Enterprises Outsource Their Mobile Device Management (MDM)

The ongoing cost of “mobilizing” the workforce has been soaring but some interesting management solutions are helping to keep costs under control.

Mobile devices aren’t cheap, but IT staff along with the cost of wireless plans for cellular voice, data, and (increasingly) messaging are going through the roof.

Although mobile device management has been around for a while (Wavelink, AirBeam, SOTi, Afaria, and others), CloudSync has introduced a new, inexpensive solution for Enerprises to outsource their mobile device management and eliminate the need to hire IT staff. In addition, CloudSync provides tools for identifying cellular plans that are over- or under- used so that these plans can be optimized or dropped.

Decisionpoint Solutions is now providing complete mobility services to enterprises, including hardware sale or lease, maintenance, staging, updating, repair, spares pool etc. and the are using CloudSync to provide the mobile device management.

CloudSync is a hosted, large-scale, web-based solution which enables service providers to keep customer devices in separate account. It’s expandable so that thousands of mobile devices can be managed on the same server in one- or as many customer accounts as are needed.

In addition, CloudSync regularly pulls cellular voice, data, and messaging utilization data from each device and can provide mid-month reports on wireless utilization.

GPS tracking, low-battery warnings, remote control help desk, and over-the-air software provisioning are additional tools that CloudSync provides to keep mobile workers working and to keep the mobile devices turned on and functioning.

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CloudLocate GPS reduces location tracking costs by 50%

“CloudLocate GPS”, from CloudSync, Inc. is a Google-mapping console that anyone can access using a browser. At $6/month (undiscounted) it costs about half the expense of other GPS mapping solutions.

CloudLocate GPS routing in traffic

After CloudLocate GPS software is downloaded to a fleet of Windows Mobile devices, CloudLocate GPS tracks them all on the same map from an eye-in-the-sky point of view.

The good news is that CloudLocate’s  GPS tracking is very inexpensive, provides basic tracking, history, and dispatch services.  Enterprises wishing to cut costs or those who want to begin using GPS at a low cost may want to consider it.

Enterprises may also enjoy the ability to consolidate cell phone, GPS receiver, and rugged scanner with application into a single device (the rugged device).

The bad news for those wishing to track stolen vehicles location with GPS is that CloudLocate tracks only the Windows Mobile device, so can’t reliably be used for that purpose.

Note: The estimate of 50% may be too low in many cases, based on $6/month for CloudLocate. Competitive solutions range from $12 – $20/month for the software components. Also, Enterprises use CloudLocate to determine devices are using their cell plans (voice and data) or not.  Significant savings are realized when unused cell plans are dropped.