Top 7 Emerging Trends of Enterprise Mobility

Looking at the pace at which new devices with varied user interactions are launched in market, providing “everything everywhere” strategies are getting unachievable. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy plays a vital role in enterprises today.

Where connectivity and communication plays a major role in today’s business, BYOD allows people to use their own devices for work, increases the collaboration and hence the productivity.

With this level of flexibility, BYOD fuels the demand of application and data management products to mitigate security issues. Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM) provide an efficient solution for this.

With increasing number of tablets and smartphone devices, the numbers of apps are also being transformed equally, whether it’s for enabling access to enterprise software or developing a new one to simplify processes for different functional groups.

Today we can see a distinguishable rise in context-based apps for business operations, Strategic use of social functionalities in app for viral connect, apps focused on promotions and marketing of product or service, mobile based learning’s which are high on value delivered and light on wallet. Apps bring in very efficient way to socialize, mobilize and channelize.

User Experience (UX) has become an outstanding measure of success for mobility projects. HTML5 has reduced the dependency on plugin applications like Flash, Java and Silverlight for bringing in great User Interfaces with enriched media elements. HTML 5 is also becoming preferred choice for developing cross platform applications i.e. applications running on all platforms, application caching mechanism which runs the application in offline mode and gives native (non-browser) experience to apps.

This year has been a clear choice for acceptance of cloud computing. Around 61% of technology entrepreneurs recognize the power of cloud computing in terms of scalable computing power.

Hybrid Cloud is the environment where personal cloud and external private clouds interact; it provides a future scope of integration and interoperability of the software services. Along with this, Hybrid cloud also provides an added advantage of reducing the infrastructure cost along with protection and control of mission critical workload.

Dealing with huge data volume, variety and complexity brings changes to many traditional approaches. Big data brings cost effective and innovative forms of information processing which enhances insight and decision making processes for achieving business success.

Mobile Analytics helps you keep a control on the pulse of your business data and find game-changing knowledge and predictive models that u can use to make smart decisions, reduce risks or deliver breakthrough customer experience.

Mobility solution brings an upturn in modes of payment methods like mobile wallets, NFC (Near Field Communication) payments and alternative currency payments.

Augmented Reality is a concept wherein the direct, indirect or live view of the real world environment can be captured, processed and used in various apps. Here the environment elements are enhanced by sensory inputs of mobile or computer devices like sound, video, graphics and GPS data.

Although the term ‘Augmented Reality’ is originated more than 15 years ago, we see it as a new concept as its use with devices like smartphones and tablets has begun to arouse people’s interest