KEY FINDINGS
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
A chief challenge to meeting mobility objectives across businesses , however , was a lack of unified technologies to advance achievement .
One year later , new survey data shows businesses continue to make digital transformation progress through the use of digital workspace technologies . A smaller gap exists between potential and what businesses have achieved to date in large part because of higherlevel executive commitment and digital workspace investment .
Digital transformation is now an executive priority , with more organisations , 62 % in 2016 compared to 56 % in 2015 , recognising the power of mobility to transform their businesses and lack of adoption as an impediment . Moreover , digital workspace investment grew , with businesses citing two key goals for their decisions : increasing team productivity and business process re-engineering . Digital workspace technologies are enabling IT to meet executive business objectives with key digital workspace technology characteristics becoming critical to execution .
Organisations were found to be in various stages of implementing mobile initiatives . Overall , almost 4 out of 5 organisations , 78 % have successfully executed or are actively executing mobile initiatives .
This year ’ s survey participants reported that executives begin with a focus on team productivity , streamlining processes , and cost reduction as they look to achieve business objectives through the use of the digital workspace . And although challenges for organisations executing business mobility strategies still exist , digital workspace software is now seen as an effective way to address top-level concerns . A digital workspace delivers better security , reduces IT management cost and complexity , and enhances data loss prevention . Achieving these IT outcomes is driving nearly a third 30 % of respondents to deploy digital workspace software to achieve business mobility .
KEY FINDINGS
1Business gains outweighed operational gains with few exceptions . Companies that have successfully executed digital workspace initiatives reported higher mobile workforce effectiveness , user access to mission-critical applications , and user satisfaction with IT than nonexecuting companies .
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Costs drop significantly as businesses embrace digital workspaces and ROI averages 150 %. 41 % of IT and business decision makers saw improvements in total management costs as they successfully executed on digital workspace efforts , compared with 30 % for their nonexecuting peers . Total management cost savings showed an average reduction of 21 % for respondents reporting an improvement
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Digital workspaces improve the ability of a business to rapidly bring new revenue streams online . 48 % of those surveyed that have successfully executed mobility initiatives have seen improvements compared to 34 % surveyed that have not executed . Over half 52 % of companies surveyed executing 10 + business mobility initiatives have seen improvements in their ability to more rapidly bring new revenue streams online compared to those surveyed that are executing less than 5 mobility initiatives .
4Businesses that execute more mobility initiatives show stronger improvements across all categories . Benefits across all business , operational , and financial categories improved considerably as the number of successfully executed initiatives increased . Those that successfully executed 10 + initiatives were consistently higher than those that executed 5-9 initiatives and those that successfully executed less than 5 initiatives , particularly in the business category . Similarly , across all categories , those that executed 5-9 initiatives remained consistently higher than those that successfully executed less than 5 initiatives .
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Digital workspace reduces business mobility adoption friction , address top concerns , and include security and identity management as vital components . Concerns about security are top of mind among executives but nearly one out of every two executives 45 % views a digital workspace solution as a way to address compliance and security risks .
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VMware customers selfidentify as digital enterprises significantly more often than non-customers 84 % versus 77 %. Nearly two-thirds of VMware customers surveyed 61 % are planning more than 50 mobile initiatives in the next 12 months compared to VMware non-customers surveyed 47 %. In response to the same business , operational , and financial questions , VMware customers surveyed reported achieving higher ROI than organisations deploying other technologies . VMware customers also identified more necessary elements to creating a digital workspace platform than non-VMware customers .
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In majority of cases , the directive to reimagine business processes and deploy digital workspace technology is coming from a strategic push at the corporate level .
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