There is no debating the fact that Enterprise Mobility has become imperative for present day businesses keeping in view the increasing demands of customers, suppliers and personnel who need updated real time information while on the move. However mobilizing the enterprise brings along certain challenges for the Organization, which need to be dealt effectively to derive maximum benefits of mobility.
The key challenges of Enterprise Mobility are:

• Supporting Diverse Mobile Devices: With platforms like Android, Blackberry, iOS, Symbian and others available it becomes a real challenge to revise or send updates for different versions of apps for so many devices.
• Security Issues: Due to increased access of corporate systems by personnel at offsite locations and a diverse range of mobile devices accessing data, it becomes a point of concern for the CIOs and the enterprise IT.
• Increased Costs: Implementing mobility for the enterprise doesn’t come cheap for any Organization. With increased costs of new mobile devices, telecom costs and integration costs, the CIOs face a severe task of managing expenditures even with tighter budgets.
• Integrating Mobile Applications with Enterprise Systems: With Organizations adopting mobility, there is a sudden surge in the development of apps and mobile technologies to be utilized by the mobile personnel. It becomes a daunting task for enterprise IT to support and integrate these applications with the existing IT infrastructure of the Organization.
• Controlling Use of Mobile Environment: With policies like BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and use of social networking sites like Facebook etc. by the employees, there comes an urgent need to put a check on which devices or apps the employees can use within the enterprise mobile domain.
• Personal use of Mobile Assets: With the boundary between work space and offsite locations becoming less visible, the employees are bound to use the corporate mobile devices or assets for personal use.
• Training the Workforce: With different versions of a single application and multiple applications for different functionalities, training a pool of employees with different aspects of a mobile environment might result in a huge overhead for the company.

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