What's REALLY the State of Enterprise Mobility?
The mobility space is constantly changing and for anyone to be adaptable to change, you need advance data and market insight into what's going on now, and what's to come later. Each year Antenna surveys 1,000 IT and business decision makers about everything mobile.
This year is no exception and the data will surprise you! See the research findings from the 2013 Mobile Business Forecast and shine a light on what is new this year and how the findings compare to the 2012 results.
Highlights:
- Has mobile spending has gone up, down or stayed the same?
- The key frustrations with mobile projects.
How much of what's been deployed in mobile is being re-used versus re-purchased?
- What's the bigger priority for businesses - leveraging mobile apps to transform the business, or make the current business process even better?
On the positive side of the ledger, the enterprise mobility market matured (or exploded) in 2012. It came out of infancy and entered adolescence in certain respects. IT got much more involved – or was forced to get involved – which is great for Antenna as our core value has always resonated with the more technology-minded professionalsNative became sexy again, and enthusiasm for mobile web/HTML5/etc. became much more realistic as a result of a few tech juggernauts (e.g., Facebook) falling short of user expectations with their mobile web appsBut most importantly – what REALLY ignited this market – was the BYOD phenomenon. Unfortunately, Antenna and others of our MADP ilk were the immediate benefactors of this market tipping point. Instead, MDM players like A/W, Mobile Iron, Good, and others started printing money as IT groups began buying licenses en masse in a very knee-jerk manner for fear they would lose control (or possibly their jobs) if they didn’t get in front of this trend that had a life of its own.One the negative side of the ledger, while it’s hard to prove … anecdotally … the global economic crisis has certainly had in impact of buying patterns and investments in transformative technologies.But, what really affected us and caught us somewhat flat-footed was the wide use, adoption, implementation of free/open development toolsets. It put a spotlight on the fact that developers hold the keys in many respects and prefer to use the likes of Sencha, Jquery Mobile, PhoneGap to get to market quickly and inexpensively.