Enterprise Mobility
Enterprise mobility describes the trend of a greater number of employees working outside the office and using mobile devices and cloud services to perform business tasks. With the rise of smartphones and tablets a few years ago, the workforce began to shift toward mobility. Mobile applications and social media, especially those connected with cloud computing and offering mobile collaboration features, also contributed to the emergence of enterprise mobility.
Enterprise mobility is particularly prominent among companies that rely on field operations and field services to service end consumers, as well as in field sales operations. But increasingly, enterprise mobility is becoming the norm among companies which historically relied on the traditional central office model.
CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH ENTERPRISE MOBILITY
A Gartner study on 2012 shows that the innovation rate in mobile devices, social software, and cloud computing accelerates faster than the enterprise adaptation rate, so IT organizations that do not adapt to enterprise mobility lose their relevance. The study also finds that enterprises often struggle with mobile governance, or the management of the people, policy, and process issues. Because enterprises organize their people into silos to improve efficiency, it becomes difficult for those enterprises to solve mobility challenges because the solutions often span several operational domains.
The rise of enterprise mobility also saw the rise of security policies. These policies posed a slew of new challenges for IT. While adopting enterprise mobility may seem daunting, mobile enterprise software solutions assist organizations in connecting entire teams quickly and easily. The best enterprise mobility software solutions enable enterprises to better manage and optimize business resources in the field, including seamless interaction between field employees, office staff, and back-office functions.
WHY EMBRACE ENTERPRISE MOBILITY?
According to Global Industry Analysts, the global market for enterprise mobility increased year by year, driven by globalization of businesses, workforce decentralization, and increase in number of mobile employees. The below list offers a few top reasons to embrace enterprise mobility:
- Increased speed or tempo of operations to gain a competitive advantage
- Efficient data collection so better and faster decisions can be made
- Quicker reporting of events and KPIs to a wider audience to provide full situational awareness and promote good decision making and issue resolution
- Improved workforce productivity due to real-time data collection, artificial intelligence, and reporting
- Reduced expenses and waste due to inefficient resource allocation
- Improve visibility to remote operations and projects, enabling better data-driven decisions
- Provide more collaboration faster, with remote workers contributing to the decision-making
- Higher profits due to efficiency gains.
Benefits
Specific Benefits of Instituting Enterprise MobilityPortability
Availability
Sharing
Access data in context
Capture data in real time
Improved user experience
System independence
Geolocation
Capture multimedia data with built-in camera
Industry Solutions
Enterprise Mobility is on core of Step One offered solutions. ERP, CRM, ECM anywhere.
All solutions are out of the box designed to adopt mobile devices. The same apply to Step One industry solutions.