Present and future of enterprise mobility

Research and Markets expects the enterprise mobility market will experience a growth above 35% for 2021.

Enterprise Mobility: current status and prospects for the immediate future

A recent study by Research and Markets estimated since now until 2021 that global market for enterprise mobility will grow more than a third. Over 2014, the last year for which complete data are available, the global market for enterprise mobility management has generated gains set around 1.5 billion dollars, and this would can be increased to over two billion dollars at the end of the next five years. Nowadays, the management of enterprise mobility is based on solutions including the management of mobile devices and their contents and applications running on them. All these aspects will experience significant growth for the next five years, although it is expected that the management of mobile content constitutes the element that experience a greater increase based on two essential factors, the increasing need to analyse and manage huge amounts of data on the one hand, and growth and demand for the cloud solutions from elsewhere.

BYOD, the key trend

But the biggest boost to the enterprise mobility management global growth is being the quickly expanding a new concept known under the acronym BYOD. It means “Bring Your Own Device”. A trend that they are using more and more companies and is favoured by the increasing number of mobile phone users within the organization.

Managing mobile contents will experience the greatest boost                                                     

So, people use their own devices to access company data. This prevents data loss while the need to maintain the privacy and security of data, promotes the creation and implementation of specific solutions within the mobility management plan of the company. Enterprise mobility is transforming the way businesses operate based on two major advantages or benefits provided by the insertion of BYOD system (reducing costs of companies and increasing productivity). However, and simultaneously, security has become the main concern in the adoption of enterprise mobility, a problem that drives organizations to focus on building multi-platform solutions that support multiple devices within the same network at the same time ensures the security.

Seven companies dominate more than half the global market for enterprise mobility                             

This study by Research and Markets Markets further notes that at present, the market for the management of enterprise mobility is dominated by just a few companies. Specifically, 60% of this market is led by big companies such as VMware Inc. (AirWatch), Good Technology, BlackBerry, MobileIron, Citrix Systems Inc., SAP, and IBM. In this scenario of growth in enterprise mobility, Masvoz is the forerunner and leader in the implementation of BYOD solutions in Spain; through our application BizPhone, any employee can make business calls from his own personal smartphone being the costs incurred by the company.