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+# carbon-device-mgt
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+WSO2 CONNECTED DEVICE MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS
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+WSO2 Connected Device Manager (WSO2 CDM) is a comprehensive platform that helps solve mobile computing challenges enterprises face today when dealing with both corporate owned, personally enabled (COPE) devices and employee owned devices as part of a bring your own device (BYOD) program.
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+Whether it is device provisioning, device configuration management, policy enforcement, mobile application management, device data security, or compliance monitoring, WSO2 CDM offers a single enterprise-grade platform to develop extensions for IOT related device types.