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Enterprise Mobile Device Management:

How Smartphones and Tablets are

Changing Workforce IT Requirements

An ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) Survey-based Research Report

Written by Steve Brasen, EMA Managing Research Director

October 2011

Sponsored by:

IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH,

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING

IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH,

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING

Enterprise Mobile Device Management: How Smartphones

and Tablets are Changing Workforce IT Requirements

Table of Contents

Introduction ..........................................................................................................................................................1

The Evolution of Mobile IT ......................................................................................................................1

The Mobile Workforce ................................................................................................................................2

Enterprise Mobile Device Management ...................................................................................................2

Research and Methodology ................................................................................................................................3

Mobile Device Adoption ....................................................................................................................................4

Smartphones ..................................................................................................................................................4

Tablets ........................................................................................................................................................... 11

Enterprise Mobile Device Usage ................................................................................................................... 13

Challenges to Workforce Mobility ................................................................................................................. 19

Best Practices in Mobile Device Management ............................................................................................ 22

Conclusions ........................................................................................................................................................ 28

Appendix A: Demographics for End-User Survey .................................................................................... 29

Appendix B: Demographics for IT Manager Survey ................................................................................. 34

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