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VMware study suggests that aggregating devices, applications and services through a common access, will provide businesses the edge in 2017 ... Say hello to the Mobile-Cloud era
Tomorrow's most successful enterprises will be implementing a combo of mobility and the Cloud. This is the key take away from VMware's just-released 2016 State of the Digital Workspace Report, a global survey of business and IT decision makers.
The report suggests that organizations taking a digital workspace-first approach, ie, aggregating devices, applications and services and securely managing them through a common access and identity, will experience business, operational, and financial benefits compared to those that don't.
And key to this is mobile business. Says VMware's Dave Grant, Vice President, product marketing, End-User Computing: “As we enter 2017, the industry is moving into the next phase of enterprise mobility where businesses have to deliver access to applications and resources to end-users, customers and partners using any connected device in any location.”
The Report suggests that Digital Workspaces bring benefits like significant cost saving and return on investment(ROI):
- ROI from business mobility investments averaged 150 percent overall.41 percent of IT and business decision makers saw improvements in total management costs after successfully executing on digital workspace efforts
- Only 30 percent of their non-executing peers realized improvements.
- Some 39 percent of decision-makers realized cost improvements to support end–users after embracing digital workspaces (compared to 23 percent among those that did not).
- Nearly half of organizations (48 percent) that have successfully executed mobility initiatives saw improvements in their ability to more rapidly introduce new revenue streams, compared to 34 percent among organizations that have not executed a single initiative.
Many executives view Digital Workspaces as a way to address some pressing concerns -- like security and identity management
The State of the Digital Workspace Report is based a survey of 1,263 business decision makers (BDMs) and IT influencers to examine the worldwide progress in transitioning from the client-server era to the mobile-cloud era.
