I heard someone out such views: think MDM why was dead, mobile application management (MAM) is the future trend, I agree with MAM is the future trend. I don't agree with, bloggers and analysts to absolute tone think MDM already dead. I is not only the main blog, I still day for enterprises to provide advisory services, and they deal with; I can assure you that so far, MDM isn't dead. But it in any one enterprise also have no a great success.
Let's call a spade a spade, MDM is an old-fashioned methods, are still trying to control mobile devices, lock mobile equipment for reasonable use, and so on. Now in this year, once you tell the user you hope they registered according to the facts, mobile devices to access the enterprise resources, but the premise is equipment by the IT department management, and IT department to remote erase equipment content, will find the user select exit immediately.
We live in the consumer for the king's such a s. IT department centralized management and control the days are long past. Today, the focus should be placed on management equipment, not all of the equipment, but stay in these equipment enterprise assets.
So, MDM is not dead. We're just in a transitional period. IT personnel is still not fully accept this fact: in mobile devices, they have lost to the staff. Many people will nod and say we understand, but in fact they are ten years ago the IT department.
The enterprise to MDM there is a reasonable request. I have come in contact with a customer want to continue to be distributed to the users mobile phone, and now want to release tablet PC. Customer want to completely control equipment, so can continue to management equipment. Customer persuaded management team, continue to devote the funds needed for this. In this case, the MDM is very effective.
But in most of my customers face in most cases, MDM system after bought, not never implementation, is only implemented a very basic function, like don't konw implementation.
In 2013, many enterprises will eventually take time to implement the MDM; We will see this scene: deployed MDM system quantity surge, but safety and registration requirements very loose. It will meet many security personnel to ensure that data leakage protection (DLP) safety requirements; Along with the MAM matures, can effectively connected to this technology.
I predict, in 2014 to 2015 this time, due to the IT department finally began to face and deal with the reality: to win control efforts proved of no avail, at the same time because users also finally began to face and deal with the fact that in order to use the enterprise resources, and help to pass any equipment for convenient access anytime and anywhere, some level of management is essential, MAM will quickly replace MDM.