10 Reasons You Don't Need MDM

FACE IT.

Didn’t we do 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, any time of day? Think of poor Starbucks and all the locations they would have to open. And the baristas ... those poor baristas whose fingers could rack up millions of blisters supporting all of these people trying to keep the economy flowing. Yes, we’ve all seen the statistics: smartphone usage topping a billion worldwide, and tablet sales in the millions purchased stratosphere. Blah, blah, blah. Bunk and marketing hype simply to make us all buy more product, right?

Unfortunately, there are 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 any device from any location. These people, often CEOs and other business leaders (clueless, huh?), will 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 these young upstarts, called Gen Y or Millennials, demand this mobile freedom (should we really be listening to a generation weaned on Barney? Pshawww). 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).

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