Managed Mobility Services

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Managed Mobility Services (MMS) is a term used by analysts and businesses to describe the outsourcing and managing services that many businesses provide.

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Mobility Managed Services includes the IT and process management service needed for a company to acquire, provision and support smartphones, tablets and other field force devices. These services are designed to support devices for corporations are liable and provide a level of control to companies that support them by accessing corporate resources and information.

Managed Mobility Services has existed for some time, but organizations have increasingly shifted responsibility [1] for logistics and management as the environments have become more diverse and updates more frequent. Android fragmentation is sometimes cited as a driver of this growth as is the consumerization of IT, including the adoption of mobile devices by IT departments. This accumulation of influences has been referred to as "The 3 V's": Volume (the number of devices and users involved); Variety (policy changes in order to fit changing standards) and Volatility (high rates of change that could threaten the business). [2]

Included service categories

Gartner includes the following categories of services:

History

Gartner first officially produced research on MMS in 2011 with Critical Capabilities for Managed Mobility Services, 22 December 2011, G00225198 Analyst(s): Eric Goodness, Phillip Redman. [3] [4]

Since then Gartner, Forrester Research, GigaOM [5] [6] and other analyst organizations have published research on these services, each with slight variations on what services are included.

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References

  1. Robbie Westacott. "The Managed Mobility Services Market Could Reach $11.05 Billion by 2019 by Robbie Westacott". Enterprisemobilityexchange.com. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  2. "What is 3Vs (volume, variety and velocity) ? - Definition from WhatIs.com". Whatis.techtarget.com. 2012-07-24. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  3. Gartner Critical Capabilities for Managed Mobility Services [ dead link ]
  4. Gartner Critical Capabilities for Managed Mobility Services PDF
  5. "Mobility Managed Services (MMS) - Gartner IT Glossary". Gartner.com. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  6. GigaOM Blog on MMS