Enterprise Mobility Management is a holistic approach to managing a company’s mobile devices, applications, and data. EMM is designed to enable the secure and efficient use of mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets for enterprise applications. Components of EMM include mobile device management, mobile application management, and mobile information management.
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What is EMM (Enterprise Mobility Management)?
The abbreviation EMM stands for Enterprise Mobility Management. It is a holistic approach consisting of concepts, technologies, procedures, and guidelines that can be used to manage and control work with mobile devices, data, and applications. The goal is to ensure efficient and secure use of enterprise applications and resources while respecting user privacy.
An important component is the management of mobile end devices belonging to the company or the employee, such as smartphones, tablets, or notebooks. These functions are summarized under the term MDM (Mobile Device Management). EMM is supplemented by numerous other functions and solutions such as Mobile Application Management (MAM), Mobile Information Management (MIM) and Mobile Content Management (MCM).
In addition to the administration of end devices, the typical tasks of Enterprise Mobility Management are the administration of applications, application data, access rights, and access options. EMM ensures the enforcement of a company’s policies in dealing with mobile devices, data and applications.
There are numerous solutions available on the market for implementing enterprise mobility management. These are usually complex software solutions consisting of several individual components that can be operated via a central administration interface. They are operated on-premises, cloud-based, or in a hybrid of both.
What does Enterprise Mobility mean?
For a better understanding of EMM, first an explanation of the term Enterprise Mobility (EM). Enterprise mobility summarizes the alignment of corporate processes and IT according to the requirements of mobile working. Employees should be able to work efficiently, securely, and with high productivity comparable to stationary access from any location using mobile devices such as smartphones, notebooks, or tablets.
Corporate applications and data must be made available for mobile working. Cloud services can be used to deliver applications and data over the public Internet. Unauthorized access to internal or sensitive data in the cloud, during transfer, and on mobile devices must be prevented by appropriate measures.
Enterprise Mobility also includes the Bring your own Device (BYOD) concept. It enables the secure use of private end devices for business purposes.
The components of enterprise mobility management
Enterprise Mobility Management is a holistic solution that is made up of many individual components and merges or combines them in different ways depending on the product. Mobile Device Management (MDM) plays a central role within Enterprise Mobility Management.
Typical tasks of MDM are the central management of mobile devices, inventorying devices, defining and enforcing usage policies, protecting devices, monitoring and configuring mobile device communication interfaces, providing up-to-date operating systems, regularly backing up software and data, deleting or locking lost or stolen devices, logging user activity, and ensuring compliance with legal data protection guidelines and telecommunications secrecy.
In addition to MDM, enterprise mobility management typically includes the following other components:
- Mobile Application Management (MAM): provisioning of mobile applications (apps).
- Mobile Information Management (MIM): protection of corporate information in mobile application scenarios
- Mobile Content Management (MCM): Management of corporate resources such as file storage or sharing services and secure access to content
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