Como tornar a empresa móvel: desafios e tendências da computação móvel

Abstract

With technological advancement, new features are constantly being developed that allow us numerous opportunities, mobility is one of them. Mobile access emerges as a major challenge for companies and introduces new habits in the way people work. With mobile devices like smartphones and tablets the computer becomes an ever-present tool, and allows the user to access corporate resources from anywhere and anytime. Mobility is a strong tendency for the corporate world and is now a natural movement. Million mobile devices are activated daily worldwide, and more and more users want to use these devices in their routine work which brings us to a movement known as BYOD (bring your own device) which in Portuguese means “Bring Your Own Device”. The aim of this work is to guide managers and professionals of information technology and communication (TIC) as the new technologies and trends. Featuring some standard infrastructure wireless IEEE 802.11, 802.16 and 802.20 wireless, through the cellular networks 2G, 3G and 4G LTE, describing how all this technology is integrated into the workplace, boosting their professional activities and providing improvements to the company and its users.