Mobility Trends for 2016
Wearables makes Internet of things real for consumers
As predicted by Gartner, the Internet of Things (IoT) will result in approximately 26 billion connected units by the2020. The revenue generated with respect of IoT products and services will cross $300 billion-mark which provides a plethora of opportunities for organisations across sectors. In order to lead this change, individuals and enterprises will have to fasten their hold on to the open standards for improving device monitoring and management, big data information gathering and analytics; and overall network communications.
Wearables are also growing in importance as mobile commerce gathers greater acceptability among consumers. Growing digitization, device automation, innovations in security and payment gateway services as well as growth in ecosystem partners will mean that new frictionless cashless payment methods will come into vogue – through the things we wear!
Mobile and Cloud are joined at the hip
After growing at an exponential pace in 2015, cloud computing has become an integral part of the enterprise business strategy. Large global multinational firms are now looking to cloud to not only offer better front-end customer service but also to fully leverage advances in back-end manufacturing. For CIOs to be sure they are getting the cost efficiency and resource optimization the cloud promises, requires them to deploy cloud analytics solutions. In a connected device world where data resides in the cloud, mobiles are ideally placed to track the business outcomes most critical to them. Today, businesses no longer debate whether cloud and mobile analytics will work together – its about how can these two key trends be merged to create a seamless unified business management tool.
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