobile, to actually do work on virtually any device on-the-go. These people, often CEOs and other business leaders, may try to convince you that your organization needs a way to support, sustain and grow this movement toward mobility.

They will tell you that mobility is part of a new way of doing business that will save the organization money and increase agility. That workers should be enabled – encouraged, even – to bring their own devices to work and to use those same devices for both business and personal activities. That the younger employees, sometimes called Gen Y or Millennials, may demand this mobile freedom. That you, as an IT professional or administrator, should put in place solutions that support these types of activities by coordinating mobile device management, security, policies, usability and scalability. They will tell you that you need to deploy a solution for mobile device management (MDM).