Sybase White Paper Sample

Business and IT managers alike have known for years that information is the fuel that powers business success. The ability to collect, integrate, secure, analyze and move business-critical information to end-users wherever they may be is often the key differentiator between market leaders and runners-up.

As enterprises grow increasingly mobile, with upwards of 35 percent of employees working outside corporate offices and untethered from hard wired enterprise information systems, IT departments face a myriad of new challenges. These include monitoring, managing and securing multiple mobile device types and brands ranging from notebook PCs to PDAs, smartphones and industrial handhelds.

The number of mobile workers will continue to soar. One recent estimate predicts that more than 70 percent of the workforce in the United States will be mobile within just the next couple of years. Clearly, enterprise mobility is no longer an experiment or a series of pilot projects. Its effectiveness in increasing organizations’ competitive advantage, enabling mobile workers to identify and seize opportunities at the point of action, is by now well established. The challenges this trend creates for IT departments go beyond relatively straightforward device monitoring, management and security tasks such as configuration, updating software and protecting sensitive information...