Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Martin Thoma
3 min readOct 27, 2024
An MDM system administrates mobile devices like phones and laptops. Image created by Martin Thoma via ChatGPT

Mobile devices are laptops, tablets, and smarphones. The issue with mobile devices is that they get lost if you have enough employees/devices. You also cannot easily physically access them when you need to upgrade software.

Mobile device Management (MDM) systems allow you to do that:

  • Install/upgrade/delete Software and configuration remotely
  • Block a device or delete data remotely in case the device gets lost

What to look for

First and easiest to check: Does the MDM solution support all device types/operating systems you want to manage? Android and iOS phones and tablets should likely be covered. Maybe you still have a Windows phone? Do you have Linux laptops that should also be covered? Anything more exotic?

Core actions you want to do might differ, but I’d say:

  • Onboard/offboard devices
  • Install / upgrade / delete software
  • Sync data
  • Lock or even wipe the device
  • Have a dashboard with when a device was last connected and which software (maybe even data) it had at this point.

User Experience (UX): How does the onboarding/offboarding process for a new device work? How easily can you find the relevant…

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Martin Thoma
Martin Thoma

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