2015 TRENDS: ENTERPRISE MOBILITY APP

IT organizations will dedicate at least 25 percent of their software budget to mobile application development, deployment, and management by 2017.

“The number of enterprise applications optimized for mobility will quadruple by 2016, driven both by competitive necessity and rapidly evolving technologies that support faster and more secure enterprise appification.

The following are the other IT predictions in 2015.

ü  Difficulties linking mobile platforms to existing databases will cause 45 percent of mobile enterprise app initiatives to be delayed or go over budget in 2015.

ü  35 percent of large enterprises will leverage mobile application development platforms to develop and deploy mobile apps across their organizations in 2015.

ü  The number of enterprise applications optimized for mobility will quadruple by 2016

ü  30-40 percent of organizations deploying more than five mobile applications in 2015 will realize substantial business agility benefits by establishing an API tier in their enterprise IT architecture.

ü  Over 50 percent of large organizations will invest in enhanced enterprise mobility management (EMM) capabilities to secure apps and data in 2015.

ü By 2017, 100 percent of the line of business (LOB) apps in customer-facing roles and 75 percent of LOB apps in internally-facing roles will be built for mobile-first consumption.

ü  IT departments will require major reorganizations by 2016 to assume broker-integrate-manage as well as service orchestration functions.

ü  Competitive necessity will supersede productivity and efficiency for 50 percent of mobile enterprise app development in 2015.

ü  By the end of 2015, only 15 percent of large organizations will have adequate mobile security governance for process and policy.

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MAINTAINING APPLICATION READINESS FOR ONGOING BUSINESS INNOVATION.

Line of business owners in the enterprise are demanding more applications of greater complexity for a greater number of operating environments and devices, and they want them delivered quickly. If you can’t give them what they want, they may go around IT and acquire the applications on their own, a phenomenon known as “shadow IT.” That not only drives up acquisition and support costs but also jeopardizes security and compliance.

Adding to the challenge is the increasing strategic use of mobile apps in the enterprise. Thought leadership articles warn about security risks that result from mobile applications leaking data outside the enterprise such as through the use of cameras, copy-paste operations or connections to cloud services. Yet IT organizations have little or no institutional knowledge of how mobile apps behave when deployed and used, or how to shape that behavior to support enterprise standards. And there are few tools or techniques available to assess the mobile applications in use.

To address the challenge, IT must achieve and maintain a high level of agility and be prepared for continual change. The goal is to position IT to provide business owners with all the applications they need, when they need them, on the operating systems and devices they choose — while still retaining control.

To meet this goal, you must maintain a portfolio of applications ready for immediate deployment to a wide variety of operating systems and devices, and keep the applications current with the latest updates and patch levels. You also have to migrate applications to new operating systems and devices, to new versions of existing platforms, and to virtualized environments. In addition, you have to continually add new applications to the portfolio. At the same time, you need to drive down costs by maximizing efficiency such as by automating processes and enabling end users to serve themselves in requesting applications.

Considering the complexity of today’s applications, the number of operating environments and devices, and the rapid release of new versions of applications and environments, maintaining continual application readiness is a tall order. Maintaining Application Readiness in today’s complex and continually evolving technology environment is challenging, but essential to enabling ongoing business innovation. You have to be prepared for change and to provide line of business owners with the applications they need, when they need them, and on the devices they choose. And you have to ensure that your enterprise has the latest technology at its disposal to maintain its competitive edge.

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ENTERPRISE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT (EMM) SEGMENT IN INDIA

Refocusing on the Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) segment in India, banking on its recently launched solutions and value-added services. Indian EMM market, has an addressable market size of USD 1.8 billion. “India’s EMM market is still under penetrated from the solutions point of view, and we see a huge opportunity out there,”  EMM is the set of processes and technology to manage mobile devices and wireless networks to enable mobile computing in a business environment.

The rising affluence of younger, hyper-connected investors across Asia is disrupting the staid wealth management market, pushing traditional players to build captivating and useful mobile experiences that strengthen client-advisor relationships, reduce operational costs and improve internal productivity.

To start on the path to mobility, managers should develop a holistic strategy that aligns their mobility offerings with clearly defined key performance indicators (KPIs). Firms need to decide early on whether to implement mobil-ity on their own or hire a third-party partner with a focus on improving the client experience and advisor productivity.

Firms should also glean insights from the use of mobile technology among clients and advisors to plan and then extend their mobility services. Other requirements include a well-integrated operating infrastructure and a robust data strategy capable of providing a rich, seamless and consistent client experience. Lastly, mobility services also require effective security policies that offer robust protection of client data from unauthorized usage.

URS offers a portfolio of tools and services to develop enterprise mobility strategies so you can create a mobile enterprise that capitalizes on new business models, innovate products and services, and unlocks workforce productivity. With technology expertise and industry knowledge, our mobility consultants will work with you to develop your organization’s mobile blueprint and implement across a diverse range of mobile platforms and devices. URS will work with companies throughout their mobility journey to enable them to maximize the potential of their mobile implementation. We help in business transformation creating solutions tailored to your needs whether its location based services or mobile wallets. Our mobility services will change the ways your employees work by automating the processes and boost productivity which helps in measurable business value.

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