Everyone has seen the bold predictions and hype filled IT news reports. The sale of smart phones has eclipsed the sale of PCs. The global mobile applications market is expected to be worth $25 billion in 2015, growing at a CAGR of 29.6 percent from 2010 to 2015. Furthermore the use of mobile phones to access the Internet is growing exponentially. It is expected that around 10 billion mobile internet devices will be in use by 2020. This growth leads us to the point where mobile phones will be the predominant ‘computer’ in use by the masses and in a dramatic rapid fashion opens up a new age of computing.

One common perception about this current wave of growth in mobile technology is that it is based, in large part, on the growth in use of mobile phones and the development of mobile applications; applications that reside on one’s mobile phone or tablet and operate in a stand-alone fashion. However, a more fundamental change is occurring. Enterprises are becoming mobile. Wireless and mobile technology is empowering enterprises to change their existing internal workflows and engage with external suppliers, partners, and customers in exciting new ways, new ways that bring together real-time updates with on-the-go workforce.

Enterprise Mobility consists of many components including the mobile phones, smart and otherwise, tablets, operating systems, wireless networks, security tools, middleware, application platforms, and mobile applications. However, it is important to note that true enterprise mobility draws upon the existing information stores of an organization - its legacy systems, its existing communication/social networks, its content management systems. It expands the boundaries of the 'enterprise architecture' to incorporate field activities and the systems that serve them. This new empowerment or IT discipline is generally called Enterprise Mobility.

Enterprise Mobility enables information to be captured and consumed at the point of the work activity— in the field or outside the standard office environment. This leads to better productivity and can improve decision making.

In highly mobile workers, such as health care professionals, engineers, or sales representatives, this can be transformative. The transformation is beyond productivity and cost savings. The transformation can create new business models, new sources of revenue and new operating models.