PRAGUE, June 25, 2015 – With the accelerated adoption of smart devices (mainly smartphones and tablets) over the past few years, the growing mobility of employees, as well as the increased use of personal devices for work and the availability of cloud-based applications, mobility has emerged as a technology that businesses cannot afford to neglect. That’s the finding of IDC’s annual Enterprise Mobility Survey in Central and Eastern Europe. (TZ)
While mobility is considered essential by a growing number of companies in Western Europe’s more advanced countries, in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, mobility takes mid-level priority and only about one-third of CEE organizations have a mobility strategy in place. In most of these cases, said strategy refers to mobile security and mobile device management (MDM), which are the pillars for building a mobility enterprise management (MEM) infrastructure. The key advantage of mobility is in its power to transform the way companies do business. As evidence of this potential, decisions regarding mobility strategies are no longer of purely technological purview, but are rather a joint effort between business units and the IT department. In a significant proportion of the companies surveyed (45%), mobility strategies were determined by equal measures of business and IT input.
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