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Enterprise social media is currently one of the most hyped technologies in business, which has led to a wide range of companies and organisations jumping on the bandwagon, but also to a lot of denial of the disruption it brings to the enterprise. Let's take away the hype and seriously look at where the true value of enterprise social media lies, and why it is disruptive in ways that many organisations haven't really understood yet.

One in three mobile development teams is either ‘middling’, ‘sluggish’ or ‘outpaced’, according to a survey from Micro Focus, undertaken by independent survey specialists Vanson Bourne. The research results, taken from almost 600 CIOs, question the speed of enterprise app development and deployment, and whether mobile teams can keep up the pace.

Most of us are familiar with BlackBerry, formerly Research in Motion; a technology giant that dominated the mobility mountain for nearly a decade, only to come crashing down as hundreds of millions of iPhones and Android devices entered the enterprise. But the rise and fall of BB is just the opening act. There is a far more fascinating drama playing out within enterprise mobility today.

A report from HIMSS Analytics has found that use of mobile devices, security, data storage and information exchange are the biggest IT barriers facing healthcare today. The report, a focus group of seven senior IT healthcare professionals, particularly found severe worry with the BYOD trend, with the biggest concern to the participants being IT’s lack of control concerning managing mobile devices.

Nearly every day features news of high-profile hacks; clearly the “old school” password just doesn’t cut it anymore. PayPal’s chief information security officer Michael Barrett certainly agrees.

The mobile content management (MCM) space is predicted to hit over 110 million subscribers by 2018, according to the latest report from ABI Research. According to the ABI study, entitled ‘Enterprise Mobility Applications and Services Research Service’, there is determined growth in the sphere, with North America and Western Europe the strongest-growing markets year on year.

I wish I could tell you that mobilising an enterprise was always easy. Like with most things worth doing, there are challenges to success. Now, I don't want to put you off mobility in any way - I did, however, want to group the tricks and traps into some sensible categories. Here are the challenges to enterprise mobility...

Of the nearly 100 survey respondents, an overwhelming 95% said their company had “embraced” bring your own device, allowing employees to connect to the corporate network through a multitude of devices – and of that, 97% used laptops, compared to 79% with smartphones and 70% with tablets. Yet only 33% of respondents said they had a full strategy and set of rules in place about BYOD. What's the overall importance of this?