Thursday, June 7, 2012

Mobile Application Management (MAM) has Put MDM in its Place

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

The debate about the best tool set for enterprise mobility continues to rage between themobile application management (MAM) and mobile device management (MDM) camps.

MDM zealots ridicule MAM as a glorified app catalog and a security sieve, while MAM proponents say MDM's rigid and centralized control of all policies, user access, hardware/software and content sabotages the revolutionary benefits of enterprise mobility.

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We firmly believe that MAM is a superior approach for the management of a vast majority of mobile enterprise applications, that it has leapfrogged MDM as a systems management best practice for mobility, and -- importantly -- incorporated its most useful security capabilities. Read more here...






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