Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 WQA-00011 User Manual
Product codes
WQA-00011
Wipro Product Strategy & Architecture Practice
Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008
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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.
As part this analysis, the TCO Calculator was used to contrast the one and three year TCO for MDM and
RIM BES to manage six configuration scenarios ranging from 2,500 mobile devices up to 15,000 Mobile
devices in both Greenfield and Brownfield examples.
In both Greenfield and Brownfield examples, MDM was shown to have a significantly lower TCO than
RIM. In the Greenfield example, the MDM was approximately 40% lower than that RIM TCO for all
six configuration scenarios. In the Brownfield example, a Greenfield MDM deployment that
“capped and grew” an existing RIM deployment was shown to have a lower TCO resulting from
expanding the existing Brownfield RIM expansion. In fact, in the Brownfield example, the MDM TCO
was less than the costs to expand the RIM solution, even without considering the resulting increased
RIM management costs!
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.
As part this analysis, the TCO Calculator was used to contrast the one and three year TCO for MDM and
RIM BES to manage six configuration scenarios ranging from 2,500 mobile devices up to 15,000 Mobile
devices in both Greenfield and Brownfield examples.
In both Greenfield and Brownfield examples, MDM was shown to have a significantly lower TCO than
RIM. In the Greenfield example, the MDM was approximately 40% lower than that RIM TCO for all
six configuration scenarios. In the Brownfield example, a Greenfield MDM deployment that
“capped and grew” an existing RIM deployment was shown to have a lower TCO resulting from
expanding the existing Brownfield RIM expansion. In fact, in the Brownfield example, the MDM TCO
was less than the costs to expand the RIM solution, even without considering the resulting increased
RIM management costs!