Gartner Predicts 20% of BYOD Programs Will Fail in the Next Two Years
Gartner Predicts 20% of BYOD Programs Will Fail in the Next Two Years by UCStrategies Staff
IT research firm Gartner, Inc. has predicted that by 2016, 20 percent of enterprise BYOD programs will not succeed because their mobile device management (MDM) implementations would be too restrictive.
The BYOD phenomenon has resulted in the rapid influx of employee-owned computing devices in the workplace, which has led many IT organizations to deploy MDM solutions. However, as BYOD programs gain popularity, workers are becoming more and more aware of their IT department’s ability to access their personal information. This, in turn, makes employees more sensitive to allowing IT department’s access to their personal mobile devices. Employees are then insisting on solutions that enable their personal information to be isolated from business-related content, essentially restricting the ability of their organization’s IT department to access or modify their personal data and applications.
“Whether via formal BYOD programmes, or just via devices coming in the back door and being configured to access corporate systems, the use of consumer technologies in the work environment presents a threat to IT control of endpoint computing resources,” said Ken Dulaney, vice president and analyst at Gartner. “Given the control that IT has exercised over personal computers by developing and deploying images to company-managed PCs, many IT organisations will implement strong controls for mobile devices.”
As part of its global mobility market forecast for 2014, Gartner also discussed in its report, “Predicts 2014: Mobile and Wireless,” the company’s predictions for consumer mobile apps and mobile browsers.
Through 2018, less than 0.01 percent of consumer mobile apps will bring in profits to their developers, according to Gartner. This is due to the huge number of mobile apps available and the tendency of consumers to discover mobile apps via recommendation engines, friends, social networking, or advertising instead of going through the thousands of mobile apps made available to them.
Dulaney said that majority of mobile apps do not yield profits and that many of them are not designed to be revenue-generating but for fostering brand recognition and product awareness, as well as being developed “just for fun.”
By 2017, and with 50 percent of new web applications involving sophisticated client-side JavaScript, Gartner expects that the mobile browser will be used as an advanced platform for application delivery. The platform-neutral and widely available HTML5 will be the best option for applications delivery. This is because of HTML5’s ability to deliver complex applications while still ensuring a decent user experience. However, Gartner predicts that for several years, developers will be confronted by issues such as fragmentation, immaturity, and performance. (KOM) Link. Link.