Mobility Managed Services includes the IT and process management service needed for a company to acquire, provision and support smartphones, tablets and other field force devices.
These services are designed to support devices for corporations are liable and provide a level of control to companies that support them by accessing corporate resources and information.
Managed Mobility Services has existed for some time, but organizations have increasingly shifted responsibility[1] for logistics and management as the environments have become more diverse and updates more frequent.
Android fragmentation is sometimes cited as a driver of this growth as is the consumerization of IT, including the adoption of mobile devices by IT departments.
[2] Gartner includes the following categories of services: Gartner first officially produced research on MMS in 2011 with Critical Capabilities for Managed Mobility Services, 22 December 2011, G00225198 Analyst(s): Eric Goodness, Phillip Redman.