Business Using Mobile Data Faster Than Planned

Criticism has been leveled at the mobile content community several times for focussing on consumers and letting the business market fall by the wayside resulting in little business use of mobile data, but there is some indication that is changing.
“A Forrester Research survey indicates that businesses are adopting mobile applications faster than they had planned. Nearly half of the respondents have deployed mobile applications like email, calendaring and employee content — 18% faster than originally planned for 2005″. 67% of respondents planned to increase spending on security, listing it as a major concern when deploying new telecom technologies.
“Most of the enterprises surveyed have deployed some form of mobile data applications and estimate that full deployment will reach 23% of their workforce…More than half have deployed email, calendar, and intranet applications, and close to 30% are interested in line-of-business applications, such as sales force automation and customer-facing applications.”

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