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City of Boroondara Mobile Device Management. Case Study Jim Papazoglou. Current Environment. The adoption of next-generation mobile technologies, such as smartphones , is rapidly driving users to embrace a more portable lifestyle.
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City of Boroondara Mobile Device Management Case Study Jim Papazoglou
Current Environment • The adoption of next-generation mobile technologies, such as smartphones, is rapidly driving users to embrace a more portable lifestyle. • These business-centric devices provide the workforce with more options and greater flexibility to stay informed, responsive and productive from any location. • The demands on IT to provide greater access to sensitive business data and applications is also growing. This further compounds the challenges of securing and managing this infrastructure.
IT Challenges • Mobile devices have created a number of new challenges and issues: • Protecting against malicious access when mobile devices are misplaced or stolen. • Enforcing corporate security and configuration policies. • Simplifying provisioning and activation without overwhelming. • Ensuring consistent management across mobile and non-mobile systems.
City of Boroondara Solution After reviewing various products with costs ranging from 8K – 30K we decided on a product called Airwatch. Reasons for this decision as follows: • Gartner positioned AirWatch as a leader based on an evaluation of completeness of vision and ability to execute. • Our maturity regarding these products is low so we are beginning at a lower base. • Cost, we got more “bang for our buck”.
Where are we at now? • Have implemented Airwatch and are piloting with small group. • Devices we are testing: • iPhone, iPad and Android. • What is our focus with this pilot: • Ease of management devices on our network. • Application deployment. • Security features.
Next steps • Feedback from pilot group. • Tweaking of system. • Deploy to councillors and open to whole organisation.