Enterprise mobility explodes beyond corner office in 2008

BOSTON, USA: The Strategy Analytics Wireless Enterprise Strategies service has released its projections for the enterprise market in 2008. "Wireless Enterprise Strategies: 2008 Market Outlook," notes that UMA and Call redirect will dominate the business FMC market, while mobile device management solutions will grow strongly as dual mode smartphone sales grow to 66 million.

Andrew Brown, Senior Analyst, Wireless Enterprise Strategies, said: "2008 will see significant traction on MDM as smartphones surge and GPS handsets become more closely aligned with enterprise LBS solutions and begin to resonate with enterprise customers. Embedded modules will gain a foothold in business as a result of flat rate data plans while USB modems will continue to grow dramatically.

"Prosumer email will become a new battleground in 2008, but secure email will still offer higher revenue potential. Microsoft will raise its profile and credibility as an end to end mobile solutions vendor with SCMDM (System Centre Mobile Device Manager) as applications become more closely aligned to core business processes."

David Kerr, Vice President of the Global Wireless Practice at Strategy Analytics, added: “Enterprise mobility will continue to be a critical profit center. In 2008, mobile email and line of business applications will post strong growth as the ranks of mobile workers continue to surge and businesses seek enhanced security and access controls to their critical human and capital assets."

Other key findings

* IT department attitudes to notebook WAN connectivity will soften;

* Mobile enterprise applications will become more closely aligned with core business processes due to changing business models such as SOA and SaaS;

* USB modem demand will continue to be extremely strong in 2008 for both mobile professionals and prosumers.