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According to the latest report from Forrester Research, enterprises will bypass Windows 8 as the enterprise PC OS of choice. Avid readers of this site will not see this as a huge surprise; infact, Enterprise AppsTech reported Forrester’s – and specifically Johnson’s – opinion on the issue as far back as November. Yet, with the report now released, it solidifies industry opinion – has Microsoft bitten off more than it can chew with the more radical 8 design?

Although vendors such as Samsung are venturing into the enterprise market, BlackBerry retains an edge over the competition due to customer perceptions around the relative security and vulnerability of different manufacturers’ devices. BlackBerry is well positioned in the emerging markets due to its existing footprint across consumers and the enterprise, which is based on its robust messaging and Internet access platforms.

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.

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.

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?

Huawei's Enterprise Business Group (EBG) is a $1.85bn organisation that operates internationally and whose portfolio extends from telepresence and a very mature contact center platform, through IP telephony systems and data center solutions, to BYOD solutions and GSM and LTE technologies. But as Huawei expands its market presence outside China, it is finding that it cannot necessarily be the sole provider of enterprise solutions...