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2020 Guide for Picking an MDM

2020 Guide for Picking an MDM

Choosing a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution in 2020 is a far more complex issue than it was just a few years ago. The way organizations are using MDMs has become much more integrated with other parts of IT, Security and Operations. Read through our guide.
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2020 Managed Mobility Services Roadmap

2020 Managed Mobility Services Roadmap

Evolving isn’t easy — remember cloud adoption— but 2020 holds some significant guideposts in helping you on your Managed Mobility Services (MMS) transformation journey. Unified digital workspaces are engaging organizations to lead the charge toward more efficient, user friendly, and secure digital environments. Vox Mobile is perfectly positioned to help navigate your enterprise mobility management journey from start to finish.
2020-Managed-Mobility-Services-Roadmap.pdf
2020 Security Checklist: 5 Things you need to be working on

2020 Security Checklist: 5 Things you need to be working on

Mobile Thought Leaders (MTL) Research gathers insights from professionals focused on advancing or supporting mobile and digital transformation initiatives. MTL members are always interested in security but the nature of those conversations has evolved over the years from device security to content security and now on to a much more sophisticated stack of technologies and management models designed to address the constantly changing nature of the threats. The members are largely in agreement that organizations should be addressing the following five areas of security on an on-going basis. These five areas represent bundles of technologies and require cross functional guidance and expertise.
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2020 Top 10 Mobile Deployment Tips

2020 Top 10 Mobile Deployment Tips

Check out the top 10 device deployment tips – we’ve put together from our Mobile Thought Leader Community. The best part? Access to many examples of deployments – both successes and failures – so you don’t have to go into one of these projects like you are inventing the process. There are best practices for each step and well documented project plans and rationalized timelines so you can be clear with all your stakeholders on the requirements, projected outcomes and costs. Read through our guide.
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4 Business-Ending Risks of not Leveraging MDM Software

4 Business-Ending Risks of not Leveraging MDM Software

By now we all know the benefits that Mobile Device Management (MDM) tools provide, including optimizing the functionality and security of corporate mobile devices, as well as BYOD, and increasing efficiency, productivity, and the security of your corporate network. Still, many businesses hold back from leveraging MDM tools, citing the cost or capabilities of their in-house staff to monitor and manage the growing number of mobile business devices.
4-Business-Ending-Risks-of-not-Leveraging-MDM-Software-1.pdf
6 Signs You Have an M-gap Problem

6 Signs You Have an M-gap Problem

Are your mobility projects caught in the M-gap? Many organizations have experienced projects that fall short or out right fail when infrastructure interferes with the ability to innovate through mobility, collectively, what we refer to as the M-gap. By helping our clients identify their M-gap challenges, we’re able to develop a clear mobility blueprint to overcome these obstacles and execute on their visions. For many companies, Vox Mobile maintains the heartbeat of their entire mobile operations, eliminating costly complications to enable groundbreaking innovation and superior user experience.
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About Vox Mobile - More than an MDM Reseller.

About Vox Mobile - More than an MDM Reseller.

Vox Mobile has a deep history of expertise in AirWatch, Workspace ONE, identity management and mobility managed services. Your Single Source Provider for Software Licensing Acquisition, Adoption and Management: Vox Mobile is so much more than a reseller. In fact, Vox Mobile is VMware’s Largest Workspace ONE Managed Service Provider (MSP) capable of offering the most substantial license discounts available to your organization. And should your organization already have a licensing agreement in place, Vox Mobile’s managed mobility services address all aspects of managing your technology, driving enterprise adoption and reducing shelf-ware. Vox Mobile’s solutions are architected to ensure you’re getting the most out of your VMware solutions. Interested in further evaluating how VMware Workspace ONE can positively impact your business and modernize your workspace? Connect with a Vox Mobile VMware Specialist by calling us at (612) 213-2600 today.
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Achieve a Modern, Fully Digital Workspace Experience.

Achieve a Modern, Fully Digital Workspace Experience.

How VMware Workspace ONE + Vox Mobile Deliver an Easy and Productive Digital Work Experience It’s indisputable that enterprises are trying to achieve a more modern way of working. The traditional workspace is no longer an adequate environment for productivity in this era, and it hasn’t been since the mass adoption of mobile devices and tablets. Businesses are now highly aware of the fact that a more modern workspace is necessary in order to succeed. Now is the time to embrace today’s modern approach to work. Download our free e-Book below to discover how to modernize your workspace.
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BYOD Impact Research Study

BYOD Impact Research Study

From year to year, is BYOD flourishing or devolving? Are companies establishing effective policies so that BYOD is a productive and safe option for an organization and its employees? These are pressing questions given the pervasiveness of mobility in the business ecosphere and the pressure to improve user satisfaction. Read the latest MTL research report on BYOD to determine where you are at compared to that of your peers.
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Customer Story: How TravelTab Transformed the Traveler Experience.

Customer Story: How TravelTab Transformed the Traveler Experience.

TravelTab was challenged with how to scale its business to serve more markets and customers while optimizing traveler experiences. The Results. Vox Mobile Support + VMware Workspace ONE solution helped to: Simplify Mobile Device Deployment Provide Efficient Cloud Management Streamline App Delivery Automate Security Updates After partnering with Vox Mobile – for managed mobility services using Workspace ONE, TravelTab is now positioned as a mobility leader in the travel industry, well situated to capture new opportunities as the Internet of Things economy takes shape.
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Education Use Case: Mobilize Your Distance Learning Plan.

Education Use Case: Mobilize Your Distance Learning Plan.

Remote learning is quickly becoming a standard education practice for K-12 and higher education institutions across the globe. However, school districts have been struggling to meet the needs of students learning from home, especially those in underserved areas due to many families not having the right resources such as a computer or adequate access to telecommunications infrastructure.
Vox-Education-Use-Case-challenge-creating-remote-learning.pdf
Eliminate Mobility Management Headaches.

Eliminate Mobility Management Headaches.

Demands on mobile devices have never been greater, and those demands have been amplified by the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic. Enterprises have embraced mobility just as consumers have. However, the rapid expansion of mobile adoption strains IT’s ability to deploy, manage and maintain both company-owned and bring your own device (BYOD) assets. In this white paper we address the challenges of endpoint management and offers best practices in eliminating your pain points.
Vox-Eliminate-Mobility-Management-Headaches_final.pdf
End User Help Desk FAQ

End User Help Desk FAQ

Curious about the myriad of reasons someone needs technical support assistance for their smartphone or tablet? We broke them out for you into three common themes across our client base. While we uncovered the most common help desk trends, they only made up about 39% of our overall incidents. Learn about all of them in our Help Desk FAQ.
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Enterprise Mobility Management Fosters Better Patient Care

Enterprise Mobility Management Fosters Better Patient Care

In this paper, we’ll discuss how mobile devices have become vital tools for medical practices and hospitals in delivering better care for their patients—from check-in kiosks that diminish wait times to mobile devices and BYOD policies that enable providers to quickly and accurately collaborate and record important patient information. We’ll also point out how Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions are key in realizing all the benefits digital transformation can bring to providing the highest standard in patient care.
Vox-VMWare-Mobility-Fosters-Better-Patient-Care-WP.pdf
Enterprise Mobility Management in Hospitality

Enterprise Mobility Management in Hospitality

For business, pleasure, or both, guests expect a certain level of service during their hotel stays that parallels other services industries. The guest experience starts when they make their reservation, however, the hotel staff’s ability to influence that experience begins when the guest walks through the door and continues throughout their stay. In this white paper, we identify how mobile devices and enterprise mobility management (EMM) affect the guest hotel stay, both in person and behind the scenes, and empower an exceptional experience with each visit.
Vox-VMware-Hospitality-Mobility-elevates-star-rating-with-travelers.pdf
Enterprise Mobility Management in Restaurants and Takeout

Enterprise Mobility Management in Restaurants and Takeout

Restaurant owners have more than just staying on the cutting edge of technology on their minds when it comes to embracing mobile devices. With the influx of devices for customers in the dining room, servers and cooks in the kitchen, and delivery drivers on the road, mobile device management (MDM) is key to keeping the foodservice industry thriving. In this white paper, we take a look at how mobility use in the foodservice industry was transforming pre-pandemic and how that has shifted, making mobility more important than ever since COVID-19.
Vox-VMware-Restaurants-Mobility-delivers-exceptional-experience.pdf
Enterprise Mobility Management in Retail

Enterprise Mobility Management in Retail

For the retail industry, the customer experience is a top priority, and many retailers have allocated a huge part of their budgets to improve it. More and more retailers are deploying digital mobile devices in stores, like smartphones and tablets, to enhance customer engagement and increase sales by making shopping a smooth experience. In this white paper, Vox Mobile experts explore how mobile technology in the hands of sales associates and customers is helping stores of all kinds reimagine the customer retail experience.
Vox-VMware-Retail-EMM-makes-shopping-a-pleasure.pdf
Financial Services Bank on Mobility Management

Financial Services Bank on Mobility Management

In this paper, we’ll uncover how banks and credit unions are using mobile devices within their branches to improve the customer experience and reinvent value for brick-and-mortar and online. We’ll also discuss how financial institutions are incorporating enterprise mobility management solutions to streamline and reap the profitable rewards of digital transformation.
Vox-VMWare-Financial-Institutions-Bank-on-Mobility-WP.pdf
Food Service Use Case: Mobile Devices Improve Sales

Food Service Use Case: Mobile Devices Improve Sales

Like most in the foodservice industry, well-known casual chain restaurants had to change their mobility strategy, using their mobile devices in new ways to combat the challenges brought on by the pandemic. Read about how tablets assisted staff with call-ahead and online seating requests, as well as help monitor curbside and pickup orders.
Vox-Restaurant-Use-Case-adjusting-to-new-normal.pdf
Mobile Strategy Research Report (2017)

Mobile Strategy Research Report (2017)

In our third annual mobile strategy research study, Mobile Thought Leaders (MTL) and Vox Mobile explored the mobility ecosphere to learn where organizations fit, where they’re headed and what challenges and opportunities they’re encountering along the way. Read the full research report to see what the Mobile Thought Leader Community identified as the top 5 trends for 2017.
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Mobile Strategy Research Report (2018)

Mobile Strategy Research Report (2018)

In our fourth annual mobile strategy research study, Mobile Thought Leaders (MTL) and Vox Mobile explored the mobility ecosphere to learn where organizations fit, where they’re headed and what challenges and opportunities they’re encountering along the way. Read the full research report to see what the Mobile Thought Leader Community identified as the top 5 trends for 2018.
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Mobility Management Services Checklist

Mobility Management Services Checklist

Where does your organization fall when it comes to mobile readiness? A mobile management framework is essential in driving mobile success. Review the Complete Mobility Management Checklist to find out where you compare to that of your peers.
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Mobility Solutions Enhance Drug Safety in Pharma

Mobility Solutions Enhance Drug Safety in Pharma

In this paper, we’ll explore how mobile solutions have improved the efficacy of clinical research and drug trials—as well as increased operational efficiencies through digital transformation in drug production and distribution. We’ll also discuss how enterprise mobility management solutions are making it easy for the pharma industry to realize the benefits of mobility, without putting added burdens on their IT teams or users.
Vox-VMWare-Mobility-Solutions-Enhance-Drug-Safety-WP.pdf
Solutions Overview - Vox Mobile

Solutions Overview - Vox Mobile

Vox Mobile helps organizations build their mobile strategies, operationalize their mobile programs and support their mobile users.
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Top 10 Mobile Security Checklist

Top 10 Mobile Security Checklist

The number one concern of our Mobile Thought Leader members is always “Mobile Security.” We believe the biggest challenge IT organizations face is that the old security domain is a thing of the past. No longer are there just the clear delineations of strong gates, firewalls and locked down corporate-owned devices. The delicate balance of user experience and security is paramount in achieving better security to fully support the potential of mobility in delivering on an organization’s corporate business goals. This is new territory for many IT and security professionals. Download the 10 Critical Steps to a More Secure Mobile Environment.
Top_10_Mobile_Security_Checklist_2020.pdf
Top 10 Ways to Optimize EMM in Financial Services

Top 10 Ways to Optimize EMM in Financial Services

The financial services industry has had to reconsider its traditional business strategy, moving from being transaction-led and evolving to a more customer-centric business. Vox Mobile is helping financial institutions transform by leveraging the full capabilities of their enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions to bridge the gap between brick-and-mortar branches and providing a fully immersive financial experience.
Financial-Inst-Top-10-Ways-Bank-on-Vox-for-EMM-r1.pdf
Top 10 Ways to Optimize EMM in the Healthcare Industry

Top 10 Ways to Optimize EMM in the Healthcare Industry

The rapid evolution of corporate-owned mobile devices and BYOD as point-of-care tools creates a challenge for many healthcare organizations. Vox Mobile helps healthcare organizations get the most out of their enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions—from deployment and adoption through support they can count on—to make digital transformation pain free.
Healthcare-Top-10-Ways-Vox-Empowers-EMM.pdf
Top 10 Ways to Optimize EMM in the Pharma Industry

Top 10 Ways to Optimize EMM in the Pharma Industry

As the demand for more life-saving and life-enhancing medications increases, so does the competition for new discoveries and the drive to get to market first. Vox Mobile enables pharma companies to leverage the full capabilities of their enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions—from accelerating implementation and adoption to providing ongoing management so users always have the most up-to-date apps and tools.
Pharma-Supply-Chain-Top-10-Ways-Vox-Optimizes-EMM-r1.pdf
Top 6 Strengths of Digital Workplaces

Top 6 Strengths of Digital Workplaces

Deploying, managing, securing, and troubleshooting all of these devices have IT teams working overtime. With the surge of devices, mobile device management software (MDM) is a necessity for tech teams to stay on top of growing user demands for accessibility and ease, and business demands for enhanced security and support. Read about the top strengths of Digital Workspaces in the Enterprise.
Top-6-Strengths-of-VMWares-Workspace-ONE-Solution-1.pdf
Use Case: How EMM in Pharma Streamlined a Clinical Trial.

Use Case: How EMM in Pharma Streamlined a Clinical Trial.

A global pharmaceutical company was struggling to stay competitive in the development of new drugs to meet growing patient demand and getting those drugs to market first. Clinical trial feedback data collection was a major hurdle in their ability to gain FDA approval. Their mobile device management system was ill-equipped to optimally manage a magnitude of record-keeping mobile devices dispersed to patients throughout the globe. Read how an EMM solution streamlined their clinical trial process.
Vox-Pharma-Use-Case-Mulitiple-Encumbered-Get-to-Market.pdf
Use Case: Managed Mobile Devices in Healthcare

Use Case: Managed Mobile Devices in Healthcare

Healthcare organizations have struggled to keep up with the influx of patients during the coronavirus pandemic. This includes gathering vital information from their visitors and monitoring front-line healthcare workers’ temperatures via managed mobile devices. Many have needed new tablets procured and expedited quickly or expertise support of their device across their network, in order to provide care for in-person patients and also virtual care to remote patients.
Vox-COVID-Healthcare-Use-Case-Pandemic-makes-it-difficult-1.pdf
Use Case: Mobile Devices in Financial Services

Use Case: Mobile Devices in Financial Services

Even with self-service kiosks in their branches, a national financial institution was struggling to drive customer satisfaction - which was evident in long wait times to see a teller and longer transaction times. After conducting a customer satisfaction survey, the institution discovered that though most patrons liked the kiosks, they preferred to use an actual keyboard over a tablet. Read how they put that feedback into action.
Vox-Finance-Use-Case-MacBooks-Strain-Mobile-Device-Management.pdf
Use Case: Mobile Devices in Healthcare Improve Care.

Use Case: Mobile Devices in Healthcare Improve Care.

A leading health system struggled with managing and maintaining the variety of mobile bedside monitoring devices used by their nursing staff. Not only did the mobility management of 3 separate devices cause headaches for the IT team, but having to carry around these devices and juggling their use, made it extremely difficult for nurses to find quality time to interact with their patients and provide an attentive, caring experience. Read about their transformation.
Vox-Healthcare-Use-Case-Mulitiple-Devices-Weaken-ROI.pdf
Vox Case Study APDS

Vox Case Study APDS

APDS Partners with Vox Mobile, Delivering Breakthrough Innovation to America’s Incarcerated Population. APDS turned to Vox Mobile’s enterprise mobility management solutions to help architect and deliver its mobile offerings – from configuration, delivery and monitoring of devices to selection of the right Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution. In addition, APDS outsourced several critical functions to Vox, including: • Device configuration and tablet deployments • Client help desk support – both phone and email • Administration services – 24/7 monitoring of servers and devices
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Why Companies Fail At Mobile Initiatives

Why Companies Fail At Mobile Initiatives

Mobile innovation has redefined how successful businesses operate, compete and succeed. Once a “nice to have,” mobile technology is now considered a critical enabler for business innovation and growth. Every industry is being transformed by mobility, and the implications have been substantial. Download our white paper to learn why companies fail at mobile initiatives.
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Why is it so hard for IT and the Business to work together?

Why is it so hard for IT and the Business to work together?

The business is striving for growth and profit while IT gets tasked with limiting cost and risk. Mobile Thought Leaders have been discussing the inevitable problems that arise when Lines of Business or individual departments embark on mobile or digital transformation initiatives without the support or knowledge of the IT department. The reasons for these rogue projects are numerous and the complaints are not unfounded. MTL members that have made progress on Digital Transformation have also gotten to a better place with internal relationships.
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Industry leadership.

Mobile Thought Leaders (MTL).

Mobile Thought Leaders

Vox Mobile is also a founding partner of Mobile Thought Leaders (MTL), a global community of more than 2,000 IT and business professionals. MTL is a valuable opportunity for peer collaboration and to keep pace with emerging mobility best practices.