ABSTRACT

This chapter provides a high-level overview on enterprise mobility. Enterprise mobility is the term broadly used to mean any mobility solution that is launched by an enterprise to increase profits or to reduce costs. Partner or supply chain mobility deals with applications provided by the enterprise for channel partners. There is a strong trend for business transformation as more and more enterprise roles demand mobility for productive work execution. Mobility enablement has been incorporated as a key business strategy by most enterprises for 2010 and 2011, due to its immense potential in achieving two essential enterprise goals: increased profits and reduced costs. The following are the different variations of internal enterprise mobility: these are operational or field workforce mobility, partner or supply chain mobility and employee-centric mobility. Operational or field workforce mobility deals with mobile applications that are intended to bring down the operational expenditure of the enterprise.