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Mobile: CIOs Increase Enterprise Investments in Mobility

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises are expected to increase mobility spending by 50 percent over the next 24 months, based on a survey conducted by CIO and sponsored by Oracle.

Some of the other findings from the survey of more than 400 CIOs are as follows:

Security

  • 93 percent worry about data loss and security breaches resulting from BYOD policies
  • Organizations say to beef up security they plan to focus on:
    – Device Data Encryption
    – Centralized updating and troubleshooting
    – Remote wiping of data
    – Lockdown features

Mobile Devices

  • IT departments spend, on average, $157 per employee on mobile devices, a number expected to grow to $242 over the next two years

Mobile Apps

  • 30 percent of IT development is spent on mobile apps
  • Mobile apps offered by IT departments change frequently.  More than one third update their app portfolio at least monthly and another third do it at least quarterly.
  • 44 percent of the app portfolio is internally developed
  • 84 percent said that sales and marketing play the biggest part in influencing how internal applications are developed
  • 75 percent of those surveyed said cloud computing was very important for mobile development
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