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Wipro Product Strategy & Architecture Practice
Managing Mobile Devices using System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008
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TCO Example: MDM v. RIM BES 4.1
Wipro used the TCO calculator to estimate and compare the 1 and 3 year lifecycle costs of deploying
and supporting MDM to mange mobile access to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with a comparable
RIM Blackberry 4.1 solution. In this example, each solution was used to support six mobile device
deployments ranging from 2,500 to 15,000 mobile devices. To simplify the analysis, the total number of
devices managed within each scenario did not increase during the 3 year period.
The TCO analysis includes all of the Infrastructure and Management costs associated with deploying
and managing each of the six deployment scenarios for 3 years. For the purposes of this analysis, Wipro
assumed the costs of the mobile devices, the monthly recurring service plans for the mobile devices,
and help desk support costs attributable MDM and RIM were equal.
The projected TCO comparisons for the MDM and RIM solutions for each of the six deployment
scenarios are shown in Figure 1 below. The MDM three year TCO was approximately 40% less than
the RIM TCO for all six deployment scenarios and 32% less in the one year TCO.
MDM has a lower TCO than RIM BES 4.1 because of the following factors:
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Reduction in software licensing costs
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Elimination of annual per-device maintenance costs
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Reduction in server and storage requirements (including facilities costs)
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Reduction in mobile device planning, enrollment and provisioning labor
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Reduction in mobile device management and administrative labor
2,500 2,5005,000 5,0007,500 7,50010,000 10,00012,500 12,50015,000 15,000
$8,000,000
$7,000,000
$6,000,000
$5,000,000
$4,000,000
$3,000,000
$2,000,000
$1,000,000
$0
$8,000,000
$7,000,000
$6,000,000
$5,000,000
$4,000,000
$3,000,000
$2,000,000
$1,000,000
$0
Projected 1 Year Total Cost of Ownership
Projected 3 Year Total Cost of Ownership
FIGURE 1. TCO for MDM and RIM BES 4.1 Solutions over One (1) and Three (3) Years
Total Cost of Ownership: MDM vs. RIM
MDM
Black
berry
MDM
Black
berry
Number of Mobile Devices Supported Number of Mobile Devices Supported