MDM Strategy & Implementation

Best Rugged Smartphones for Business Fleets in 2026: what IT teams should buy The best rugged smartphone for a business is not always the one with the highest drop rating or the thickest armor. For a single field worker, the spec sheet decides. For an organization equipping a team of ten, a hundred,... By Ionut Soare Aug 12, 2026

Best tablets for business fleets in 2026: what IT teams should buy The best tablet for business is rarely the one with the highest benchmark score. For a team buying a single device, the spec sheet is the deciding factor. For an organization deploying ten, a hundred, or a thousand tablets, the... By Radu Scarlat Aug 10, 2026

Windows Autopilot vs Traditional Imaging: Which Provisioning Model should IT use? Windows PC provisioning in 2026 is a three-model decision, not a two-model decision. The first model is Windows Autopilot classic, which has been Microsoft’s zero-touch enrollment story since 2017. The second is Windows Autopilot device preparation, a re-architected next-generation approach... By Vlad Bodea Jul 31, 2026

Apple Business Manager and MDM: How Automated Device Enrollment Works Apple Business Manager and an MDM sit on either side of every corporate Apple deployment. Apple Business Manager is the free portal that ties your organization to Apple: it holds the devices you own, the app licenses you buy, and... By Vlad Bodea Jul 27, 2026

MDM Compliance Reporting: What Auditors Actually Need from Device Management The typical MDM console shows dozens of dashboards. The typical auditor asks for a handful of specific artifacts. When those two do not match, the audit slows, the requests for information grow longer, and the exceptions are written into the... By Radu Scarlat Jul 24, 2026

Rugged device management mistakes that break field, warehouse, and utility operations Rugged device deployments break in predictable ways. The failures are almost never hardware surprises because rugged devices are engineered to withstand the abuse they take. The failures come from management decisions made months earlier: the wrong MDM chosen without OEM... By Radu Scarlat Jul 22, 2026

Enterprise App Store Best Practices for IT teams managing Device Fleets An enterprise app store is the curated catalog IT uses to publish approved apps to a managed device fleet. It runs through the Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform and the operating system’s own enterprise app-distribution mechanism, not through a public... By Radu Scarlat Jul 20, 2026

Device Lifecycle Management for Mobile Fleets: From Procurement to Retirement Every device an organization manages passes through the same six stages: planning, procurement, preparation, in-service management, refresh or repair, and retirement. The stages sound sequential and mostly are, but they overlap in practice, and each one has its own operational... By Vlad Bodea Jul 15, 2026

MDM Compliance: How MDM Supports HIPAA, CIPA, GDPR, CJIS, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2 MDM compliance is the alignment of Mobile Device Management (MDM) capabilities with the controls required by regulatory frameworks and industry standards. No compliance framework mandates MDM by name. All of them require controls that MDM provides: encryption enforcement, access controls,... By Victor Antiu May 27, 2026

Enterprise Web Filtering: A Complete Guide to Setting Up Content Filtering Across Your Device Fleet Enterprise web filtering for managed devices controls which websites and web categories managed devices can access. It is a device-level capability: the filter runs on the device itself, not on the network, which means it enforces on-campus, off-campus, on home... By Daniel Gherghescu May 25, 2026

MDM Enrollment Methods: Zero-Touch, QR Code, and Manual Enrollment Compared MDM enrollment is the process of registering a device with a Mobile Device Management platform so it can receive policies, apps, and security configurations. Every managed device must be enrolled before IT can configure, monitor, or secure it. The enrollment... By Daniel Gherghescu May 20, 2026

How Much Does MDM Cost? MDM Pricing Models, Hidden Costs, and Total Cost of Ownership Mobile Device Management (MDM) pricing ranges from $1 to $9 per device per month, depending on the vendor, included features, and deployment model. A 2022 study by Oxford Economics and Samsung found that organizations spend between $3.25 and $9 per... By Sonnet Gomes May 14, 2026