Mobility's Potential Remains Largely Untapped
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Good Intentions
78% of CIOs and other senior tech leaders say their organization embraces advances in mobile tech to benefit business. -
Benefit Drivers
55% say mobility is perceived as a way to increase productivity and efficiency, and 27% say it can improve communications. -
Unappreciated Potential
Only 14% say their company perceives mobility as a way to transform business processes and open up new revenue opportunities. -
Underutilized Asset
Less than half say their organization is adding mobile-specific functionality to add value to specific enterprise applications. -
Wish List
87% say a majority of their employees would benefit from increased access to enterprise apps like CRM, ERP and SharePoint on mobile devices. -
Prohibitive Factor, Part I
72% say it's too costly to integrate mobile innovations into legacy apps. -
Prohibitive Factor, Part II
66% say it's too complex to integrate mobile innovations into legacy apps. -
Most Commonly Used Mobile Functions for Enterprise Applications
Secure offline access: 45%, GPS and location awareness: 44%, Location-based services: 39%, On-device storage: 39%, Mobile payments: 39%
CIOs and other senior tech decision-makers say the enterprise's mobile IT remains vastly underutilized, according to a recent survey from Mobile Helix. True, the vast majority of organizations want mobile to advance business-benefiting strategies. But, as they say, wishing isn't doing: A small minority say that mobility is actually helping open up new revenue opportunities and business processes. And most say it's either too costly or complex to integrate new mobile solutions within existing legacy systems. "(These) concerns are understandable, given that widespread enterprise mobility is still in its infancy," says Matt Bancroft, president of Mobile Helix. "Yet, if CIOs make the right long-term choices today, they can generate significant returns for their business. Mobility has the potential to disrupt business in much the same way as the Internet … With the introduction and broad adoption of HTML5, enterprises today can develop and deliver apps using their existing infrastructure and in-house skills. This means that the development of mobility solutions and mobile innovations can be both simple and cost effective." An estimated 300 CIOs and other top tech execs in the U.S. and the U.K. took part in the research. For more about the survey, click here.