Staying Competitive in the 21st Century with Mobility as a Service
Posted 12/19/09
Cloud based mobility as a service wireless networks are poised to replace LAN based hardwired infrastructures as the new IT standard for businesses. Mobility as a service is shattering physical IT boundaries, and any company that hopes to stay competitive knows that it has to keep in step with start of the art IT developments or risk being left behind. This new paradigm also generates huge infrastructure maintenance costs by eliminating the need for physical IT hardware and provides companies with superior endpoint control features for its remote units.Mobility as a service capitalizes on new cloud based technology to provide a mobility platform for your remote workforce. You never have to worry about connectivity and security with mobility as a service, as this mobile platform gives workers immediate and reliable real time access to all their network applications and data as though they were physically in the office. Your company enjoys mobility as a service control over user endpoints, such as laptops and handhelds, and data to maintain company network policy compliance by those employees.
The world workforce is going global along with their employers. Employees out in the field now require immediate and around the clock access to their company networks from wherever they may be. Mobility as a service connects them to all the data and applications they need with no risk to network security. If their company does not provide them with a safe way to connect to the information they need, workers will find alternate ways to do so that may put the network and the company at risk. Head off trouble before it starts by putting a mobility as a service platform in place.
Do not forget that workers everywhere are placing more importance on a better work life balance. Attracting good talent in the 21st Century means offering employees choices in work environment; mobility as a service is the answer. Employer flexibility in allowing employees to work from home goes a long way toward improving morale, particularly in those workers with young children at home. Freedom to work from home means fewer missed work days spent watching sick children or transporting them to the doctor. Employers take comfort in the fact that they can monitor the activities of their remote workforce to confirm that their employees are actually putting in a full work day, regardless of how the hours are apportioned, and that they are in compliance with company network policies.