"Mformation’s Enterprise Manager allows operators to work with enterprises to customize a device management environment that customers can access through an easy-to-use, intuitive user interface.
This operator/enterprise model meets the needs of CIOs, as uncovered in the Coleman Parkes survey. About 80 percent of all CIOs interviewed in Europe and the U.S. want to improve management of mobile devices, applications, and data to accelerate productivity. And more than 80 percent of U.S. CIOs believe the mobile operator should take the lead in providing device management services.
Mformation enables operators to offer an enterprise’s IT department with secure access to Enterprise Manager’s mobile device management (MDM) functionality as a value-added service, enabling the IT department to directly manage their own mobile devices and mobile data. This model works well for enterprises of all sizes, removing the need for IT departments to deploy, maintain and operate complicated device management technology, while giving them complete control of the mobile devices used by their employees and the mobile data that those devices contain."
related: Mformation Updates Carrier-Hosted Enterprise Mobile Device Management Product
"For the enterprise looking for MDM support, a carrier-hosted model provides the customary benefits of SaaS: low capital costs, immediate usability, operational costs that match growth, smooth scalability, and the domain expertise of the provider. But because Mformation's customer is first the carrier, not the enterprise, the latter will have to experience MDM through the eyes of the former. Mformation's offering talks of OMA, firmware updates, OTA protocols, and the benefits of being able to support rising data services and applications ARPU, all concepts foreign, or at least of little interest, to the enterprise.
Mformation fortunately acknowledges that it's not a one-stop mobility shop: it has partnered with others who can provide anti-virus, encryption, and VPN access. Ironically Mformation doesn't list any partners for what is acknowledgeably the current killer application: mobile email."
