BYOD: New animal, new taming techniques

14.05.2012
Bottom Line

• BYOD won't save you money'

• Complete a device profiling before you come up with BYOD policies"

• Mobile apps developers must be familiar with consumer app trends

BYOD is nothing new, but now it's morphed into a different animal. When the Blackberry and similar devices made their initial appearance in enterprises, employee access to e-mails and corporate data was a top-down initiative.

Today, employees from different ranks request access to data and applications via their own devices. And sometimes those requests seem more like demands.