<\/a><\/p>\nNed May is SVP, IT Services Research, HfS (Click for bio)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
What I recommend for anyone tasked with driving a Mobility initiative in their organization, is to take a step back from whatever point solution they are looking to enable or refine, and to conduct a more thorough assessment of their organization\u2019s overall Mobility readiness. Before another dollar is spent on development, a cohesive Mobility strategy is required \u2013 even if the short term recommendation from that strategy is to continue letting individual departments add the mobile interfaces they need. Nearly every service provider I spoke with for this report has this type of offering in place to conduct these assessments. Many, if not most, will even provide this for free, yet very few enterprises took advantage of this in 2014.<\/p>\n
And how did the Winners shake out?<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe Winner\u2019s Circle Features a Mix of provider groups and strategies. The four leaders in our analysis represent a diverse mix of strengths and strategies:<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0Accenture <\/strong>brings deep vertical industry expertise grounded in business needs and by combining this with a significant investments within user experience and UI design it has the ability to produce truly transformative mobile initiatives at global scale.<\/strong><\/li>\nIBM <\/strong>made its mantra of MobilityFirst one of its four key corporate initiatives for 2014 and with its broad portfolio of proprietary platforms \u2013 many of which are some of the leading tools within Mobility \u2013 the company is in a great position to deliver on that promise.<\/strong><\/li>\nInfosys <\/strong>has <\/strong>a robust portfolio of proprietary IP and solutions that allows it to more quickly address many Enterprise Mobility needs at relatively low cost. <\/strong><\/li>\nTech Mahindra\u2019s <\/strong>roots lie in the telecom industry a space it continues to serve deeply today and in doing so it brings a deep understanding around the future evolution of devices and networks that helps it meets the future needs of an enterprise. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nClose behind the ranking of these four providers were another seven that made it into our High Performers group. These seven were loosely clumped into two subgroups \u2013 one group excelling in execution and the other in innovation. The innovators were iGate, Tieto, Cognizant and Capgemini and those stronger in execution were HP, EPAM, and Virtusa though it should be noted that each brought strengths in the other areas as well.<\/p>\n
Net-net, Ned, what are the key takeaways?<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe Market Remains Immature: <\/strong>Though we identify five service providers in our Winner\u2019s Circle and another six High Performers, there is considerable room for every service provider to move up and to the right. We expect the market to look very different in a year\u2019s time.<\/span><\/p>\nService Provider Capabilities Span Three Areas \u2013 Application Development, Integration, & Transformation: <\/strong>Enterprise buyers are advised to carefully assess their unique needs and make sure they engage with an appropriate service provider within one of these three. Boutique App developers will serve some buyer needs the best while leaving others without the solution they need.\u00a0 The same goes for a skilled integrator that might be lacking strength in up front UX \/ UI design.<\/p>\nThe Market as a Whole Skews toward Innovation: <\/strong>On average, every service provider ranked higher on the scale of innovation then they did on execution highlighting the challenge of delivering excellence in a rapidly emerging market. This provides an opening for any service provider excelling in this regard.<\/p>\nMobility Is Not Just a Device: <\/strong>Leading service providers are recognizing Mobility is about untethered data and not merely communicating to a screen on a phone. Offerings in telematics and efforts to make use of this data will be a big theme in 2014.<\/p>\nMobility is Becoming Commoditized: <\/strong>Despite the relative immaturity of the market as a whole, parts of it are already rapidly becoming commoditized. e.g. Device Management an area that has seen a wave of roll up acquisition activity is now seeing SaaS like offerings that aim to simplify \u2013 even automate \u2013 the task.<\/p>\nThanks, Ned, for an excellent synopsis of the new Blueprint<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nHfS subscribers can\u00a0click here<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0to download their copy of the 2014 Enterprise Mobility Services\u00a0Blueprint Report<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You only need to face the simple fact that 50% of corporate office space (in the US alone) is now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,51,61,63,64,65,78,84,832,99],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[19],"yoast_head":"\n
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