Apple rules the corporate world and it happened in a chain reaction – Part 3

“User management is key to a successful BYOD implementation,” said GroupLogic’s Anders Lofgren, “You have to manage the user in the same way that you do for other network resources.”

Lofgren’s words were true food for thought. If you manage the user, you’re doing exactly what you’ve been doing for years. User management, and by extension, group management gives you the same control and power that you’re looking for when dealing with user-owned devices. The ability to manage users and their devices, regardless of origin, gives the IT department back the control that they thought they were losing with this whole “BYOD thing.”

“Enterprise File Sharing – Solutions that work,” goes the GroupLogic tagline but what it implies is greater still. It means that, at least for your Apple devices, you have complete file and access compatibility between those user devices and your Windows servers.

So, really, there are no more legitimate excuses with vendors like GroupLogic, Good Technology and Mobile Iron that provide secure, compatible access for user-owned devices. And, since you’re managing the user and group, you don’t ever have to physically touch the device to allow or disallow access. Furthermore, using remote wipe services, lost, stolen or dismissed devices won’t carry corporate data nor will they even have access to the remote network.

If you’re still not convinced that the Appleization of the Enterprise is a wonderful thing, I suggest that you take these products for a test drive and see for yourself. Whether or not you like it, BYOD is happening at your company and it makes sense to manage it rather than to battle it.

Talk back and let me know what you think of the Appleization of the Enterprise. Are you ready for an Apple-centered, more user-oriented workplace? Or, do you plan to kick it old school for another decade or so?

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Jan 21 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.