Tablet use among small business and mid-sized business may make up just a small sliver of device sales at the moment, but recent research from AMI-Partners indicates that this could change very soon, as the trend towards tablets and mobility gains even more momentum among business users. "SMB adoption is expected to accelerate as broadband speeds increase and heightened competition drives prices down," says AMI analyst Michael McDonald. Big changes are underway for the tablet market, in terms of product pricing, and that will drive adoption. Plus, tablet users are viewed as being more productive than non-tablet users. Here's the scoop on some of AMI's numbers and why your customers may benefit from tablet deployment.
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SMB tablet penetration is only at about 3 percent at the moment.
However, firms that do embrace tablets and other mobile devices tend to generate 40 percent higher revenue growth than their non-mobile counterparts.
AMI expects tablet prices to decrease by close to 50 percent by 2013.
SMBs with tablets use SaaS applications 20 percent more than those that do not.
Companies that leverage tablets tend to take advantage of hosted document collaboration twice as much as those without tablets.
Similarly, use of hosted productivity suites is 50 percent higher at companies that embrace tablets.
Bandwidth speeds are also 10 percent higher at tablet companies than at non-tablet organizations.
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