An article on the challenges faced by Enterprises on the mobility space.

1. Enterprise Mobility – Factors to be considered
Mobility remains the top priority for most of the enterprises. Enterprises want to enable mobile work force in order to increase their employee
productivity and thereby ensure smooth operations. Also enterprises are looking to connect to customers through mobility. Market analysis firm
Gartner in its report is optimistic in forecasting that 25 percent of enterprises will have their own individual app store by the year 2017.
While the applications are being mobile enabled, there are various aspects that an enterprise should consider. In other words, the solution should
cover these elements that are necessary in their journey to success – Value, People, Technology and Competitive Advantage.
Business value
The decision to go mobile should be business value driven. The value that an enterprise might be looking at would be
To improve employee productivity through effective collaboration
To gain real time visibility into time-sensitive data to identify areas of optimization and thereby improve sales
To increase time-to-market and to generate more revenue through existing products or by acquiring new customers.
To achieve this, apps that need to go mobile have to be identified and aligned based on the business needs and then a solution should to be
architected to fit the enterprise. To top it up, innovative use cases other than just adding a calendar or including the address book, need to
be identified and developed. On the other hand, we are in a complex market where newer versions, newer frameworks and tools are seen
and these developments are changing consumer needs. To meet this evolving market, a coherent mobile strategy needs to be built for
developing and managing mobile apps over the long run. Thus the overall objective of a mobile strategy should be to benefit all the users be
it external or internal in order to generate the best ROI.
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Managing People’s needs
Consumerization of IT has led the way to Bring Your Own Device concept, where in employees bring their own devices and use it for corporate as well as personal purpose. According to InformationWeek 2013 Mobile Security Survey, 68% support “Bring Your Own Device” in
some form, and an additional 20% are in the process of developing BYOD policies. Implementing BYOD results in higher employee productivity and better coordination and collaboration as data is available to people anytime, anywhere for completing their tasks. This also enables
quick decision making as information is available on the go.
However, with the growing popularity of BYOD, enterprises need to ensure the security of user owned devices which lead to Mobile Device
Management (MDM). Gartner says, 89% of all organizational IT departments, world-wide support BYOD. Early adopters are financial
services, hospitality, Media and Entertainment and Infrastructure players.

2. Below are some of the factors, Enterprises need to consider while implementing BYOD.
Adapting Line-of-business applications for different devices with reduced support costs
Spending IT budget wisely for mobile management tools
Developing strong BYOD security policies
Managing when a device is lost, stolen or infected with malware and how to reclaim sensitive data.
Balancing privacy concerns about employer access to personal contacts, messages, emails, installed apps and other data and protect
organization's sensitive data
Alternatively, few enterprises are also adopting virtualization technology to bring about a concept similar to BYOD which is called as COPE
(Corporate Owned Personally enabled). Enterprises find this concept more manageable because the devices are owned by the company and
not the individual.
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Technology Considerations
The ever growing market keeps providing a lot of challenges that enterprise have to face right from choosing the right platform to develop a
mobile app to integrating with your business applications. These are some of the factors enterprises need to consider.
Cross platform compatibility
Powerful User Experience
Back-end Integration
Support for multi devices like Phablet, Tablet, Phones, Windows 8 Devices, SmartTv
Apart from the above, in order to stay ahead of the competition, enterprises have to consider implementing disruptive technologies like AR,
speech and Behavior analysis as part of their mobile solution.
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need for cross compatibility across platforms are some of the challenges the IT departments of Enterprises have to face. This complex
market is in turn delaying their mobile efforts. But timing is very essential to the success of mobile application in order to crash the time
to market. So the Enterprises are engaging vendors for overcoming their mobile development challenges. However, the strength of
vendors varies widely in the market. So it is important to choose a vendor who can offer a broad range of services and innovative pricing.
More importantly, the vendor should have future road map in this space so that they can cover all the enterprise mobility needs.
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