Reveal the hidden costs of BYOD

More and more employees want to work on their iPhone, iPad, or Android devices. CIOs may think this saves the company money, but this is not the case. What CIOs often see is not BYOD cost saving, but more cost. Below are the five hidden costs behind BYOD.

 

In this regard, Aberdeen analyst Hyoun Park said that enterprises only see the productivity of private devices and ignore their costs.

Mobile private devices can help CIOs jump out of the regular hardware purchase cycle, at least part of the cost can be offset.

Cisco reduced costs by 17%-22% from BYOD. Lance Perry, head of Cisco's IT department, said, "We don't have to pay for it. Employees are happier at work. Isn't that a good thing ?"

The fact is that Cisco is only an exception, not a rule. What CIOs often see is not BYOD cost saving, but more cost. Below are the five hidden costs behind BYOD.

 

Hidden cost 1: fixed monthly fee

Traditionally, CIOs do not include many mobile devices. However, with the development of BYOD, CIOs have to include these in their work scope, this means CIOs are likely to be unfamiliar with the cost structure of wireless fee management. Park said, CIOs did not see all BYOD.

A company can introduce a large number of smart phones and obtain the best after-sales services. However, BYOD does not provide such services. Of course, this is not the most important. The key lies in wireless services. If the company chooses to purchase its own mobile devices, in addition to excellent services, there will also be high-speed wireless services.

Aberdeen research shows that the company uses a self-purchased mobile device solution to spend about $60 per month on mobile phone bills and data services, while BYOD is $70.

 

Hidden cost 2: Reimbursement

After reading the above description, many CIOs may not think that BYOD is expensive, because as far as the previous survey results are concerned, compared with the employee's own private device, this is equivalent to spending only $10 per person per month on self-purchased mobile devices. As a result, CIOs can conclude that BYOD saves money, but not so.

According to Aberdeen, employees will reimburse wireless service bills every month for about $18 per order. As a result, the company's cost for BYOD is changed to $90 per person per month.

It is worth noting that employees may not only pay wireless service bills, but also pay other fees, which means the company pays more than $18 for this.

 

Hidden cost 3: Expenditure on security, management, and data loss

If a company introduces a large number of mobile devices, it can designProgramTo automatically deploy and manage mobile devices. In BYOD mode, employees only enter the numbers and mobile phone numbers of some private devices into the company system.

Aberdeen does not accurately calculate the cost, but Park says managing these private devices is a headache for enterprises.

Managing these private devices means CIOs need to introduce more mobile device management solutions and other software, or even a virtual (Virtual Private Network) layer, "management costs and security costs will be greatly increased," Park said. According to the avanade Report of the Technical Service Company, half of the companies reported security vulnerabilities due to BYOD.

 

Hidden cost 4: who pays for Technical Support

In the BYOD mode, employees who use mobile devices are responsible for solving the fault and the company cannot control the fault. When the fault occurs, they must be held accountable, when an employee gives up using private equipment, he still needs a lot of time to adjust the information to the company's equipment.

 

Hidden cost 5: multiple platforms

BYOD means more platform development applications and support, resulting in more application development costs.

 

Summary:

From this we can conclude that the BYOD mode is not cheap to deploy.

 

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