Mobility rated top in corporate priorities: survey
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According to a global survey commissioned by Citrix, 71 per cent of enterprises believe mobility is a top priority for their business and 63 per cent believe it to be the greatest factor in helping their organisation gain a competitive advantage.
Citrix is a cloud company that enables mobile workstyles – empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere, securely accessing apps and data on any of the latest devices, as easily as they would in their own office.
Of the organisations surveyed, about half have implemented technologies to support mobile devices, with 48 per cent using mobile device management and 47 per cent using mobile application management. Organisations are also recognising the need to provide Windows apps and desktop to mobile workers, with 41 per cent of businesses using or planning to use application virtualisation and 40 per cent leveraging desktop virtualisation. File sharing, sync and storage have been or will also be implemented by 40 per cent of companies to support mobile users.
To produce insight into the mobility strategies of businesses around the globe, the Citrix Mobility in Business Report polled 1,700 senior IT decision-makers across 17 countries including Thailand.
Respondents were asked about the advantages and challenges of implementing mobile initiatives, their current policies toward mobile devices and the impact that the consumerisation of IT is having on their businesses.
The report outlines results from the research and sheds light on the perceptions of mobility, its importance for companies and its perceived impact for improving flexibility, productivity and agility.
The top two mobile initiatives for businesses are increasing development on mobile apps and increasing adoption of secure file sharing and collaboration tools. Improving network performance and access is the third most important mobile initiative.
About 51 per cent of organisations say they are changing management processes to better manage those working on any device from anywhere.
Organisations are most focused on measuring the impact that mobility has on productivity and employee motivation.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is quickly becoming the norm, with 71 per cent of companies allowing, accommodating and encouraging the use of personally owned devices. Of these companies, 76 per cent estimate that more than 100 unidentified devices access their networks each day.
Worldwide, organisations report a daily average of 425 such connections.
