Although smartphones and tablet computers afford organizations productivity, flexibility and mobility, it's not without new levels of IT management and security complexity.

The trend of increased mobile device use and popularity raises for organizations new challenges and considerations to make: what are the policies for business use? Can employees use their personal devices? How can I effectively manage the environment? What tools exist to do so?

As mobile devices continue to grow in popularity and importance in the enterprise IT will be tasked with providing the same exacting standards found across the rest of the technology environment.

"Getting a better grip on mobile devices", a thought leadership white paper from IBM, looks at the challenges facing organizations dealing with mobile devices and the new paradigm in endpoint management it creates around security and mobile application management. It looks at what approaches to mobile device management exist and the emerging enterprise app store, as well as touching on IBM software solutions that can help manage the huge number of devices and multiple operating systems many organizations are faced with and an action plan to implementing an effective mobile device management strategy.