Top Enterprise Mobility Predictions for 2014 Chris Marsh, Principal Analyst, Yankee Group 18

Top Enterprise Mobility
Predictions for 2014
Chris Marsh, Principal Analyst, Yankee Group
18th February 2014
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Agenda
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Reviewing our 2013 predictions
What lies behind 2014’s predictions
2014 predictions
Q&A
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Reviewing Our 2013 Predictions
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Tablet penetration in the enterprise flattens out
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Execs & IT drive mobile strategizing despite LOB hype
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A big IT shop acquires an EMM vendor
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Over 50% of companies deliver mobile apps in the cloud
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MBaaS vendors shift to focus on the enterprise market
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Solution marketing will be simplified
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Small integrator boutiques proliferate
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Design-thinking hailed in product management
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80% of companies take the BYOx plunge
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10. FreeMove Alliance harmonizes EMM procurement
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What Lies Behind Our 2014 Predictions
What is stalling enterprises’ mobile maturity:
 Complexity, cost and new technology disruptions
make for tentative enterprises fearful of a weak ROI
Market synthesis will drive deployment innovation:
 From point services to solutions and platforms
 Open standards moving from niche to core
 Solutions’ value passes from feature to operations
 M&A grows significantly
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Enterprise IT Will Remain Largely Unchanged
by Mobility
Upshot: While some things have shifted over the past few years, most of
the fundamentals of enterprise IT and the majority of workflows have gone
untouched by mobility. The proportion of employees using a smartphone
for work has doubled over the past four years to 60%, but most employees
are no more mobile day-to-day; companies’ mobilization priorities are only
very slowly moving beyond field/sales-force and customer-facing use
cases; core enterprise IT suppliers continue; and key challenges and key
enterprise concerns remain the same.
Companies with a comprehensive mobile strategy rethinking
their application architectures, legacy non-mobile IT
suppliers (for now), innovative mobile-focused solution
providers ready for enterprise change
Companies without a comprehensive mobile strategy, the
broad non-mobile workforce
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Enterprise ‘Mobile Strategy’ Will Continue
To Just Mean Basic Policy
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Enterprise ‘Mobile Strategy’ Will Continue
To Just Mean Basic Policy
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Enterprise ‘Mobile Strategy’ Will Continue
To Just Mean Basic Policy
Upshot: The proportion of companies with any kind of strategy has grown
steadily; however, a third of all companies are still without any strategy.
Cross-disciplinary coordination is weak: 54% of IT departments believe
they are key in the strategy compared to only 25% of lines of business
believing them to be so. Most “strategy” is device provisioning, basic policy
enforcement, and the black- and white-listing of applications.
Companies with a comprehensive mobile strategy,
integrators and consultancies like Mobiquity and Mubaloo
offering affordable strategy advisory
Companies that think usage policy is strategy
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone Will Close the
Gap With the Android-Apple Duopoly
Upshot: Windows Phone still badly lags Apple and Android when it comes
to consumer and IT support. Only 3% of IT decision-makers said it was their
preferred platform at the end of 2013, compared to 11% favoring
BlackBerry, 40% iOS and 46% Android. However, this will begin to change
in 2014. Microsoft will introduce new enterprise features and is gathering
interest from potential solution partners like Tier 1 EMM vendors and
developers. By year end it will be pushing BlackBerry for third place.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, employee smartphone users,
enterprise IT
Blackberry
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Big IT Will Drive Consolidation of EMM, API
Management, MADTs and ALM
Upshot: The enterprise technology battleground is mobility with
applications and data, not devices, as the focal point. Mobile application
development tools (MADTs), API management platforms and application
lifecycle management (ALM) services will be key enablers, and enterprise
mobility management (EMM) will be needed to manage policy, security
and compliance. With AirWatch’s acquisition by VMware starting this year
with a bang, the next waves of industry consolidation will be driven by “Big
IT” around these key capabilities.
Leading vendors including AnyPresence, FeedHenry, KidoZen,
Apigee, Perfecto, SmartBear and MobileIron and the IT
vendors that might acquire them; developers looking for
more integrated workflows
Weak pure-play vendors in hot market segments facing
commoditization or those without an exit strategy, large IT
vendors without a mobile solution acquisition strategy
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Solution Providers Prioritizing Integrated
DevOps Will Become Market Leaders
Upshot: 56% of enterprises will be increasing their in-house and 29% their
outsourced development over the next year. However, there is still a lot of
hesitancy to invest in mobile applications projects for fear of a poor return
from ineffective tools and siloed implementations that are difficult to
maintain. Whether mobile application development tools or platforms,
quality assurance and testing services or other developer offerings,
solution providers will build in DevOps much more deeply to provide more
collaborative and integrated workflows.
Developer-focused solutions offering collaborative life cycle
workflows, companies focusing on “shallow IT” and those
looking to scale development projects
Companies without any kind of mobile strategy and budgets
for applications projects, developer solutions providing a
poor user experience
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The Leading Mobile Application Platforms
Will Extensively Support Open Standards
Upshot: The traditional model of very proprietary technology platforms
known by the ‘MEAP’ moniker is dying a swift death. Mobile application
platforms are increasingly prioritizing open and extensible architectures.
Support for standards like OData, RESTful interactions, OAuth as an open
standard gaining support around authentication, and HTML5 and for opensource third party front-end development tools will become commonplace.
Platforms such as FeedHenry, AnyPresence, SAP,
Appcelerator and IBM
Traditional MEAPs offering exclusively proprietary and
locked-in environments
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Poor User Experience Will Pop Mobile
CRM’s Bubble
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Poor User Experience Will Pop Mobile
CRM’s Bubble
Upshot: Mobile enterprise apps are not a new thing -- Yankee Group has
been writing about mobile CRM for over a decade. However, there is still
plenty of room for improvement. Mobile sales and service applications will
continue to fail to deliver on expected business benefits if they remain
siloed, application-centric experiences and not process-oriented integrating
across frequently used apps such as calendar and e-mail access, customer
contact info, case history, pricing, current opportunities, etc.
SAP, Pegasystems and mobile sales enablement companies
such as Mobile Mutual, SAVO and Via Deliver
Oracle and Microsoft, while by no means true losers, are not
delivering on the ability to truly help their customers’ mobile
experience by staying very application-centric
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The Market for Beacon Solutions Will Boom
as Enterprises Search for Hyper-Local
Context
Upshot: Beacons are low-energy Bluetooth-based transmitters (BLE)
whose signals can be picked up by mobile devices. Apple and PayPal have
already showcased very scalable concepts. The potential use cases for both
B2C and B2B solutions are exploding. Beacons have the potential to deliver
on the long-held promise in enterprise mobility of more accurate enterprise
data logging and location-based targeting. Although it’s a nascent market,
this year will see a boom in interest in beacon deployments.
Mobile application developers like Mubaloo seeing the
opportunity early, beacon manufacturers like Estimote, large
IT vendors expanding existing mobile solutions
NFC solutions and device OEMs not supporting BLE
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Enterprise Software Giants Will Spur M2M
M&A
Upshot: The market for machine-to-machine (M2M) data capture solutions
begins to cross the chasm from proprietary solution stacks to extending
horizontal IT enterprise architecture. The PTC acquisition of ThingWorx was
the first of several to come, with specialists such as Axeda, ILS and Jasper
Wireless logical targets given their expertise and market traction. IT
decision-makers new to M2M will place a premium on platforms that
extend existing IT architecture with an appropriate amount of emphasis on
security and a management interface.
M2M app platform targets such as ILS, Cumulocity or Axeda
and enterprise software giants such as HP, SAP, Oracle or IBM
required to pay steep premiums
M2M app platform vendors that miss out on the
consolidation phase during next 18 months
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Systems Integrators Target the Enterprise
Wearable Technology Market
Upshot: Today’s consumer-centric wearable tech devices epitomize a pitfall
of mobile R&D, creating solutions that are in search of a problem to solve.
The enterprise profile is quite the opposite, with multinational companies
really needing wearable applications but just not knowing it yet. It will be
up to systems integrators (SIs) and others of similar stature to execute on
the promise of wearables for the enterprise. In the coming year, we expect
a number will rise to the occasion.
SIs such as Accenture and SAP that get in on the opportunity;
large MNOs like Verizon, AT&T, Vodafone and France Telecom
will also capture connectivity revenues
Non-adopters in sectors with clear use cases, e.g., logistics,
manufacturing, health care and technical support; also,
device OEMs not embedding connectivity
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