Organizations are embracing mobile enterprise strategies that take into account the impact mobile apps will have on transforming how the business operates.
73% of the respondents said their companies are planning to mobilize their entire organizations. A full 84% said they will shift focus from mobile apps to creating a mobile enterprise. The telecommunications segment (40%) is leading the way, followed by financial services (36%), manufacturing (34%), energy and utilities (32%), health care/pharmaceutical (32%), transportation (32%) and retail (31%).
The vast majority (92%) said enterprise mobility is crucial their companies' customer engagement strategy, while 91% said it is critical to their companies' competitiveness. In fact, 87% said enterprise mobility is essential to a company's profitability.
A full 90% said companies need to invest in enterprise mobility to stay on top of rapid change to operations.
The overwhelming majority (92%) said new approaches are required to mobilize an entire enterprise. In fact, 85% said custom software apps are key to their strategy.
Top drivers cited for custom application development include efficiency (56%), security (53%), speed (48%), operational productivity (42%) and customer engagement (37%). Almost six in 10 (59%) said their companies' budgets for custom app development will increase in 2016.
Almost two-thirds (64%) cited agility, speed or security as obstacles to creating a truly mobile enterprise.
Cloud-based apps/solutions (70%) and enterprise mobility (61%) will provide the biggest returns to their companies in 2016.
28% reported it takes more than six months to deliver a new app; 43% said it takes their company three to six months.
89% said they would rather have functional parity across desktop and mobile apps than have separate apps.
Nearly nine in 10 are concerned about security in custom and pre-packaged applications (86% in both cases).
A subtle, yet profound shift is starting to occur in how organizations approach mobile computing, according to the findings of a new survey conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Appian, a provider of business process management (BPM) software. The study, based on a poll of 306 IT decision-makers, suggests that instead of thinking in terms of individual mobile applications, organizations are embracing enterprise strategies that take into account the impact the apps will have on transforming how the business operates. From customer engagement to backend business processes, mobile applications affect just about every backend IT service there is inside an organization. Rather than addressing that in a haphazard manner, IT organizations are starting to craft more holistic approaches to mobile computing. For solution providers across the channel, the good news is that the mobile computing opportunity is finally about to move well beyond the device that any given mobile application happens to be running on at any given moment. Channel Insider examines key findings from the Appian study.