The research, based on hours of conversations with IT executives, finds that enterprises deploying mobility solutions in the context of a larger strategic plan improve their chances of a positive return from mobility technology by more than 15%. "IT executives often ignore formal planning in the rush to deploy new technology," says Dr. Mike Jude, senior research analyst with Nemertes. "Such planning on the front end makes a positive impact of the new technology more likely."
Additional benefits from mobility planning include improved times savings, with 60% of enterprises reporting a positive impact on time reduction associated with the deployment of mobility technology.
Other key findings of the research include:
- The median rate of mobility application spending is more than $1,250 per mobile employee.
- Unified communications planning now includes mobility.
- Mobility planning is increasingly taking into account carrier standards adoption.
This benchmark, which provides significant new information on the state of unified communications and mobility, includes data from 117 companies and 134 IT executives. More than 57% of these participants indicate that they have or are developing mobility plans.
"If your company doesn't have such a plan, now is the time to develop one," says Jude. "Companies that have not strategized the use of mobility are much more likely to indicate that their wireless budgets are out of control."
