Over the next 3 years, business deployment of smartphones will increase at a rate 4 times greater than that of notebooks, and business applications deployed to smartphone devices will grow at twice the rate of those deployed to notebooks, says a major business-oriented mobile application research report by J.Gold Associates
The study, Enterprise Mobile Applications: A Study of Strategies and Adoption Trends, polled more than 340 large and small companies in North America and Western Europe to gauge their adoption of mobile technologies within their business.
The respondents indicated that the median number of smartphones devices would grow:
• 30% in 1 year
• 100% in 3 years.
Further, they indicated that access to corporate applications from these devices would grow:
• 71% in 1 year
• 196% in 3 years
Clearly,
organizations responding to our survey envision a dramatic growth in
the use of smart phone devices and access to corporate,
business-oriented mobile applications.
Notebooks
The respondents indicated that the median number of notebook computers would grow:
• 0% in 1 year
• 25% in 3 years
Further, they indicated that access to corporate applications from notebooks would grow:
• 75% in 1 year
• 100% in 3 years
The respondents indicated that the level of notebook growth would be much slower than that of smart hone devices.