Home topics technology BYOD Devices Expert BYOD SMBs and the need to invest in mobility Guest Author November 25, 2015 ‘Mobility’ has been finding its way into companies both large and small since the 90’s, but the proliferation of smartphones and tablets has accelerated the adaptation of mobility features and services and has become a necessity for a business that wishes to remain competitive and productive. The definition of business mobility is constantly evolving as new technologies and trends are introduced. In the early 2000s, mobility meant having a mobile phone, and then it was about equipping staff with laptops (no matter how heavy and clunky). But no matter what era we are talking about, at its core, business mobility is about empowering employees to perform their tasks outside of what is deemed a their typical or traditional office environment. The mobility movement has accelerated as employees began to purchase their own smartphones and tablets and encouraged (if not pleaded) with their companies to integrate some of their basic work functions such as, business emails, calendars and access to company contacts into their personal devices. We now know this as BYOD. We are also seeing people wanting to bring their own apps and bring their own services Even businesses that were initially reluctant to embrace the mobility revolution are now encouraging employees to go mobile. They discovered that removing the constraints of being anchored to a desk in a traditional 9 to 5 environment resulted in an increase of employee