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Security and Costs Keys to Mobility
Security is a key concern for mobile enterprises, and unfortunately many CIOs feel that security issues often come in the way of doing real-time synchronization of data among multiple mobile devices in organizations. The solution to this apparent paradox depends on the applications you want to design and how you define the architecture of these applications, as well as what are the kind of data that you want to synchronize between the remote user and the corporate users of the central location.
Security being a larger issue for the mobile worker was inevitably the most important point of panel discussions at the event. Deliberating on this, Vijay Subramanian, senior manager, Information Risk Management, Risk Advisory Practices, KPMG India remarked, "In the mobility security aspect, people are often the weakest links only because security policies cannot be consistently applied to people. This has to do more with the people's ability to absorb policies. Awareness has to be the key and the amount of training that you need to provide to user is how you make sure your device is physically secured wherever you are."
The issue of cost of course is another of the fundamental concerns in mobility; it is just not the purchase costs of the devices but a whole range of things including what is the existing install base, which is typically low end handsets, which is there with the bulk of the bills cost, and so on.
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| (L-R) Harinder Singh, asst VP, Business Practice, CE Info Systems; Vijay Subramanian, sr manager, Information Risk Management, Risk Advisory Practices, KPMG India; Zameer Syed, CIO, Mahindra Holidays with Prasanto K Roy, president, BMG, CyberMedia at Chennai |
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(L-R) Maneesh Jain, sales head, India, Value First; Rajiv Gerela, CIO, Wipro BPO; Alok Kumar, VP, IT, Reliance Industries; Rajeev Sehgal, GM, Airtel Enterprise Services (Mobility), Prasanto K Roy, president, CyberMedia; Sunil Kapoor, director, Central Buying, Fortis Healthcare; Kunal Pande, Sr manager, KPMG; Harinder Singh, Asst. VP, Business Practice, CE Info Systems; Amit Phadnis, CEO, Symbol Technologies & Atul Chitnis, Sr VP, Geodesic Information Systems at Mumbai |
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| (L-R) Parijat Chakraborty, GM, Research, IDC India; Vijay Shukla, country head, ValueFirst; AK Bhargava, GM, IT, MTNL; Prasanto K Roy, president, BMG, CyberMedia; Rakesh Verma, MD, Map My India; and Akhilesh Tuteja, executive director, KPMG at Delhi |
According to Vish Bajaj of ValueFirst, "In the West, the operators are converting the recurring costs of enterprises from a capex to an opex model. Meaning as a CIO for example, I don't have to worry about recurring 2,000 devices. I simply go to the operator and do a monthly rental. I buy a sales force application and pay monthly along with my voice rental. I pay for those application rentals and that model encourages the businesses to adopt mobile applications, but I have not seen that kind of thing happening in India."
The industry is actually embracing mobility, there is really no limit to that and no matter what segment we talk to. They have unique applications and unique needs, from people in manufacturing and finance, healthcare and education, and so on...
Manogyata Narayan
manogyatan@cybermedia.co.in
Source: Dataquest
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