The New Mobile Enterprise

If you're like most people, the first computing device you reach for every day probably isn't a laptop and it almost certainly isn't a desktop PC. Odds are, the first — and primary — computing device you use daily is a mobile one.

And just as in our personal lives, mobile devices are increasingly becoming the primary computing platform for business and enterprise use. Road warrior salespeople rely on smartphone apps to get the information they need to close a big deal. Field service technicians use mobile devices to understand and diagnose equipment that needs repairs. Workers on the manufacturing floor use mobile to keep all the machinery working at its best. And the rest of us increasingly turn to it for all our business technology requirements, from email and messaging, to analytics and requesting HR or IT assistance.

In fact, according to the recent Aberdeen survey, The New Mobile Enterprise, 39% of organizations consider themselves either mobile first (meaning they design all IT and business functionality primarily with mobile in mind), or they put mobile and traditional PC and laptop use at the same level of importance. This is a big change from even just a few years ago, when mobile applications and functionality were basically an afterthought. Those applications were something a business thought they should have, but that they didn't need to, in order to have full functionality or be as powerful as the "standard" web and PC interfaces.