Samsung, in partnership with ITWeb, is conducting an online Enterprise Mobility Survey during April to understand enterprise mobility strategies within South African organisations.
"This survey will help us understand more about the local enterprise mobility market, maturity levels of mobility deployments and readiness, and what requirements our customers have," says Paulo Ferreira, director of enterprise mobility at Samsung South Africa.
"Our intention is to identify the pain points and challenges, and to assist with our channel partners to offer more holistic solutions to our corporate customers."
Ferreira advises there are a number of steps that can be put in place to ensure the lifecycle of an organisation's enterprise mobility strategy is effective.
"Corporate IT departments should follow a few key steps, which include the planning of the infrastructure, device management as well as app and data security."
Checks and measures should be implemented at each of these points to determine a successful rollout and implementation.
"It's also critical to measure the success of these projects by involving the employees and garnering feedback from them."
According to Ferreira, there is a wealth of innovation around the areas of productivity and security within the enterprise mobility sphere.
"It is no surprise then that our focus is on AI and the VR/AR space, and biometric authentication with iris scanning and facial recognition as differentiators.
"It's accepted that smartphones and tablets will be supported categories in the enterprise. One area of consideration is determining which employees in the organisation require a mix of devices and which can get by using only one category of device.
"In terms of the newer emerging categories, it's important that organisations assess wearables being paired with smartphones and the impact this has on security and management."
Ferreira concludes: "By including these categories in their strategies, it will enable customers to guide employees on what's approved for corporate use so that this can be managed before it becomes a challenge. Customers should also monitor if any non-approved platforms are being used to access corporate data and apps."
Complete the survey here and you could win a Samsung Gear S3 Smartwatch.
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