Benefits Of Legacy Application Mobility

It would be hard for companies to implement a policy against the use of cell phones while driving on business for many reasons. One big reason this would be difficult is because of the lack of control and regulation you have over the employees' vehicle or cell phone. The second big reason this would be difficult is because of the liability issue in implementing such a policy. If a policy were to be put in place it would need to be very specific and include different scenarios to make it clear to the employee what they should

Providing wireless access to the employees would be beneficial for the organization in several ways. Cellular phones, laptops and tablets are all mobile devices that an employee can take with them whether it is within the same building or away from the office. Allowing an employee to access the network through a digital device at any location would improve availability to information when needed. For example, a sales person is away from the office making connections with product companies and he needs the part number of the products they specifically use in the shop, he can search for the information he needs by logging into to the network, through a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, with his phone or tablet and pull those numbers. The sales person can also pull real time inventory reports that are accurate and up to

Mobile computing is growing at an extremely rapid rate and you can see it everywhere you go. You are probably doing it yourself multiple times a day and don’t even realize it. Phones, laptops, tablets, cloud storage and wireless networks that we use everyday are just a few elements of mobile computing. A survey listed by Bowles states that 26% of smartphone users makes them feel like they are being more productive than without them. (Bowles 2013) I can remember taking typing class in high school and now almost every school in America issues tablets to their students.

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Many issues have surfaced, including what legal access an employer has to information on a personally owned device. In a recent study, 60% of employers indicated that they currently allow employees to use their personal phones, tablets, or laptops to access company information, or conduct business from the device. In addition, 14% of the respondents indicated that they don’t currently allow such use, but plan to implement a plan to do so within the next year. This new trend, referred to as “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) blurs the distinction of what is acceptable monitoring by an employer. Upon review of the website PrivacyRights.org, an employer can do the following on an employee owned device: “Locking, disabling and data wiping, access to the device, access to phone records or contacts, access to social media or other account username and passwords, monitor GPS and location information, view web browsing history, view pictures, video, or other media, view personal emails, view chat and messaging histories, and limit the use of cloud services.” (Clearinghouse, 2014) To protect both the employee and the employer, it is vital that an employer develop a BYOD policy, which clearly outlines the ramifications of what the employer does and does not have access to. In doing so, if a dispute were to arise

Before this week’s discussion I had no idea of the term BYOD and when I find out what it meant, I immediately disagreed with the idea of allowing employees to bring their own device to work. Before I go on with the reason for my disagreement with this term or policy I would like to mention Bring your own device (BYOD) defined as an IT policy where employees are allowed or encouraged to use their personal mobile devices to work, increasingly, notebook computers to access the company’s data and systems. This policy allows employees four types of access which are mentioned as the following:

Human factors influence polices in the BYOD practice in the workplace because for the most part employees are comfortable and prefer using their own devices compared to company issued devices as they can often multitask between personal and business access. The use of mobile devices comes with the consequences of the device being stolen, lost and exposed to threats. The possibility of these devices falling in the wrong hands or stranger not authorized access to data could result to harmful software application being uploaded or downloaded which could infect the device and compromise the network.

Other types of risks could be the using of personal device at work. This principle is known as BYOD. BYOD is an IT policy where employees are allowed or encouraged to use their personal mobile device such as phones, tablets, and laptops to access enterprise data and systems. BYOD can expose a company network, and easily attract more attackers. Not only this kind of principle help the company, but it also can cause a serious security breach. Data theft is at high vulnerability when employees are using mobile devices, and particularly their own to share data, access company information, or neglect to change mobile passwords. It is important that a company that allows its employees to use their own devices to list BYOD in their risks list. To

The advantages of allowing employees to use their personal smartphones for work are that it would allow companies to enjoy all of the same benefits of a mobile workforce without spending their own money on unnecessary devices and mobile initiatives. Empowering employees to choose the best device to get their work done, including personally-owned laptops as well as smartphones and tablets, will allow employees to become more mobile and productive. The disadvantages of allowing employees to use their personal smartphones for work are that employees work with more than one type of mobile device and operating system. A significantly large amount of IT resources would have to be dedicated to managing and maintaining a large number of devices in an organization. This presents difficulties for companies to provide

As a first line of defense, many organizations enforce ActiveSync policies, preinstalled in most consumer mobile devices, to enforce password protection and remote wipe and lock. More sophisticated IT departments may request the installation of additional mobile device management software agents to extend corporate IT reach into any application and functionality of your device. While security and manageability are legitimate concerns for the company, most BYOD programs rely on IT tools that don’t make a clear separation between personal and corporate data and applications. As a result, in case of unauthorized access a real or presumed situation the whole content of the device is more or less likely to be deleted and the device will be unusable. In regards to privacy, from a legal standpoint the fact that the employee owns the device holds no bearing in the event of litigation. As mentioned earlier regarding discovery, the court may require forensic review of all devices in connection with the litigation. An employee participating in a company’s BYOD program may be asked to produce their personal devices for a third party examination. The employee will have to make any personal information stored in the device accessible. This also includes the history of websites visited; songs and movies download and played copies of financial

Employee interaction on all devices are relatively the same and have similar impact on all systems. Some companies are allowing you to bring your own device (BYOD) to work for an enhanced work experience and increased productivity. Some of the benefits from this are no tracking of daily productivity, the comfortability of having your own device, and lower costs to maintain company property. Depending on the size of your company BYOD could be extremely beneficial and allow the employees to take on much of the burden of debt to work at the company. The average mobile device cost approximately three hundred dollars and if you have anywhere from 10 to 20 employees that could raise the cost to about 500 dollars. Apple and windows users tend to be more familiar with their devices so it is easier to manipulate their business requirements as they need. Lastly, having the flexibility to utilize one device vice several saves a lot of discomfort whether on business or official travel. The ability to have your own dedicated

One of the top preference of distribution and warehousing companies is mobility. These businesses are integrating mobility with their legacy enterprise resource planning systems or they are implementing new cloud-based systems with built-in mobility features. Day by day, the world gets more mobile. Since capabilities of smartphone are increasing, mobility gets further into many places that unexpected. Nowadays, smartphones are widely used in hospitals so as to track patients. Mobility is no longer revolutionary, it’s expected; and it’s expected with ERP.

There are mobile applications for just about everything. There are “apps” for games, social networking, banking, shopping, web browsers, word processors, weather, GPS,

Mobile computing is technology that has enabled users to obtain internet services while being in a state of constant motion. Conventionally, internet could only be accessed only via Ethernet cable and users had to sit on one place in order to access internet. In this way, there existed no concept of taking work to a trip or connecting to world anytime. With the invention of mobile computing, users can take their work in their hands. One can now get internet service anywhere needed.

Mobile Computing is an umbrella term used to describe technologies that enable people to access network services anyplace, anytime, and anywhere. Ubiquitous computing and nomadic computing are synonymous