2012 has been a great year of growth for the enterprise mobility industry as more and more companies, both big and small, are implementing BYOD and mobility software to their workforces. It was arguably the biggest year for BYOD and enterprise mobility at large to date. Many in the industry believe the associated trends we predict below, will continue to increase throughout the coming year.
The rise of bring your own device (BYOD) and enterprise-friendly devices and apps have 
transitioned to countless productivity hours from agile and remote workforces that are constantly prepared to assist clients.
While enterprise mobility is still very new in most industries, the Aberdeen Group recently published a blog post explaining how BYOD has underwent significant and steady growth since 2008, when businesses began allowing employees to use their devices for business processes.
The growing comfort level with BYOD and its associated mobile security solutions has allowed the trend to become more common in businesses around the world. The rate of transitioning will further by driven by new smartphones and tablets that hit the market, inevitably attracting the attention of employees who are continuing to drive the consumerization of IT.
For most of 2012, companies were focused on managing the initial push toward (and the cost and security issues related to) Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Apple, Android and Windows tablets and smartphones continued to replace Blackberries in the corporate world, and IT struggled to adapt to this trend and provide basic mobile access for employees who asked for it. Initially, however, this only meant enabling basic email and calendaring functions on employees’ consumer-driven iPhones, Galaxies, Droids, and the like.
In 2013, with Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies that make it possible for non-IT employees to create bi-directional enterprise-to-mobile interactivity in a matter of minutes, companies will focus on bringing more sophisticated mobile functionality to their employees – enterprise functionality that resembles the consumer apps that employees perceive as the new normal.
Those mobile enterprise apps will allow employees to access and interact with real-time data on a handheld device. Plus, as a cloud-based technology, PaaS will provide essentially infinite scalability, supporting and delivering mobile access to, literally, thousands of tasks used by thousands of employees in major corporations or just a few dozen in SMBs. And that access to enterprise applications and data will – by providing real time information that can be acted on immediately from anywhere at any time – accelerate the pace of decision-making, improve operations, and increase employee productivity.
In short, 2013 is shaping up to be a year of growth for enterprise mobility and enterprise applications.
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