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The true benefit of embracing mobiles for maximising employee productivity is being threatened as organisations face the increased pressure to support multiple mobile platforms and accommodate employee liable devices. Best in class organisations are taking control of the full mobility lifecycle, and in doing so, are reducing complexity and cost, securing company data and optimising the productivity gains.

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You may have a fair idea as to what your annual spend on mobile bills is, but do you have a thorough understanding of what you are actually paying for? It is quite possible that 10% of your costs are unnecessary.

Payment for mobile bills so often gets signed off and accepted as being significant without further scrutiny, but according to the Gartner Group Telco billing can be as much as 10% inaccurate, and this is not the only place where you could be saving on mobile costs.

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The typical Smartphone in your organisation features as much storage as a laptop. Your employees have the ability to store, transfer and access gigabytes of personal and company data and are a huge liability if use and security is not actively managed.

Are employee-owned mobiles increasingly being connected to your systems? Do you have the assurance that a missing device can’t be exploited?

Data Security on Mobiles: Are You Really in Control?

Have you ever had an employee return from overseas with an unexpected large bill? How do you know that your mobile users are on the appropriate plans for their usage? And as mobile devices become more critical to your business efficiency, how much time and resource is it costing you to support your users with provisioning and technical support issues?

What is lack of control costing you?

In the last ten years, the number of mobile phones in business has tripled, and the outlook is that by 2012, 73 percent of the global workforce will be enterprise mobile users (Forrester Research, Inc. 2008). This trend of migrating employees to a single business extension device embraces the benefits of staff productivity, business efficiency, customer responsiveness, and has become a requirement to compete in today’s economic landscape.

What risks and costs could you avoid?