Workforce Mobility
While workers are increasingly mobile – today’s corporations are global. Distributed operations, departmental locations, regional facilities, off shore development centers, remote and branch offices and home offices – all drive data and workforce distribution. Increasingly, your workforce is everywhere. But teams and organizations must communicate, share content and collaborate to develop products, service customers, and drive new business.
As a result, corporate data needs to be accessible anywhere – on any device and in any corporate or non-corporate location. File sharing services can bridge this gap. However, it’s not enough to just enable access to the data from anywhere – the response to the user must be fast. If it’s not, users won’t use a remote access file sharing service. In the era of immediate gratification, users expect instant access to services and content. As a consequence, deployment times and ease of use for cloud services are of paramount importance. And if a corporate device is lost, business managers want assurance that corporate content is not compromised.
From an IT perspective, technical personnel in distributed locations are in short supply, making centralized IT controls essential for safe, secure access to information. A centralized IT role can control who has access to what content, can verify, audit, and monitor who accessed what when, and get insight into permissions, ultimately taking revocation action if needed.
Considering that the content which is shared and synchronized is highly duplicative, IT organizations must employ approaches based on storage efficiency to reduce costs. As IT is chartered with deployment and security, integration with existing authentication systems, integrity checking, compliance, encryption and remote data destruction are essential functions to achieve agile, yet secure access and control. Providing the right workforce mobility solution allows the company to not only mobilize data but mobilize its employees, individually and across teams.
