Mobility initiatives within organizations: realities, stakes, and trends.

It is not yet a great momentum; organizations, enterprises and public sectors are still looking for the best balance between employee’s goodwill, operational costs and how to leverage mobile devices effectively at workplace. This means inter alia understand the value proposition of mobility for their businesses.

This challenge is accentuated by the general lack of understanding on differentiation between MDM and MEM. 

However, according to IDC’s latest Enterprise Mobility studies, countries in the Asia/Pacific regions have begun to utilize mobility in different fashions depending on their needs. Over 70% of all survey respondents stated that there were some kind of mobility initiatives in their organizations.

Connectikpeople.co  recalls that, Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a segmented solution, while Mobile Enterprise Management (MEM) is a comprehensive solution that secures the device, application and data.

When it comes to IDC’s latest Enterprise Mobility studies, Connectikpeople.co can observe that, countries like Singapore or Australia put more focus on ensuring security and management of the enterprise mobility platform; while emerging countries like Indonesia and Thailand tend to focus on developing applications to drive business on the mobile platform.

This difference is justified inter alia by the fact that, companies in developed countries have more and robust infrastructures and data they need to protect and optimize; but beyond their leapfrogging capabilities, companies in developing countries always struggle, to appropriate and develop powerful infrastructures and data they need for their growth. 

IDC’s latest Enterprise Mobility studies, finds across the region (Asia/Pacific, excluding Japan), that, if about 80% of respondents who has mobility initiatives in their organizations has either implemented or are testing mobile security and management solutions, more organizations are still leaning towards device-only management solutions (MDM) rather than the more comprehensive mobile enterprise management (MEM) solutions that secures the device, application and data.