Like PCs in the 80s, mobile devices are breeding like rabbits in enterprises. Beyond the obvious asset management challenge, these devices now come with separate price tags for all kinds of services - from voice to global roaming to navigation. As I wrote here, the TCO of the iPhone over 5 years could be a 5 digit budget number - most of it in carrier charges. Multiply that by an increasingly mobile workforce, not just in sales, and pretty soon you will see the term rogue spending replaced by nomadic computing.
So it was good to catch up with the folks from Visage which offers a SaaS product, MobilityCentral. It aims to help enterprises get a grip on the mobile madness - by individual or by group of individuals. While you can get slice and dice reports from the carriers, and you can hire telecom expense management firms to audit those bills, MobilityCentral allows for much more carrier-neutral, pervasive analytics of the mobile spend and for related policy management.
Dennis Howlett also has a write up here. Prices list at $ 5 per user a month, with volume discounts.
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