Many examples from the pandemic demonstrate how mobile helps enterprises conquer disruption and uncertainty. Retailers with mobile devices were able to pivot to curbside pickup faster. Mobility was vital to enabling work from anywhere. With 97 percent of companies now saying mobile is very, or extremely, important to business, the 2023 Enterprise Mobility Outlook shows it's a lesson that's been well learned. Mobile is helping companies get where they need to be to weather uncertain times. Only a tiny percentage aren't focused on leveraging mobile to improve their nimbleness through:
Automation
Streamlining workflows
Having the ability to scale up or down quickly
Gaining tools that easily evolve as organizational needs and priorities change
Improving ROI with multi-use devices
Enterprise leaders will invest more in mobile during economic uncertainty to achieve necessary efficiencies and cost savings which drive competitiveness. From tablets to smartphones, wearables to IoT, they are looking for every advantage they can squeeze from technology.
With enterprises doubling down on mobile to reap the benefits, 75 percent of IT leaders and their teams are feeling overwhelmed by the size and diversity of the tech stacks they're now managing. It's introducing new business risks when deployments aren't done quickly, correctly, and with adequate support. Issues like endpoint security and keeping track of the status of devices are concerns that repeatedly stand out in our research. The majority can't see their entire mobile from a single pane of glass—which unnecessarily increases the complexity of the job they do. Companies often lack the expertise and resources internally to adequately manage all the mobile solutions they're now expected to design, deploy, and support at scale.
Enterprise leaders realize that everyone has mobile technology, but the winners are those who deploy it best. Factors like cost, quality of solutions, frictionless deployments, and strong support are very important. To solve their challenges, most enterprises partner with an MMSP to wring every advantage possible out of their technology investments.
Developing technology like wearables and IoT is creating more and more use cases where mobile can improve workflows, enhance user experiences, and generate actionable data. Advanced 5G and private 5G networks will help speed that expansion. The majority of respondents say that will impact IT strategies and mandate comprehensive endpoint management solutions. It will be critical to find ways to reduce the complexity while adding even more new solutions to tech stacks.
Wherever your organization is in its mobile-first journey, you don't have to go it alone. Stratix has led from the front on mobility for four decades. We can help you design and deliver end-to-end mobile technology solutions that make your organization's mobility convenient, easy, and cost-effective. We execute deployments at scale and with precision so they work in the hands of your end users out of the box. Once devices are in service, we provide ongoing world-class managed services and visibility tools that ensure nonstop mobility throughout their lifecycle. For additional information, visit www.stratixcorp.com
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Enterprise Mobility Reports
Fourth Year for the Enterprise Mobility Report Shows Companies are Leveraging Mobile Technology to Succeed in Uncertain Times
Our 2022 Outlook and Mobile-First Score, we saw who's leveraging mobile for digital transformation, how they're doing it, the challenges, and what they needed to do to improve.
Our first Enterprise Mobility Outlook—done just before the pandemic outbreak—showed how early technology adopters were leading the way on overall revenue.
Our second study in 2021 gave us a report card on how organizations were responding to the pandemic and who was best equipped.
