Most CIOs in these industries want nothing more than to help their line-of-business colleagues uncover new opportunities for growth.
As a starting point, consider the issues in the following list. It’s derived from third-party research and best practices. While not exhaustive, it covers the critical areas you’ll need to think through as you arrive at a decision.
You may also want to review our CIO’s Guide to EMM, which addresses the same topics, and others, in more detail.
In many ways, those needs appear to be at odds. Users want to get more done on the move, with less interference from administrators. IT, on the other hand, has to deal with incredibly complex security concerns, from the latest mobile malware to how to enable BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) safely.
As enterprises mobilize business processes, more and more sensitive data passes through and resides on mobile devices.
Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) is top of mind for most CIOs today, not just because of BYOD and COPE (Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled), but also because of the clear opportunity that mobility presents to boost productivity, customer engagement, job satisfaction and more.
With the increasing acceptance of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in the enterprise, it’smore important than ever for your support partner to effectively cover your entire mobile environment, across all platforms. And it’s critical to select a strategic partner who will be there to support you before your deployment, while it’s underway and long afterward.
Another breach. Another hack. Another brand struggling to minimize the damage. You hope it never happens on your watch. But hope isn’t enough, so you work hard to make sure. And yet those nagging questions keep re-surfacing: Have we done everything we can? Where’s the weak link in our chain? What’s the worst that could happen – and will it?
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In “Hybrid IT: Best of All Worlds,” you’ll learn why this situation is leading many IT decision-makers to re-evaluate and re-imagine their core infrastructure. And, as a result, they’re outsourcing a growing proportion of it, utilizing a hybrid array of different approaches – such as data center colocation, managed services and cloud solutions. This allows decision-makers to focus more of their resources on delivering business applications – not managing the day-to-day operations of data centers.
To effectively serve the financial services industry, Scrivantage has to be up and running 24/7 and meet a rigorous set of requirements. Their need for scalable IT infrastructure that is always secure, reliable and available is imperative to meeting their customer’s demands.
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