Mobility is transforming businesses and industries worldwide. From communication and financial services, to entertainment and healthcare, mobility business solutions are customized to help clients in any industry address both enterprise and customer-related challenges and opportunities. Also worldwide about billions of times a day, we rely on mobile devices. Achieving seamless, high-quality and high-speed wireless connectivity that links people, business and things while keeping pace with growing demands for access to data of every nature, every time and from anywhere definitely requires more innovation with each generation of device.
Mobility is about more than wireless connectivity. Mobility combined with cloud computing is changing business – to make it more immediate, more relevant, and more intelligent. Mobility will change business by:
- Connecting Phones, Tablets, and the “Internet of Things.” Mobility and the “Internet of Things” require a company to modify its network-connectivity models as well as prepare for a massive increase in real-time information. These devices may support high-bandwidth, latency-sensitive services such as video streaming or more frequent small streams of data such as motion sensors on equipment or RFID tags. A new set of connected devices require firms to consider different interaction models such as people to people, people to things, and machine to machine (M2M). Firms should look for new or updated M2M solutions from carriers that will wirelessly connect millions of diverse devices to a network, enabling two-way communication into back-end systems.
- Rebuilding Business Processes to Work in a Mobile World. New operating systems and mobile devices will force companies to change how applications and business processes are designed. PC systems were designed with deep menu navigation while mobility-optimized systems are task oriented. Users typically want to access relevant information in one to two clicks on a mobile device, which means IT can’t simply port an application to a device. The screen size, the content, and the process aren’t optimized for the device. In the future, applications will be device-aware, location-aware and network/cloud-aware. Mobile provides real-time access to sensory information such as location, direction, vibration, humidity, and sound.
- Creating portable services. We’re moving from a world of one device per person to multiple devices per person and numerous wireless connections. Mobility will take on a new meaning because not only will devices be portable but so will content and services. The next wave will include fully portable services that use a combination of cloud storage, cloud media and remote desktop access to store, retrieve and consume content on the go.
- Supporting Multiple Personas Per Individual. While services are following the individual, IT still needs a way to separate personal data and applications from corporate data and applications. This means that software service providers will change product offerings to include at least two personas, –corporate and personal. The division between work and personal content is transparent to users unless they try to perform actions prohibited by company policy.
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