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Enterprise mobility is more than just software or hardware; it's a journey undertaken by business to realise the benefits of a mobile workforce. There is a beginning to the journey, but more often than not no end. As with the introduction of other initiatives this journey tends to be circular. Here is one way of categorising the key aspects of an enterprise mobility journey.

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...

A report from the Aberdeen Research Group has revealed that over half of companies see mobile business intelligence (BI) as bringing an advantage to their organisation. The Aberdeen paper, which interviewed over 300 organisations, examined the stages of development for mobile BI, and how it can improve enterprise mobility.

Ireland-based backend as a service (BaaS) startup FeedHenry, a manufacturer of cloud-based enterprise applications, has received $9m (£5.78m) in a round of funding led by Intel Capital. The money will be used to create over 100 new jobs at the Waterford company, as well as speed up an international rollout of its product.

In a strange turn of events, the Pentagon has authorised BlackBerry (whose security was possibly questioned by the UK government) and Android-based manufacturer Samsung’s devices for use in the Department of Defense; but left Apple’s iPhone in question.

Over the last few years consumer devices have overtaken enterprise devices in a lot of ways. Many of the features originally developed for the enterprise are now leveraged in mobile phones that we all have. Does this mean it's a no brainer when it comes to choosing a device for an enterprise mobility project? Far from it - more choice brings more debate and more confusion.