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Business Collaboration: 2015 will be the Year of Enterprise Productivity
Today’s mobile collaboration just isn’t there yet. Rather than aligning with overall business needs, today’s business mobile apps are focused more on personal productivity and task efficiency. That’s based on the results of a survey by enterprise mobile collaboration firm harmon.ie.
Highlights of the harmon.ie report include:
- IT investments are not aligned with business needs. The survey found a sharp divergence between what IT felt were mobile priorities versus what people on the business side thought.
- Mobile enterprise collaboration is focused too much on personal productivity. Most business mobile users have office-supplied email, calendar and contacts, but those users report their are few other tools provided for internal or external collaboration.
- Low marks on mobile enterprise mobility. 21 percent of IT gave their companies low marks. Just 7 percent of people on the business side said they were doing well.
- Companies often use non-secure collaboration tools. Skype and GoogleDrive are widely used by upwards of 40 percent of enterprise users.
Kevin Benedict, senior analyst for IT consulting firm Cognizant, said that “many of the greatest challenges enterprises are facing in 2014 are derived from a lack of understanding of the competitive importance of mobile and collaboration platforms, and how strategic these technologies are to their future success.”
harmon.ie predicts that 2015 will become the “Year of Mobile Enterprise productivity”. Move than 90 percent say that they businesses plan to spend as much or more on enterprise collaboration tools in 2015 as they did in 2014.
Yaacov Cohen, CEO of harmon.ie, said that “for this forecast to become a reality, enterprises need to move well beyond the current focus on personal productivity. In today’s competitive market, giving workers the ability to exchange emails, share files or send instant messages simply isn’t enough. Some enterprises are already headed in the right direction and understand the need for multi-modal, real-time collaboration to streamline projects and complete critical business processes. We expect 2015 to be a game-changing year in mobile enterprise collaboration as the focus shifts away from individual employees and onto the connected enterprise.”
