Five Steps to implement Mobility and their Impact on Your Enterprise

How about having a real-time access to your company’s data anywhere? Mobility makes it possible. Whether you are lounging at the beach or traveling on the train, you can readily access the data on your hand-held devices thanks to enterprise mobility solutions.

In today’s mobile-driven world, the workplace becomes free from any boundaries of office, desk, or even a laptop or PC. We witness a huge paradigm shift toward a mobile workforce. It is, therefore, necessary for the enterprises to implement mobility and get adapted to the changing work pattern.

As a leading enterprise IT solutions provider, we have a knack for integrating technological advancements while developing enterprise-grade and customized mobility solutions.

Here we discuss five core aspects of implementing mobility along with their impact on your company:

Establish a mobile strategy

As per IDC prediction, mobile workers will account for 72.3% of the US workforce by 2020. There is no exaggeration in mentioning that the number of mobile workers is steadily increasing worldwide, and in coming years, they can perform their duties as efficiently as their colleagues who sit in the office.

All you need to provide a flexible mobile or remote working environment to attract and retain mobile workers with advanced skill sets. What’s more, you need to define how would you address remotely-located clients? In a way, it is necessary to establish an effective mobile strategy to manage devices, apps, and software.

Give security top priority

While facilitating access to critical data to your employees, you need to give the utmost priority to data security. You must protect the system from any possible cyber attacks and prevent data theft or leaks. It is better to make your employees aware of vulnerabilities and best practices to maximize data security.

While establishing a mobile strategy, you should also consider safe and efficient mobile device management. On one hand, a well-defined mobility strategy can give more freedom to your employees, and on the other hand, it can help you mitigate the risks of security breaches.

These days, many MDM (Mobile Device Management) solutions are available to help your company organize the corporate data in a secure way. You can secure the mobile data with the help of VPN (Virtual Private Network). It is specifically useful when your employees use an unsecured wireless network. You can also set the access limits for employees in line with the company’s policies.

Remember, you need to keep both company data and the end user’s privacy in check for ensuring security.

Develop an application strategy

 You need to develop a mobile app strategy by considering various aspect including data security, productivity, your business model, and the like. Your application must comply with the mobility policies of your company. A cloud-based app enables your employees to perform office tasks from anywhere and anytime.

A customized enterprise app can streamline the complex processes and assists you to enhance the flexibility. Your remote workers can easily perform their tasks with the help of seamlessly working enterprise mobile application. In a way, it helps you increase efficiency and productivity of your staff. But then, you need to include all the necessary features to get the most of it.

Establish All-inclusive Mobile Architecture

Let’s face it! Your company cannot support all the devices, apps, software, and hardware. Therefore, you need to establish a policy to manage mobile devices in the same organization. This policy can be a part of the all-inclusive mobile architecture. It includes devices, necessary and available bandwidth, navigation methods and a pre-defined logic.

We can classify the devices into four major categories:

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)- It covers the employee-owned devices with the company software or apps.

COPE (Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled)- It includes company-owned devices that you give to your employees

COBO (Corporate Owned, Business Only)- It includes company-owned devices that are kept at the workplace and used for business purpose

Mixed- It includes a mixture of any two categories

You need to set the mobile policies in a way that you can readily manage the devices on the basis of different parameters like the role and position of employees, changing communication necessities, and the like.

After streamlining the business communication solutions, the IT department can better focus on glitches. In other words, you can free-up the IT after making the mobile architecture fully operational.

Improve the UX

What would your customers expect when you come up with a new app for your business? The answer is- An awesome user experience. Similarly, your employees also want better user experience with the app. You need to work on improving the UX when it comes to mobility apps.

An app with user-friendly features and functionality can enhance productivity and make your employees more innovative. It improves the value of your business by transforming your workplace. The customized mobile app enables your employees to work from anywhere with higher efficiency.

In a way, your employees can enjoy a work-life balance. Improved UX also motivates employees to finish their work either from home office, cafe, airport, or any other place where the Internet connection is available.

Finally, the enhanced UX can help employees reduce stress while meeting the deadlines. The corporate app with a user-friendly interface and a seamless performance across various devices is one of the most useful tools in your hand to drive user adoption and efficiency. You can get a higher RoI with a better UX from your app.

Conclusion

These are just the basic concepts you should keep in mind while implementing mobility at your workplace. However, by applying these concepts, you can establish a robust and user-friendly mobility network, which is capable of taking your business to the next level. You can get constructive and creative suggestions regarding mobility implementation at your workplace simply by approaching a renowned mobile application development company.

If you are still in two minds regarding mobility implementation at your enterprise, or you wish to know more about the business benefits of mobility, just contact us at sales@solutionanalysts.com. Our business consultants and mobility experts will offer you newer ways to improve collaboration, connectivity, and communication between your employees and management.