Enterprise Mobility Strategies 2013

One: Mobile devices will overtake the PC’s another 3 years and by 2015 Media Tablet shipments will reach around 50% of Laptop shipments and windows will likely be third place behind Apple and Android. The use of smartphone and tablet will continue to surge in the enterprise, changing the way they do business. According to estimates, 821 million smartphones and tablets have been purchased globally in 2012. The number is expected to exceed the one billion mark in 2013.

Note: 2013 will no longer be the iPads alone. Analysts believe that Windows 8 will be a preferred choice in the tablet market after Apple and Android. This growth will largely be driven by enterprise demand rather than consumers.

Two: The Platform as a service model running applications without the hassle of maintaining the hardware and software infrastructure at your company, Irrespective the Enterprise size have adopt PaaS model for the simplicity, scalability and reliability. PaaS will provide infinite scalability, supporting and delivering mobile access to thousands of tasks used by thousands of employees in major corporations, Insights Mobile enterprise apps will allow employees to access and interact with real-time data on a handheld device + a cloud-based technology. As a tangible benefit by providing real time information that can be acted on immediately from anywhere at any time to accelerate the pace of decision-making, improve operations.

Gartner Predict on PaaS: The PaaS market will touch $1.5bn in 2013 and the global revenue for Platform as a service (PaaS) will grow consistently and by 2016 reaches to $2.9bn.

Three: HTML5 becomes more capable for multi platform and support of the mobile apps leads to a long-term shift from native apps to Web apps, however that the native apps won't disappear and "will always offer the best user experience and most sophisticated features." The shift from native apps to hybrid/web apps will be the cost benefit and “write ones run anywhere”.

                                                                    

Four: Integration is a major challenge to leverage both corporate –issued and employee - owned devices by the consumerization of BYOD, IT and Mobile device management enable to get the Enterprise data, A Massive integration take place..

Five : Enterprise App Stores – Enterprises face a complex app store future as some vendors will limit their stores to specific devices and types of apps forcing the enterprise to deal with multiple stores, multiple payment processes and multiple sets of licensing terms. By 2014, Gartner believes that many organizations will deliver mobile applications to workers through private application stores. With enterprise app stores the role of IT shifts from that of a centralized planner to a market manager providing governance and brokerage services to users and potentially an ecosystem..