Strategy Analytics: Enterprise Mobile App Market To Break £100bn
A new report from Strategy Analytics argues that the enterprise mobile app market will hit almost $74 billion (£59.4bn) in 2016, and grow to $128bn (£102.8bn) by 2022. The analyst firm argues the primary driver for the growing market is the increasing mobile workforce, which Strategy notes will rise to 1.87 billion in 2022, up from 1.45bn this year. The ‘near ubiquity’ of Wi-Fi networks and the expansion of 4G will also contribute to the rise.
Why Digital Transformation Is Forcing IT To Evolve
While innovations of the web-scale consortium of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google are impressive, it’s challenging to take those innovations and apply them to enterprise IT. For example, take Facebook’s strong contributions to the Open Compute initiative. Facebook’s most recent contribution is a 100Gbps data center switch and, while the switch may have limited applicability to most regular enterprises, it does highlight the growing value of IT infrastructure-specific intellectual property created by end-user operations.
Mobile Commerce Dominates Black Friday
Black Friday and Thanksgiving shoppers increasingly relied on the small screen as mobile traffic dominated online sales, according to data compiled from various sources. Adobe reported that online sales hit a record $3.34 billion on Black Friday. According to ChannelAdvisor, 68.2 percent of Thanksgiving Day e-commerce traffic came via a smartphone. Toss in tablets and 77.8 percent of traffic on Thanksgiving came via a mobile device.
Five Ways To Enhance Connectivity Among A Scattered Workforce
The rise of the digital workforce has resulted in a double-edged sword of enhanced flexibility and productivity, offset by increased complexity in staying connected and efficiently collaborating. Yes, today’s workers have an unprecedented range of tools and applications that increase the places, platforms and processes by which they can do their jobs. At the same time, a dispersed workforce introduces new challenges from a communications and collaboration standpoint.
Tablets: Why Businesses Are Falling In Love With Them
Are businesses finally falling in love with tablets, just as consumers fall out of love with them? According to figures from IDC, 8.2 million tablets were shipped into Western Europe in the third quarter of this year, a 6.7 percent decline year-on-year. But while sales of consumer tablets dropped, spending on high-priced two-in-one devices like the iPad Pro and Microsoft’s Surface range grew rapidly.
Digital Transformation Isn’t A Goal. It’s A Journey
Digital disruption is everywhere—and it’s hitting nobody harder than the large-scale traditional enterprise. In fact, technological disruption is shortening the lifespan of some of the world’s oldest and greatest companies. A study by Richard N. Foster predicts that just over 10 years from now, 75 percent of the S&P 500 will be entirely replaced.
MobileIron Introduces SSO For Native Apps
Enterprise mobility management software provider MobileIron has announced single sign-on capability for its Access platform, which enables users to only input their passwords once across different applications.
Bridging The Gap Between Businesses And IT Departments
Although we’ve long since entered the digital age, many organizations remain saddled with legacy IT systems, unable to keep up with the growing and ever-changing demands of the business. Yet despite considerable challenges, there’s also good news: low-code platforms are helping to bridge the gap between business needs and IT capabilities.
What Is Digital Transformation?
Digital transformation is a term that has reached just about every company in every industry. It has been debated by analysts, thought leaders and executives. According to The Guardian, there exists three key drivers of transformation: changing consumer demand, changing technology and changing competition. If any of these puts pressure on a company’s business model, it must adapt.
UK Government Invests £1b In Fibre And 5G
The British government has announced that it will be investing over £1 billion to encourage the rollout of a full fibre-to-the-premises network and become a “world leader” in 5G. Chancellor Philip Hammond used the Autumn Statement to announce the spending, which the government hopes will kick start private investment in the sector in order to conduct further 5G trials and roll out fibre broadband to every home and business across the United Kingdom.
Culture That Embraces Experimentation Key To Digital Transformation
Australian companies that embrace experimentation, strategic risk taking, and constant learning experience better outcomes from their digital transformation programs, a new Microsoft study has found. Microsoft recently conducted interviews with 30 senior leaders in both public and private sector organizations to better understand the success factors and obstacles involved in digital transformation, which the tech giant defines broadly as “harnessing new technologies to improve business outcomes”.
Security Landscape Plagued By Too Many Vendors
Vendor saturation is one of the biggest challenges currently plaguing the cybersecurity market, according to system engineer security for Cisco Systems Ronny Guillaume, who is concerned that organizations are surrounded by too much noise to truly understand what it is they actually need to protect their business.
This Bank Wants You To Take Out Cash Using Your Android Smartphone
Barclays bank is piloting a service, which will allow customers to withdraw money from their account using their Android smartphone. The service is being tested in the north of England before rolling it out to over 180 branches next year, the company said. It will be available via more than 600 in-branch machines, allowing customers to withdraw cash with a tap of their Android smartphone, or contactless debit card, using NFC technology.
China Beats US As Top iOS App Store Market In Q3
China hit an industry record in the third quarter of 2016 with the highest iOS App Store revenue to date for any country, according to App Annie’s Market Index Report for the period. Earning $1.7 billion, China overtook the United States by over 15 percent and its growth is projected to climb further by 2020.
Nokia Brand To Return To Smartphones In 2017
Nokia’s brand will return to smartphones in 2017, the company confirmed during its Capital Markets Day earlier this month. The Nokia brand’s return to phones was announced earlier this year when Nokia signed a deal enabling a company called HMD to create a new generation of Nokia-branded mobile phones and tablets. But myriad news outlets are pointing to slides shown during the company’s Capital Markets Day in Barcelona where the company specifically lists 2017 as the return date.
Payment Trends In 2017: Will Mobile Payments Be A Game-Changer?
According to Cisco, by 2020 there will be 5.5 billion global mobile users, up from 4.8 billion in 2015. In recent years, we watched the rise of mobile payment solutions from the biggest tech brands such as Apple, Samsung, Google, and Amazon. Social media platforms have also added payments to allow users to make purchases while chatting with friends.
Google Acquires Qwiklabs To Teach Hands-On Cloud Building
Google has snatched away an important tool of learning from one of its major competitors, Amazon Web Services. The huge web services provider announced the acquisition of Qwiklabs, which currently provides hands-on lab learning environments to infrastructure software vendors for Amazon Web Services.
How To Digitally Transform Your Business The Smart Way
In a recent study, “Digitizing IT: Catalysts for Growth,” The Economist Intelligence Unit revealed that 63 percent of senior executives from companies with annual revenue between $250m and $500m consider digital transformation to be the highest or relatively high in strategic priority.
