Craig Henry Becker

Mobile innovation applications for the BYOD enterprise user

As employees began to bring their consumer mobile devices to the office, employees expected corporations to embrace or to provide solutions similar to consumer solutions they were used to on their smartphones. However, because of accountability and security concerns, many enterprises prefer employees use corporate alternatives to popular consumer apps. However, many of these expected enterprise alternatives to consumer solutions were not available to employees. In this paper, we discuss lessons learned during the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) transformation process leading to the rapid development and deployment of internal alternatives to consumer applications, as well as the introduction of technologies to reduce the cost brought on by a large influx of mobile devices connected to the enterprise. We also discuss the importance of a filtered approach to access content through the firewall into the enterprise arena as an alternative to the full virtual private network approach granted to PC devices.