Mobile-device management, app wrapping, secure storage, file sharing, secure app containers — the enterprise mobility management (EMM) puzzle has a lot of pieces. Stitching them together is so painful that few companies have followed through. They’re wasting precious hours, losing money, and the time for that kind of behavior is over.

When it comes to EMM (and, particularly, the ever-present BYOD trend), there are plenty of success stories. For most businesses, however, it hasn’t delivered. Small businesses that actually need BYOD aren’t securing or managing anything, and while enterprises have spent millions of dollars on EMM software, most of it sits unused because making the pieces work together still proves difficult. The result? IT still the bad guy and no one is getting anything done.

Late last year I spoke with several CIOs and CISOs who are using a well-known EMM suite. Most were managing more than 30,000 devices in…