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COPYRIGHT 2007 Crain Communications, Inc.
Byline: Phil Carson
The enterprise, like any individual, has to decide what it wants out of mobility in general and a device in particular before making a series of decisions.
What are the needed applications? Should deployment be managed in-house or out-sourced? Should the enterprise buy devices in bulk, with across-the-board device-management measures? Or should a company whose workers need only voice and e-mail provide a short list of devices and policies and wing it?
"Any company that looks at mobility from a long-term, strategic perspective-as opposed to the ad-hoc, 'Wild West' thing that it's been-is looking at corporate-liable devices and plans, as well as what data is being accessed, when and by whom," said Kitty Weldon, an enterprise analyst with Current Analysis. "Even the network-access technology is examined, if you're dealing with Wi-Fi."
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