August 2011 article in Information Week. A New Approach For Mobile.
Great article for the IT department on the proliferation of smartphones and the impact of allowing employees to use their own device in the work place. The author lists eight items covering the life cycle management from an information technology perspective.
1. The Development Environment
2. Software Distribution
3. Maintenance, Patches, Upgrades
4. Security
5. User Support
6. Expense Management
7. Support for New Platforms
8. Your Mobility Policy
The article includes a reference mobility policy from The Enterprise Mobility Forum at informationweek.com/1307/emf.
From a Pervasive perspective, we would add to this to include the user experience, application performance, power management, device remote diagnostics, data integrity and the ability to limit the impact of a business application and its data by other applications on the smartphone.
Read the full article on Information Week’s Website.
