Enterprise mobility, key pillar of digital transformation

Where new information technologies are headed and how traditional companies are becoming new digital companies for a more productive, agile and profitable future are just some of the issues that the “Industry Insight 2017: A Global Perspective” prepared by Enterprise Mobility Exchange. Among the trends of this study, it emphasizes the enterprise mobility.

Through consultation with more than a hundred analysts, leaders and executives from companies across the industry, “Industry Insight 2017” provides a global view of key technology trends in a world that is becoming increasingly more interconnected: business mobility, the Internet of Things (IoT), the use of the cloud, mobile security, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and automatic learning, and so on.

Enterprise mobility: here and now

Enterprise mobility is one of the fastest growing trends, as this report states, and goes well beyond the mere presence of internal applications of the company in the mobile of the worker.

According to the data revealed, although companies have been looking for decades to increase efficiency through mobility, the advances made during the last years eclipse all of the above. And this is mainly due to the proliferation of mobile devices (laptops, smartphones, tablets…). So much so that now “is the time to focus solely on mobiles.”

And while it is true that there are a large percentage of laggards, enterprise mobility is a key pillar of digital transformation. In fact, 61% of respondents admit that mobility continues to be an increasing priority, and for 27%, it is already an absolute priority in their organization.

The rapid rise to the cloud

Not so long ago the idea of storing private or corporate information in a third-party’s data center was considered, at best, an extravagant idea. However, at present, it forms the basis of many of the new digital companies.

So much so, according to the Enterprise Mobility Exchange survey, the cloud is the first choice for 46% of IT executives when asked to indicate their top three-business technology needs by 2017.

Augmented reality and artificial intelligence

Another of the fastest-growing trends noted by this report is augmented reality, which is being adopted faster than virtual reality and is improving the productivity of workers equipped with mobile devices. What is the basic reason for this growth?

“Augmented reality moves faster than virtual reality, especially in business, because it does not need additional hardware like headphones and stuff,” says Je Wallace, founder and president of Global Kinetics.

Increased enterprise mobility, cloud migration and augmented reality (along with automated learning) are just three of the key trends in real-time digital business transformation in the second half of 2017 and will mark the future of digital companies.