Mobility introduces innate concerns on implementation level for IT departments to combat: Mobile devices can access corporate data from different locations worldwide all day every day and mobiles have multiple platforms, operating systems, and versions fragmenting their market. However, mobility is an indispensable component of gaining benefits over competitors both as an employer, and a business, in the today’s business world. To have a successfully implement mobility in enterprises, IT admins need to must plan for the data security and to stay compliant while mobile developers must build applications that employees want to use.

Here’s a list of five enterprise mobility issues, their impact on an organization, and suggestions for the most effective ways to address and overcome those issues.

Mobile App Strategy

Every enterprise should be attempting to shape an understanding of how to leverage mobile technology to improve their business operations. An effective, forward-thinking and robust mobile strategy ensures applications that bring value to the business. It involves crafting portfolio that includes apps to meet the goals of every mobile initiative as well as the overall business objectives of enterprises. It will help decision makers to finalize which mobile application initiatives can add the most value.

Next, if enterprises plan to develop mobile apps in-house, they must choose the right and standardized tools to make the support, training and updates pretty easier. If enterprises don’t have sufficient and reliable resources, then they should turn to third-party developers.

Above all, there should be an establish standards and governance for app development and usage across the company. With a set of standards, an enterprise can build secure applications while measuring the app performance.

Once applications are deployed throughout the enterprise, it is then crucial that they can be rightly hosted and maintained by the IT department. Crafting mobile applications without considering their complete lifecycle and the related support turn into a pain point down the road.

Enterprises need to have a dynamic strategy that eventually focuses on present opportunities and considers scalability to maximize the potential of mobility for them.

Mobile Data Security

Mobile security is the highest priority for most of the enterprise mobility implementers. Instilling the adequate security measures puts enterprises into a wider spectrum of challenges.

To handle security challenges, appropriate authentication needs to be in place across all mobile channels to access to the organization’s network controlled at the suitable levels while managing different user identities in different cases. Apps should also prevent any sort of data leakage when being used on different personal devices. Use of unauthorized applications, email & file sharing and other concerns makes it crucial for the IT leaders to maintain the proficiency of protected mobile channels to avoid the security measures from hampering productivity or satisfaction levels of employees.

Secure mobile applications can go a long way towards preventing data loss – mainly by encrypting enterprise data and seceding it from any type of personal assets on a mobile device. Users’ limit and control can be set by admins to ensure no data is transferred outside the container.

Ensuring secure networks with measures of protection requires authentication of enterprise apps and reinforcing some form of agile device management solution.