VMware 2015 State of Business Mobility Report Finds Mobility Investments Drive Infrastructure, App and Process Changes

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - November 11, 2015) -

• Increased security is the top priority for businesses to adopt business mobility
• Nearly two-thirds of surveyed organizations have or are actively re-engineering core business processes for mobile in the next 12 months
• On average, companies embracing business mobility said they are seeing a 150 percent return on investment

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today released the VMware 2015 State of Business Mobility Report, a global survey of business decision makers and IT practitioners that examines the worldwide progress in transitioning from the client-server era to the mobile-cloud era. The report concluded that companies are beginning the business mobility transformation, shifting at least one core business process to the mobile paradigm. To support this shift, the organizations surveyed said they are upgrading infrastructure, introducing customer-facing mobile apps and reprocessing mission-critical applications for mobile employees.

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Mobility and the shift to the mobile-cloud era are among the most transformational trends in business today. With the potential to affect many employees, customers and business interactions, mobility can empower organizations to be more competitive and successful. While CIOs rank mobility as one of their highest priorities, businesses today are in varying stages of maturity when it comes to mobility, according to the VMware 2015 State of Business Mobility Report¹.

The report found a distinct separation between organizations that have executed business mobility initiatives and those that have not yet shifted business processes to a mobile structure. Of the 1,182 respondents, only 20 percent of companies have executed business mobility initiatives, transforming at least one core business process to a mobile model. These organizations said they have updated infrastructure, invested in mobile devices and rebuilt or re-engineered applications that take advantage of mobility to make the business more competitive.