Christian Kane is an Enterprise Mobility Management Research Analyst with Forrester Research, where he helps clients develop and improve their desktop and mobile strategy. His research spans mobile hardware, mobile operating systems, mobile device management solutions, and mobile applications.

Over the past few years, improvements in mobile devices, Wi-Fi, and cloud computing have made mobile point of sale (POS) solutions e ective and a ordable for businesses of all sizes. Tablets have emerged as the most popular platform for mobile POS solutions, and you may have already heard the buzz about them. There’s a reason for all the hullaballoo. In addition to integrating payments and making retail transactions more e cient than using a traditional electronic cash register (ECR), tablet POS solutions can provide robust management data. A tablet POS solution makes sense for many retailers, particularly if you’re looking to: • replace an ECR or want to have a mobile POS in place on opening day • unlock new pro t-making and cost-saving opportunities • expand your business • keep pace with ever-changing customer expectations Figuring out which tablet POS solution is the best for your business may seem like a huge challenge. But don’t worry. Taking the right approach, by using too

"Learn how Citrix Workspace enables a flexible workplace that helps your organization become productive, innovative, and attractive to top talent. In this eBook, you will learn how to: - Empower employees and teams anywhere, on any device - Simplify and improve both security and endpoint management - Adopt new technologies more quickly and effectively"

Don’t let your legacy devices hold you back. Watch these three exclusive 2018 webinars to learn how Zebra can help you and your organization modernize your warehouse. Webinar #1: The Age of Android in the Enterprise Zebra’s Kevin Lollock, Regional Product Manager, Mobile Computing OS and Developer Platforms will unpack the vast migration to Android™ and the opportunities available for your warehouse and distribution centers. Webinar #2: Modernize the Warehouse with Android Warehouses without Windows®? Mark Wheeler, Zebra’s Director of Supply Chain Solutions discusses the migration to Android devices and shares a vision of the warehouse of the future. Webinar #3: How to Start your OS Migration Zebra’s Ritesh Gupta, Lead for Zebra Learning Services simplifies the steps of migrating to Android devices, including key considerations for planning, management, support and security. Get free access to these Webinars today!

Cost-effective and fully automated device driver management for Microsoft SCCM with the Universal Imaging Utility System Deploy Plug-in. The UIUSD completely eliminates the need for SCCM admins to manage and package drivers.

The widespread use of mobile devices — smartphones and tablets — provides anytime, anywhere computing and communications resources for individuals worldwide. Both smartphones and tablets have made the transition from a personal resource, acquired and supported by consumers, to a professional resource, provided and supported by employers. For midsize firms around the world, those with 100–999 employees, mobile resources play a key role in improving workplace productivity as well as allowing greater flexibility in how and where work is done. New collaboration resources also allow staff in different locations to work together as efficiently and effectively as staff in the same office. The challenge for IT management is how best to coordinate the different collaborative and mobile resources and provide secure management of mobile devices and collaboration tools while enhancing workforce agility and productivity.

It’s more complex and expensive than ever to deliver seamless web experiences to any customer on any device, anywhere. Images are becoming the top obstacle to delivering high performing, responsive sites. View this infographic to see how you can solve the image management problem.

In recent years, it seems like technology is changing faster than it used to in decades past. As employees devour newer technologies such as smartphones, tablets, wearables, and other devices, and as they become more comfortable with solutions such as Dropbox and Skype, their demands on enterprise IT intensify. Plus, management and other decision makers are also increasing their demands on enterprise IT to provide more infrastructure with less cost and time. Unfortunately, enterprise IT organizations often don’t see much, if any, associated increases in funding to accomodate these demands.

The demands on IT today are staggering. Most organizations depend on their data to drive everything from product development and sales to communications, operations, and innovation. As a result, IT departments are charged with finding a way to bring new applications online quickly, accommodate massive data growth and complex data analysis, and make data available 24 hours a day, around the world, on any device. The traditional way to deliver data services is with separate infrastructure silos for various applications, processes, and locations, resulting in continually escalating costs for infrastructure and management. These infrastructure silos make it difficult to respond quickly to business opportunities and threats, cause productivity-hindering delays when you need to scale, and drive up operational costs.

There’s no denying that today’s workforce is “mobile.” Inspired by the ease and simplicity of their own personal devices, today’s workforce relies on a variety of tools to accomplish their business tasks — desktops, smart phones, tablets, laptops or other connected devices — each with varying operating systems.  The specific tasks they need to accomplish? That depends on the person. But it’s safe to say remotely logging in and out of legacy, desktop, mobile, software as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud applications is a given. And the devices on which they work? They could be owned by the enterprise or the end user, with varying levels of company oversight, security and management. The result? An overabundance of “flexibility” that leads to fundamental IT challenges of security and manageability.

Countless organizations are deploying digital workspace solutions to meet the demands of today’s mobile end users and the IT administrators that support them. The goal is to empower users to work from anywhere, on any device—mobile or laptop—at any time. However, architecting a secure, seamless, scalable digital workspace solution is not necessarily easy, which is where this paper helps. When developing your digital workspace, it is important to keep five key considerations in mind, both on the front end and the back end of your environment: Seamless, secure end-user access to applications and files Easy-to-use enterprise app store Management security Fully integrated infrastructure stack Agnostic platform with a broad ecosystem Download this white paper to see how to approach these major considerations, with detailed strategies, and provide recommendations for effectively addressing each one.

Countless organizations are deploying digital workspace solutions to meet the demands of today’s mobile end users and the IT administrators that support them. The goal is to empower users to work from anywhere, on any device—mobile or laptop—at any time. However, architecting a secure, seamless, scalable digital workspace solution is not necessarily easy, which is where this paper helps. When developing your digital workspace, it is important to keep five key considerations in mind, both on the front end and the back end of your environment: Seamless, secure end-user access to applications and files Easy-to-use enterprise app store Management security Fully integrated infrastructure stack Agnostic platform with a broad ecosystem Download this white paper to see how to approach these major considerations, with detailed strategies, and provide recommendations for effectively addressing each one.

Countless organizations are deploying digital workspace solutions to meet the demands of today’s mobile end users and the IT administrators that support them. The goal is to empower users to work from anywhere, on any device—mobile or laptop—at any time. However, architecting a secure, seamless, scalable digital workspace solution is not necessarily easy, which is where this paper helps. When developing your digital workspace, it is important to keep five key considerations in mind, both on the front end and the back end of your environment: Seamless, secure end-user access to applications and files Easy-to-use enterprise app store Management security Fully integrated infrastructure stack Agnostic platform with a broad ecosystem Download this white paper to see how to approach these major considerations, with detailed strategies, and provide recommendations for effectively addressing each one.

Countless organizations are deploying digital workspace solutions to meet the demands of today’s mobile end users and the IT administrators that support them. The goal is to empower users to work from anywhere, on any device—mobile or laptop—at any time. However, architecting a secure, seamless, scalable digital workspace solution is not necessarily easy, which is where this paper helps. When developing your digital workspace, it is important to keep five key considerations in mind, both on the front end and the back end of your environment: Seamless, secure end-user access to applications and files Easy-to-use enterprise app store Management security Fully integrated infrastructure stack Agnostic platform with a broad ecosystem Download this white paper to see how to approach these major considerations, with detailed strategies, and provide recommendations for effectively addressing each one.

Countless organizations are deploying digital workspace solutions to meet the demands of today’s mobile end users and the IT administrators that support them. The goal is to empower users to work from anywhere, on any device—mobile or laptop—at any time. However, architecting a secure, seamless, scalable digital workspace solution is not necessarily easy, which is where this paper helps. When developing your digital workspace, it is important to keep five key considerations in mind, both on the front end and the back end of your environment: Seamless, secure end-user access to applications and files Easy-to-use enterprise app store Management security Fully integrated infrastructure stack Agnostic platform with a broad ecosystem Download this white paper to see how to approach these major considerations, with detailed strategies, and provide recommendations for effectively addressing each one.

Whether you’re making plans with friends, ordering food, or setting the temperature on your thermostat, smartphone and tablet technology make everyday tasks faster and easier. New Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor-powered 14th generation Dell EMC PowerEdge™ servers with iDRAC Quick Sync 2 technology bring these automated advantages to the datacenter, too. IT datacenter administrators (ITDMs) can now connect to the new PowerEdge servers using the OpenManage™ Mobile app on their Android™ or iOS devices and perform a subset of routine, yet essential, server management tasks. Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

Cloud services are a pillar of a digital transformation, but they have also become a thorn in the side of many security architects. As data and applications that were once behind the enterprise firewall began roaming free—on smartphones, between Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, and in the cloud—the threat landscape expanded rapidly. Security architects scrambled to adjust their technologies, policies, and procedures. But just when they thought they had a handle on securing their cloud-connected enterprises, new business imperatives indicated that one cloud wasn’t enough. Modern enterprises operate in a multi-cloud world, where the threat landscape has reached a new level of complexity. Security teams are juggling a hodgepodge of policies, threat reports, and management tools. When each cloud operates in its own silo, the security architect has even more difficulty supporting the CISO or CIO with a coherent, defensible security posture.

Ready or not, the global mobility trend is forcing enterprises to enable a mobile workforce with business productivity tools on any device, regardless of the underlying operating system. As IT is quickly impacted by end-user technology decisions, enterprises can no longer ignore this reality, especially given the explosive global demand for mobile devices. This guide offers practical, step-by-step insight that can help any organization accelerate their journey to becoming a Mobile First enterprise by providing a detailed, best-practice deployment process and recommendations for finding the right enterprise mobility management (EMM) provider.

"VPNs were created for the networks and business environment of yesterday: Most employees worked in an office, devices were limited, enterprise architecture was far less complex, and attacks, in general, were considerably less sophisticated and frequent. What worked 20 years ago cannot be trusted today. Your VPN is cumbersome and time consuming from a management and performance perspective. But what you might not want to concede is that VPNs, by their very nature, pose a significant threat to enterprise security. Read this white paper to learn more about: The vulnerabilities and inefficiencies of traditional remote access -Why VPN elimination must happen now -The four advantages to eliminating your VPN -How a cloud framework for application access works -Next steps to implement a more secure access solution"

Employees are increasingly using bring-your-own devices (BYOD) to work and accessing corporate IT resources from home. Until now, management of BYOD within IT was piecemeal, with most organizations cob¬bling together solutions that included mobile device management software, unified access suites, security, and hardware. Read this technology brief to learn how Windows Server 2012 R2 takes the guesswork and integration out of BYOD security and administration, providing one point of control and management for IT organizations.

If you’ve noticed more employees accessing the corporate network using their personally owned mobile devices, you’re not alone. Many employees are boosting their productivity by using their smartphones and tablets at work. Gone are the days of corporate IT departments dictating the types of mobile devices that could access the network. Bring your own device (BYOD) policies, while increasing employee satisfaction and productivity, are straining corporate networks. This white paper describes the limitations of legacy networks, especially for supporting BYOD. Understanding these limitations can pave the way for a successful BYOD management policy for campus and branch networks.

With new technologies, new opportunities often emerge, especially in business. The advent of innovations, such as social media and mobile devices, is changing the ways businesses interact with customers and the ways in which customers desire to be engaged. Opportunities arising from the benefits of salesforce automation, business intelligence (BI), and customer relationship management (CRM) applications are providing new levels of insight, helping businesses acquire customers more efficiently and retain those customers longer. As a direct result, organizations that invest in better understanding potential customers are likely to see higher returns than those organizations that possess a more limited understanding of their customer base. Seeking the competitive advantage resulting from improved customer focus, IT organizations have increased investment in business intelligence and analytics and the underlying infrastructure to support those applications.

Learn how to achieve a better bring your own device policy for your organization and properly implement an integrated VPN, access control, and mobile device management solutions to deliver network security and BYOD productivity.

Learn how to properly empower your organization for mobile productivity and see how you can deploy and provision for this device-based access with improved security and management policies.

VPNs were created for the networks and business environment of yesterday: Most employees worked in an office, devices were limited, enterprise architecture was far less complex, and attacks, in general, were considerably less sophisticated and frequent. What worked 20 years ago cannot be trusted today. Your VPN is cumbersome and time consuming from a management and performance perspective. But what you might not want to concede is that VPNs, by their very nature, pose a significant threat to enterprise security. Read this white paper to learn more about: The vulnerabilities and inefficiencies of traditional remote access -Why VPN elimination must happen now -The four advantages to eliminating your VPN -How a cloud framework for application access works -Next steps to implement a more secure access solution