Capterra Glossary
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) enables employees, business partners, and other people associated with an organization to use their own devices to access data and carry out business tasks. These devices typically include smartphones and tablets, and sometimes personal computers.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
SMBs might implement BYOD into their organizations to reduce expensive hardware and software licensing costs. These businesses, which typically have lower IT budgets than larger companies, don't have to invest in as many devices or maintain as much hardware.
Related Terms
- Synchronous
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Intranet
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Scalability
- Data Center
- Authorization
- Multitenancy