Mobile business is the number one IT issue pre-occupying the minds of IT professionals in Asia/Pacific, according to a survey.
The IDC CIO Innovation Survey 2011 said 'Mobile Everything' will become the norm for companies in future. Enterprise mobility has been a familiar term for organizations over many years.
For many companies it means mobile email, perhaps a bit of Unified Communications or FMC, and for the adventurous, extending the workplace applications just a little into the mobile environment.
“That's yesterday’s view. It’s changed. Organizations that continue to take enterprise mobility for granted will be swept aside in the new environment. Today, we’re seeing what we could call a ‘perfect storm’ created by the evolution of different areas of technology combining to fundamentally, and drastically change how organizations can use enterprise mobility to support business goals and strategies,” said Tim Dillon, IDC’s associate vice president for Asia/Pacific.
New access networks, new devices, new mobile operating systems, applications, platforms and delivery models come together to create true and all-embracing enterprise mobility, the survey said.
If previous IT turning points for industry have been the move from mainframes to desktops and the growth of Internet, then new mobile devices and applications will constitute the next seismic shift, the survey added.
“ICT is evolving on multiple fronts to create a true revolution in mobility. As enterprise applications become mobile, the boundaries of the enterprise become extended and blurred,” Dillon added.
IDC’s Asia/Pacific Mobile Everything Conference will showcase how new devices, operators, mobile applications and cloud computing can now make everything in the enterprise mobile.