How Mobility Transforms Enterprise Productivity
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It's Driving the Future of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
When an app is designed from scratch to support an entire process, mobility becomes a business thing instead of a tech thing. -
It's Driving the Future of Collaboration
By 2016, most collaborative apps will be equally available on desktops, mobile phones, tablets and browsers, and the average personal cloud will synch and orchestrate at least six different device types. -
Organizations Cut Down on Office Space
They don't need as much when only one-of-ten end users access business apps from the corporate office 100% of the time. -
It Eliminates IT Overhead
Whether you're talking servers, data centers, software installations, etc., everything is less labor and resource-heavy with a comprehensive, enterprise mobile strategy. -
Marketing Teams Get What They Need Faster
50% of executives say the failure to keep product knowledge current is a major success barrier. With mobile enterprise, marketing teams get real-time updates on the road, and reduce sales cycles from months to days. -
It Encourages Flexible Approaches to Tech Deployment
HTML5, for example, is an open standard that enables quicker deployments throughout multiple devices, platforms and operating systems, thus reaching users in less time at lower costs. -
IT Employees Don't Spend as Much Time Assessing, Provisioning Tools
Why would they? Business users self-provision via the App Store and Google Play. -
IT Employees Don't Spend as Much Time Updating Tools
Because—you guessed it—business users do the udating themselves at the App Store and Google Play. -
Employees Do More When They Use the Tools They Prefer
It's Psychology 101: Workers are more motivated if they get to choose their own hardware. In today's BYOD universe, 77% of employees use their own phones and 62% depend upon personal tablets for work. -
Because Those Little Devices are Pretty Darn Powerful
In fact, the standard smartphone today has more computing power than Apollo 11 did when it landed a man on the moon.
By now, nearly every CIO must appreciate how mobility and bring your own device adoption is ultimately good for their organizations, especially when it comes to increased employee productivity. For starters, employees in the field complete mission-critical tasks in real-time; they no longer gather information in one place, and then return to an office to transcribe what they learned on the road. Because workers are constantly connected, they're always able to communicate, and are more likely to keep working even during off-hours. (Of course, this can be a good and a bad thing, if taken to extremes.) But, beyond these fundamental shifts, mobility is making less obvious and more transformational impact upon enterprise productivity while reducing costs. To illustrate just a sampling of the "how so?" here, we're presenting the following statistics and emerging practices. Combined, they demonstrate why three of five companies are increasing their mobile investments, and why mobile app testing now consumes at least one-quarter of an IT department's budget. Our statistics and practices were adopted by a variety of online resources, including those posted by Apperian and Intel. For more about the Apperian research, click here. For more about Intel's, click here.