They’re Here: Enterprise Mobile Apps Have Arrived
While the consumer mobile app market continues to grow by leaps and bounds, enterprise mobile apps lag behind their consumer counterparts. VisionMobile projects that these markets will double in size in the next few years, reaching $58 billion by 2016–and that’s just in North America. Read more about Custom application development . These numbers however, refer mainly to the non-business world. Apps are pretty ubiquitous in our personal lives, as we play games, check our bank balances, and control our home alarm systems through apps on our smartphones and tablets. In the business world, however, adoption rates are notoriously slow. It’s not surprising, since enterprise companies have longer processes to spend their money. Or adopt new technologies. Enterprises dipped their toes in the mobile world through mobile devices like iPhones and tablets for executives. As they’ve become more comfortable with the notion of efficiency, optimization, and productivity for their employees, t...