B’lore cos most mobile; beat Mumbai, Delhi
MUMBAI, AUG 22: Enterprises in Bangalore are among the most mobile-ready, giving close chase to Singapore and Bangkok when it comes using applications on mobile phones, providing laptops to employees, instituting mobile device management policies and other mobility-related criteria, according to a survey by the world’s largest handset vendor Nokia.
It was conducted across six cities — Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore.
The survey evaluated enterprises on various parameters under the heads of adoption, environment, infrastructure and policy.
Bangalore was third on the mobility-readiness index after Bangkok and Singapore, outshining Delhi, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur. Bangkok had the highest mobility score in the study followed by Singapore.
Both Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur had nearly the same level of mobile-readiness, while Delhi was lower.
The study identified mobile e-mail as one of the most popular applications with 74% of enterprises surveyed in India using some form of it. Other key findings were that 49% used a mobile calendar and 47% could access the office intranet through their mobiles.
Bangalore was better than Singapore when it came to adopting mobile applications and instituging policies that allowed employees to work from home.
However, it lagged behind when it came to providing VPN (virtual private network) access and having security policies. Mumbai scored better on these two counts as compared to Bangalore.
The top three mobile applications or solutions for enterprises, according to the study, were mobile instant messaging, accessing the intranet or corporate database on the mobile phone and accessing CRM (customer relationship management) applications on the mobile device or phone.
Source- http://www.financialexpress.com
