McGladrey: All 6,500 Employees With New Tablets

By Rob Starr, Content Manager Big4.com

McGladrey LLP, the nation’s fifth largest assurance, tax and accounting firm, recently rolled out tablets to all 6,500 of its employees. Getting the tablets ready for business use, however, was no easy task. McGladrey turned to longtime service provider AT&T to take charge of staging and kitting the 6,500 tablets, which involved unwrapping the devices, testing them, loading a set of business applications, repackaging and applying asset tags to each device. AT&T accomplished all of this in just 12 days – exceeding McGladrey’s initial target of two weeks .

Chris Hill, Vice President, Advanced Mobility Solutions, AT&T Business Solutions comments:

“McGladrey’s leaders wanted to mobilize all of their employees – not just a select few. To make this happen, they needed a provider that could do more than simply sell devices,” he said. “AT&T’s Mobility Solutions Services team specializes in guiding business through the entire process of going mobile – from consulting and design to solution configuration to full lifecycle management of the end to end solution.”

McGladrey also needed a way to keep track of the tablets and protect data on employees’ devices. The firm chose a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution from AT&T that allows its IT managers to remotely wipe information from lost or stolen devices, monitor and enforce security policies, gain insight into employees’ application downloads and more.