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System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 The Case for Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager Sponsored by: Microsoft Authored by: Wipro Product Strategy & Architecture Practice October 2008 The information contained in this white paper represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication.
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Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Background 4 Research Approach 4 Total Cost of Ownership Analysis 5 TCO Calculator Model and Data 5 TCO Example: MDM v. RIM BES 4.1 6 Infrastructure-related TCO Savings 7 Management-related TCO Savings 8 MDM Greenfield v.
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Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Executive Summary By year-end 2011, IDC expects nearly 75% of the U.S. workforce will be mobile. This whitepaper is written to help Technology Decision Makers (TDMs) understand how Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM) can help lower the complexity and cost of managing their organization’s mobile devices.
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Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Introduction This whitepaper is written to help Technology Decision Makers (TDMs) understand how Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM) can help lower the complexity and cost of managing their organization’s mobile devices. This whitepaper discusses the economic benefits of using MDM in terms of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and correlates the costs savings back to specific technical features or licensing characteristics.
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Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Total Cost of Ownership Analysis The MDM TCO Calculator estimates the capital and operational costs related to provisioning, managing and supporting mobile devices to remotely access corporate e-mail2 in “greenfield” and “brownfield” scenarios for both MDM and other commonly deployed mobile management suites, including RIM Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.1.
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Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 TCO Example: MDM v. RIM BES 4.1 Wipro used the TCO calculator to estimate and compare the 1 and 3 year lifecycle costs of deploying and supporting MDM to mange mobile access to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with a comparable RIM Blackberry 4.1 solution. In this example, each solution was used to support six mobile device deployments ranging from 2,500 to 15,000 mobile devices.
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Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Infrastructure-related TCO Savings Reductions in Infrastructure costs account for approximately 60% of the TCO savings and include reductions in software licensing fees, device maintenance and support fees, and server and storage costs. The majority of the infrastructure cost reductions is provided by the elimination of the mobile device maintenance and support fee, as shown in Figure 2.
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Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Management-related TCO Savings Survey results indicated that MDM administrative labor required to perform tasks such as device enrollment, provisioning, and maintenance is significantly lower than that required by competitive solutions. One of the IT Pros interviewed is a current MDM administrator and had previously been a RIM BES administrator.
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Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 MDM Greenfield v. RIM Brownfield Scenarios The TCO Calculator calculates the total cost of ownership by categorizing lifecycle costs as being either “Infrastructure” or “Management”. As previously discussed and depicted in Table 1, Infrastructure costs are comprised of software licensing fees, device management and support fees, and server and storage costs.
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Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Conclusion & Recommendations Microsoft’s MDM TCO was developed to help Technical Decision Makers and IT pros contrast the economic advantages of deploying MDM and competing products. The TCO Calculator results are based on publicly available pricing and configuration information, and operational metrics obtained from IT Pros from 100 North American corporations that manage 500 or more mobile devices.
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Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 About Wipro Product Strategy & Architecture Practice The Wipro Product Strategy & Architecture (PSA) practice is a division of Wipro Technologies, a global technology services division of Wipro Ltd. (NYSE-WIT). Wipro’s PSA practice has more than 12 years experience in researching, analyzing, and documenting the business value of technology solutions.