Improve device security, availability and cost-effectiveness

With the increasing proliferation of mobile devices, each requiring its own unique provisioning, configuration, and reporting requirements, businesses face enormous challenges ensuring consistency and control over connected devices. IT is responsible for purchasing, setting up, and maintaining mobile devices, including printers and other peripherals. IT must ensure that these devices deliver the highest availability so users can run their applications and business operations smoothly.

However, device management tasks can overburden IT departments, and they become even more difficult as the number of devices scale into the hundreds, or even thousands of units. The challenge grows as technology refreshes inject more varieties of products. Device administration can scope out of control if IT does not have a device management strategy and plan defined early in the deployment process. As a result, business operations can suffer from poor efficiencies, higher costs, and lost opportunities.

To ensure maximum up-time and optimal configuration, all the devices in workflows and processes must be smart, connected, and manageable, which also extends to mobile printers. Businesses require a solution that centralizes device management so IT can deliver consistent device configuration, higher availability, tighter security, and future-proofed scalability throughout the device lifecycle.

In this paper, Zebra® shows how a solid device management solution can provide consistency and visibility into device status to maximize up-time and business efficiencies. Ensuring visibility of all assets whether they are directly on premise or at remote locations is another key benefit—for both IT and finance. Doing so helps maximize productivity where the devices are used, streamlines inventory management and compliance operations, and helps to create a more agile enterprise.