Key Device Trends That Will Shape Enterprise Mobility In 2008

For IT professionals, 2008 is shaping up to be an interesting year in the enterprise mobility space. We will witness companies: 1) push the mobile work style down to unprecedented numbers of employees; 2) balance security and management against usability and experience; and 3) realize that struggling against the consumerization of the enterprise is a losing battle and begin to embrace the inevitable transformation. Because of the ever-changing mobile landscape, new wireless technologies and standards, newer ultramobile form factors, and more robust operating systems and applications, we're now hitting critical mass in mobile enterprise adoption and spending. What does this mean for 2008? Enterprises will begin to move away from the opportunistic mobility adoption of the past to a more strategic build-out that will help define the next three years of the mobile enterprise.