Why Mobility Will Become Core Of Enterprise By 2015: IDC

Driven by the twin necessities of resource optimisation & business agility, more than 37 percent of organisations across the major industry verticals in India consider Mobility a top enterprise IT priority for the next fiscal year, according to a newly published research report by IDC titled “Enterprise Mobility 2013 Trends and Priorities in India."

The survey was conducted with 430 key decision makers (CIO/CTO/IT head/IT Director and others), among organisations based in India and spanning across various verticals such as FSI, Manufacturing, Retail, Communication and Healthcare. The major objectives of the study were to identify the current usage and future plans of adoption of such solutions, drivers, and major challenges faced by enterprises.

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Mobility is en route to being adopted in the mainstream. IDC expects enterprise mobility to undergo an unprecedented boom to become a necessity for businesses that aspire to lead and compete aggressively. There is a paradigm shift in the IT strategy of a major chunk of vendors (67 percent) that are willing to re-engineer their business processes to implement these solutions and derive business and competitive advantage.

“Young and tech-savvy people for whom mobility is native, are changing the workplace dynamics today. Resource optimisation, and the need to increase employee productivity are the top reasons behind the interest evinced by Indian enterprises. Organisations are making the transition from “mobilising the people” to “mobilising the business processes,” says Jaideep Mehta, VP and Country General Manager, IDC India.

To allay the security and integration concerns of the enterprises, heavy investments would be made in the mobile security and mobile device management spaces in the next 12-24 months.

“With management of employee owned devices becoming a primary concern for most organisations in their mobility journey, mobile device, content & application management tops the list of mobile solutions that organisations will be looking to outsource in the next 12 months,” opined Shalil Gupta, Director Insights and Consulting.