Crossing the Great Mobile Divide
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IT View of the Mobile Agenda
A full 66.9% of IT decision-makers feel that IT sets the mobile agenda, but 30.6% said it's actually the line of business. -
Developer View of Mobile Agenda
Most developers (49.7%) said line of business sets the agenda versus the internal IT organization (34.6%), but 15.7% said there is no primary agenda-setter at all. -
The Great Mobile Divide: Part I
Nearly 40% of IT decision-makers said they either built the mobile capability for their teams or signed an enterprise license with a vendor, but on average, only 17.9% of developers reported using these tools. -
The Great Mobile Divide: Part II
A full 70.6% of IT decision-makers who've implemented HTML5 report a positive experience. Among developers, that figure plummets to 37.2%. -
The Great Mobile Divide: Part III
In terms of mobile maturity, a majority of IT decision-makers (65.3%) report that their organizations are either “leading-edge” or “somewhat ahead.” Only 34.6% of developers agreed. -
Procurement of Mobile Development Tools
IT (61.9%) said it is in charge of that process, but only about half of developers (51.6%) agreed. -
Procurement of Mobile Application Development Services
IT makes the call here, 63.3% of the time, according to IT decision-makers, and 61.8%, according to developers. -
Mobile App Developer Shortage
There's some agreement this is a major challenge. Both developers (33.3%) and IT decision-makers (41.3%) ranked this as the top difficulty they face. -
Mobile Platforms Supported
Apple iOS and Google Android are de facto standards. The number of developers who reported their organizations support two or more mobile operating systems increased to 83.9% from 80.9% in Q4 2013. -
Faster Application Release Cycle
Developers reported faster rates of release, with 55% saying they release monthly or more frequently, up from 48.6% in Q4 2013. -
Wearable Device Interest Grows
A full 62% of IT decision-makers said this is of interest versus 52% of developers. -
The New Mobile Norm
90% of developers and 87% of IT decision-makers said it was likely or very likely that connecting mobile apps to both public and enterprise data sources would become the norm. -
Mobile Integration Targets
Custom Web services lead the internal list of services to be connected. Facebook and Twitter top the external ones.
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Why Metrics Matter to the Channel Although there's much interest in all things mobile, there's little consensus when it comes to determining who is in charge of these initiatives. A survey of 8,010 mobile developers and 121 IT decision-makers conducted by IDC on behalf of Appcelerator, a provider of mobile app development tools, found that not only is there a lot of contention over whether internal IT organizations or line of business sets the mobile agenda, but also to what degree the mobile tools acquired by the internal IT organization actually get used. For solution providers in the channel, that dichotomy creates many inherent challenges, starting with who actually owns the mobile computing budget inside any organization. After that, it's hard to discern what tools an organization is planning to acquire from the ones its developers might actually decide to use. About the only places where there is clear consensus is that the pace of mobile app development is rising, there is a shortage of mobile app developers, and that internal IT is generally in charge when it comes time to contract for external mobile app development services.