Preferences of Corporate-Liable Converged Mobile Device Users and the Policies of Their Organizations

This IDC study is based on a survey designed by IDC and fielded by IDC partners in August 2007 in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and India. This document focuses on the views of the 255 individuals (out of 1,780 survey respondents) that use corporate-liable converged mobile devices (CMDs). Analysis is provided for responses pertaining to corporate polices for mobile device acquisition, device purchasing channels, and standardization of mobile OS as well as the preferences of these end users with regard to features/functionality and the degree to which these users consider their CMDs to be a necessary tool to get the job done.

"The converged mobile device is becoming an indispensable tool for more mobile workers every day, as evidenced by the strong growth in shipments of such devices to both enterprises and individual business users. This is further supported by the results of an IDC survey fielded in six countries across three major regions in the world adopting mobile technologies in the enterprise: the United States, Western Europe, and Asia/Pacific," says Sean Ryan, research analyst, Mobile Enterprise Device Solutions.