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>> PRESTON HARRIS: By 2016, nearly 70% of employees will be using smartphones for some
or part of their work.
How can the IT team keep up? And not just with smartphones, but with all matter of mobile
devices.
Well, that's why I'm talking to you today.
I'm Preston Harris, manager of the mobility team at CDW.
We're going to dive into the planning that's required when your organization takes on enterprise
mobility.
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>> CHARLIE BRICE: We've been looking at mobility for many, many years now and trying to determine
the best way to deploy at our company.
>> MATTHEW BYRTUS: In 2010, the first iPad was released, and the chief operating officer
and I sat down and we said, This is a transformative device for our industry.
And we started building the infrastructure and working on the plans for what we were
going to need to be able to deploy these in the field.
>> GARY CAPPA: We keep buildings safe, so it's really our job to make sure that when
architects and engineers design structures, that when they build it, that all those little
lines on the piece of paper end up being pieces of structure in a building.
80% of our revenue comes from people out in the field looking at things and writing their
observations and recording those observations.
>> JOE WOODS: Because of the diversity of platforms, the need for security, the need
for applications, there is a lot of question about, how do I start? How do I proceed? What
should I do?
>> MICHELLE NICHOLS: I think it's important to bring the key stakeholders from the organization
together.
Obviously, IT needs to be involved, but you also want to think about maybe, you know,
the sales organization or operations.
Think about those folks within your company that are all about mobile. They get it, they
understand it. And then find out what it is that they think they need to be successful
with mobile devices.
>> CHARLIE BRICE: Planning and vision is important to make sure that you don't work at cross
purposes of all the different areas of the company.
>> MICHELLE NICHOLS: Planning is critical, regardless of whether you're allowing people
to bring their own devices to work or you're still buying those devices through the organization.
>> JACK ZINKIEWICZ: There's three key fundamental planning components.
The first one really centers around data, what type of data they would like to access
on the devices.
At the same time, think about mobile device policy, which could be things like GPS, and
how to integrate those factors, allowing some of those other smartphone features to either
be enabled or disabled.
But also roadmaps. So figuring out exactly how you'd want to roll this out into your
current environment.
If you were to release all of the devices at the same time, it could wreak havoc on
your current infrastructure.
>> MATTHEW BYRTUS: When we decided to tackle mobility, we approached CDW and asked, "So
what are the things we need to be aware of? How can we better utilize those services,
being a small IT department? What can we use from CDW's services to be able to help us
through this?"
>> GARY CAPPA: It's hard to say where this road is going to lead us because technology
is continuing to evolve.
Having partners like CDW has allowed us to make this a breakthrough in our organization.
>> PRESTON HARRIS: Ready to jump into planning? Learn more at CDW.com/Mobility.
We're ready when you are.
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