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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5852145" data-attributes="member: 8835">I see what you're saying about Enterprise Practices, though that definition varies from company to company.Its really a matter of how far IT exercises control over the end users desktops. In some companies, that is very rigidly controlled, and thus I can see why such a company would want to exercise the same control over mobile devices.In other comanies, IT standards might cover a password strength policy and a standard issue anti-virus and a deployment mechanism for the standard Office apps.After that, each employee's job function might vary so much that rigid control interferes with departmental productivity.In other highly saavy tech companies (like the one I used to work for located in Northwest Houston), IT might have control of the peon computers of generic office workers.  But those were the minority.  It's hard to enforce a standard when 80% of the employees know how to build their own machine, bypass corporate NT group policies and install all the software they need off the corporate file shares.Ironically enough, Enterprise Practices really spells "Walled Garden" that I see bandied about as an invective against the Apple model.As to enabling IT control of iPads and other such devices, that too is ironic.  The PC changed the game by removing control from IT and their centralized computing MainFrames and enabling users to do stuff on their own.IT has since tricked users into giving up that power by invoking Enterprise Practices, Cloud Computing, Citrix and Terminal server models, etc.So users now bring in their own iPads and tablets.  Because they let users find their own tools to solve the business problems they want.Bear in mind, user control of their own personal machine was seldom about having the ability to write your own program or modify secret settings under /etc/somefile.conf in a cryptic format.  The most transformative application when the PC came out was the spreadsheet.  Giving the end user the ability to run his own reports and what-if scenarioes without needing a new custom report job, waiting in the job queue, having an IT chargeback.The solution for businesses lies within installing and securing their CUSTOM apps or access points to corporate resources, rather than taking full control of the device itself.  Not that there isn't a use for that as well, I find buying a bunch of employees a $500 iPad and then locking it down so it only runs 2 pre-installed apps is kind of a waste of money and a bit of an insult to your employees intelligence beyond the grunt labor force who aren't intelligent enough to use the iPad beyond the Corporate Job Function app that it came pre-installed with and you trained them for a week on.</blockquote>

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