Concepts for the company's use of mobile devices

In more and more companies move mobile devices in the first place when it comes to further increase employee productivity. Finally, the processing power of smartphones is sufficient today to perform more complex enterprise applications. Most, however, it comes at the right app strategy.

Regardless of whether apps are provided for field service personnel or for academic staff, this development opens boosting productivity to place a lot of potential, even the most demanding applications and data to mobile devices of the user. Moreover, the idea of employees who are always online, extremely attractive for companies.
With all the positive aspects, however, need to be protected applications and content before an illegitimate use and dissemination. Two approaches have been established there to meet this challenge: the Mobile Device Management (MDM) with the control of the terminals used for corporate purposes and the Mobile Application Management (MAM) with policies for the use of applications. In both cases, these approaches focus ensuring the safety, the regulated access and distribution as well as the reliable closure of enterprise applications.

Makes integrated management systems for the future

LAN and WLAN can be implemented in companies often separated and managed. This has serious operational and safety-related disadvantages. Both areas should therefore be monitored and managed uniformly.

Let me sketch a fictitious scenario: When prototypical middle-engineering plant Schräuble & Co. with 2,000 employees, the users are dissatisfied with the services of IT. The networks do not function as they should. An important reason: It lacks a unified network management for LAN and WLAN.
Employees are mobile only limited features available, for example, they cannot partly access important business data, no faxing and printing. You also can not smoothly roam in the company, because the Wi-Fi radio shows again and again gaps. When switching between wired and wireless they need to re-authenticate each.

The company's management refers to security risks. A unified security and authorization architecture because there are not, which is why it is also prohibited to discontent of the workforce to use private mobile devices for business purposes. Guests get manually WLAN voucher issued on the IT cumbersome leads lists.

When the company buys a competitor who uses different network technology in wireless and specialized WLAN manufacturers to which the company has set the Wi-Fi in the material storage, is insolvent, the situation escalates: The support for the camp implemented products is no longer guaranteed, The IT administration, only a handful of employees, stated that their resources are exploited to the limit. A fundamentally different solution must ago, otherwise one could not guarantee anything.

Digital Transformation: IT in transition

As companies master change with new business models

Once again the IT prepares to revolutionize the industry. So far, companies put their IT systems in classical production and management a - the availability of fast and agile solutions now enables the creation of entirely new business models like Whatsapp or Uber.

The increasing digitalization provides companies but also in front of organizational challenges, such as the panel discussion on "Digital Transformation: How companies with new business models to master change" in Munich became clear.

Sensors measure the microclimate in vineyards

Here Dr. Carlo Velten led by analyst firm Crisp Research the example of a winery in the field. Some winemakers accessorise their vineyards with sensors that measure the microclimate. Based on the data collected, you can water and fertilizer control precisely and so maximize returns.

However Velten looks more the private sector as the driving force of the digital revolution. Fitness bands smart watches or intelligent garments are currently experiencing a boom. Therefore, the analyst in the lifestyle sector looks despite privacy concerns, the greatest willingness to share information.

Surprising developments, for example, in the automotive sector, sees Dr. John Liebig on the industry forward. The CEO of the SOA, Innovation Lab said, a few years ago no one saw Google in the automotive sector. Now the company is investing in autonomous driving.

From mobile shopping to digital customers

According to Economic, the Association of the Internet Economy, the e-commerce industry will be shaped in 2015 by pioneering changes.
Increased competition, new technologies and changes in buying behavior predicts the Eco Association for the current year. Prof. Dr. Georg Rainer Hofmann, head of the Eco-competence group e-commerce, is convinced: "Some of the aspects that already in 2014 been emerging as trends, to prevail definitively in the coming year"

The following developments come on online retailers, according to Eco:

Mobile Shopping: more and more in many countries informs itself mobile, search and browse the Internet with mobile devices. The number of actual online purchases and payment transactions directly via smartphone or tablet PC rather than on increasing continuously. The adaptation of online stores for mobile devices is mandatory for traders in 2015. With services and apps such as One Touch or PayPal Cash Cloud will make the industry's progress at the same time the "standardization" of mobile payment.

Thousands of US service stations unsecured on the Internet

The dangers of the total networking may soon get to feel many American motorists. Thousands petrol stations, mainly in the United States are connected via TCP/IP to the Internet unprotected.

The reports of the chief research officer of security firm Rapid7, HD Moore, in a blog post and refers to insider information from the industry. Around 5800 the so-called Automatic Tank Gauges (ATG) is controllable via the Internet without any detours and password protection and thus manipulates - 5300 of them in the US alone, at least three percent of all gas stations in the country.

Using ATG manufactured by Veeder-Root will be controlled and monitored the fuel tank almost all American stations and many other stations around the world. About a monitoring console operator levels, refueling operations, threatening leaks or environmental influences from the outside can control. Connected this ATG are serial interfaces, fax, modem or even TCP/IP. To access via the Internet to the monitoring console, use many station operators TCP/IP, mostly on TCP port 10001 - because password protection is not set by default, the systems often are therefore open and freely accessible on the Internet.