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In a January 2012 market research study, 71 percent of the businesses surveyed said that mobile devices have caused an increase in security incidents.

The year 2011 ended with a staggering 5.9 billion mobile phone subscriptions, especially significant considering that the total world population is around 7.011 billion. Of course, a direct comparison is not fair since many people have multiple subscriptions, but it represents a window into the pervasiveness of these devices and how they are an integral part of people’s lives today. For enterprises, this also represents the impending end to the old computing era and the emergence of the mobile worker. Enabling mobility in the workplace is a top-of-mind goal for decision-makers within every organization. This necessity is brought about by the consumerization of IT and the requirement to develop policies to manage the “bring-your-own-device” (BYOD) trend.

Whether you want to map directions, find a restaurant, look up your flight details, see where your next meeting is, or just check your email, chances are you do it on your smartphone. Just about everything is going mobile. Industries such as retail and financial services are going mobile to increase efficiency and generate more revenue. Mobile business apps and mobile enterprise apps have the potential to transform organizations. This white paper discusses key mobile trends and analyzes how financial services organizations must change their IT application development, testing, monitoring, and management methodologies while extending their services to multi-client mobile environments, leveraging both Native and Mobile-oriented Web apps.

Mobile technologies and cloud computing are changing what we connect, where corporate data lives, and how we transact business.

This report, which is the vision report of the mobile app development playbook for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals, focuses on the changes application developers need to understand if they want to build modern applications that deliver contextual customer experiences.

Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the Internet — and hopefully your mobile app as well — in the key moments of their day. In interviews with more than 100 mobile innovators, we have found four places where mobile engagement transforms services and processes: customer engagement, process acceleration, employee productivity, and new business services. Even at this early stage of development, you can see positive impacts of mobile engagement in apps from General Electric, Trane, and Uber Technologies. We close with a simple framework for prioritizing which apps and features people will actually use based how useful and convenient they are.

By 2014, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers, including your employees and partners and customers. However, mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken website or a screen-scraped application. Rather, mobile is the visible manifestation of a much broader shift to systems of engagement that marry physical context and digital intelligence to deliver service directly into a person's hands. This shift will add value and take cost out of every business service, workflow process, and business application. But mobile engagement will also require wholesale changes to your app design, service delivery, IT skills, technology assets, and even your business model. This report lays out a vision for mobile engagement and introduces the strategic elements developed further in The CIO's Mobile Engagement playbook.

Successful mobile apps, especially enterprise mobile apps, typically need to interact with a well-architected set of back-end services, but most mobile app developers are more skilled at client-side front-end development. Enter mobile back-end-as-a-service (BaaS), a new set of hosted platforms that addresses the gap between front-end development proficiency and back-end infrastructure requirements. Enterprise-class back-end-as-a-service addresses scalability while providing an integration platform into existing enterprise services. Use this research as your guidebook to navigating the emerging BaaS landscape.

This whitepaper reveals research findings on the total cost of ownership (TCO) and security for the major mobile platforms: Apple iOS, Google Android™, BlackBerry®, Windows Phone and Nokia Symbian.

Ricoh Canada’s Director of Infrastructure and Operations speaks about his enthusiasm for BlackBerry® 10 devices, his findings after testing BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10, and plans to port a field service application to the new platform.

Mobile Computing Corp Inc. (MCC) specializes in mobile field service solutions. After a rigorous trial period, the company’s CEO concluded that “the strength of BlackBerry 10 is great.” Find out what made the experience so positive.

McCain Foods Ltd. and Air Canada are long-time BlackBerry® customers. In this short video, senior IT leaders from both companies explain why they see BlackBerry® 10 as the natural evolution of their mobile strategy.

Mobile Computing Corp Inc. (MCC) specializes in mobile field service solutions. After a rigorous trial period, the company’s CEO concluded that “the strength of BlackBerry 10 is great.” Find out what made the experience so positive.

In this case study, Ricoh Canada’s Director of Infrastructure and Operations speaks about his enthusiasm for BlackBerry® 10 devices, his findings after testing BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10 and plans to port service to the Blackberry platform.

BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10 is designed to help organizations like yours address the full spectrum of Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) challenges. In this webcast, find out what senior IT leaders like most about it.

Find out how to take advantage of special services, tools and offers – so your organization can make the most of BlackBerry® 10 from day one.

Find out about innovative tools for Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) including BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10, and get all the details on the BlackBerry® software and services roadmap.

Smartphone, tablet computer and ultrabook purchases number in the hundreds of millions per year. This onslaught of devices underscores the move to mobility in many organizations. Read on to learn how CDW helps in building end to end mobile strategy.

We get the issues - as mobility is taking productivity to new places, complexity is taking IT departments for a ride. Read this white paper to learn how CDW can help deliver the solutions to meet your mobile application management needs.

The fact is that IT may be in the dark about who is using mobile devices to access company data.

An infographic showcasing the necessity of defending mobile devices.

Sending and receiving encrypted email with sensitive data should be a lot easier to do. But it ends up being something painful, and as a result we tend to avoid this protection.

If there are any lingering doubts that mobile de-vices-such as smartphones and tablets-have profoundly transformed today's business, one study finds that using smart devices for produc-tivity is "now the standard.

Read this white paper to learn how marketers are using IBM technology to learn about their customers' attitudes, preferences and buying habits from what they say on publicly available social media and through the full range of interactions that can be recorded, measured and analyzed. Discover how marketers are combining that knowledge with other sources of customer information to guide marketing decisions and shape marketing campaigns, cultivating relationships with online advocates to help steer product development, and, ultimately, boosting sales and revenue.