We are going to communicate in the next few days a Corporate IT Update regarding extension of mobility platform.
Based on this communication we are going to allow different type of brands based on three different mobile technologies (Android, iOS, Windows 10)
The new concept model will have a support based on “apps” we will allow making more flexible the choice of hardware you want to use on mobile.
We will also allow to have people using their own device to connect to our services based on a small enterprise activation to execute on the mobile phone to keep high the security.
We are indicating suggested pricing in the range of 400eur (keeping for 2 years) for buying device or 50 eur monthly fee (device rent + national data and phone traffic package).
We will provide on our sharepoint portal minimal specs for the devices. These specs are required to be respected to be able to use the device properly over 2 years lifetime.
On the mobile market the evolution is still ongoing. I’m personally not recognizing a special added value from one brand vs another in terms of usage justifying higher costs devices.
In the computers market, instead, we decided over last few years to invest in higher hardware specs giving us 4-5 years of reliable/high quality computers we use over the entire day heavily.
My suggestion is to stay on an acceptable price as indicated for the mobile phones area.
Windows Mobile 10 is the next evolution we are fully supporting. This is also showing interesting integration with the new Windows 10 Desktop platform we will rollout from end of the year.
Notes:
• I’m thinking to setup a “channel” to communicate you news and insights on a more regular base and listen your feedbacks. In the meanwhile I’m just using emails on this purpose.
• I’m planning to organize some training for users on different technologies. So far I heard back about basic trainings for Sharepoint, Ticket System, Onedrive (still not yet fully released). At the moment we started only with one subsidiary to have remote regular skype for business sessions. I’m focusing to extend it over the upcoming weeks.
Feel free to come back to me for any question/doubt.