Overview:

Email, messaging and the personal calendar (not to mention voice calls) will be the most popular uses of enterprise mobile technology over the next five years. However, the gains in mobile workforce productivity are likely to be limited until companies begin managing the deployment and use of mobile technology in a more systematic. By far the biggest downside to mobile worker productivity is to deal with the pressures of “constant availability” of required company resources or information from remote location without compromising on the information-security aspects of the company.

Key challenges for an IT organization having mobile workforce are how to feed mobile workers with real-time information without compromising on security, keep worker productivity moving at the speed business now demands, secure intellectual property with so much information flying around, integrate sophisticated hardware and software to simplify usage and standardize user experience and reduce support costs.