According to a report published jointly by Citrix and Zinnov, Indian companies are recognising the necessity to adopt mobility solutions due to IT consumerisation and increased mobile device proliferation.
However, the mobility solutions market is faced with challenges such as security and data breach, integration issues, regulatory compliance and high cost. Despite growing awareness regarding the benefits offered by enterprise mobility solutions, at present, less than 50 per cent of enterprises have a defined mobility strategy in place. It is increasingly being realised by enterprises that defining a well-planned approach towards enterprise mobility deployments can gain maximum user acceptance, reduce time to return on investment as well as mitigate security concerns.
The report findings indicate that increasingly, users across Indian organisations are demanding the freedom to choose their own device, use any application at work, and have access to enterprise data from any place, any device, anytime. As a result, organisations need to redefine their mobility strategy to address user demand while meeting IT security and management requirements around the user, device, appications and data.
About 70 per cent technology stakeholders are of the view that unified communications is a key driver for enterprise mobility. Another 60 per cent of technology and business stakeholders identify increasing collaboration amongst employees as the second most key driver for the adoption of enterprise mobility solutions. About 97 per cent of respondents have deployed corporate e-mail through enterprise mobility solutions.
The findings of the report are based on the research conducted with 130 IT and business stakeholders in 65 organisations across India.
