Clinton Jacobs, analyst at local research firm BMI-TechKnowledge (BMI-T), points out that the term enterprise mobility may mean different things to different people, especially how it influences the business-IT dynamic. Accordingly, he poses the first question: “What, exactly, is enterprise mobility?”

Lindsay Britz, marketing manager, Magic Software SA, suggests that enterprise mobility involves mobilising business processes on the device, whether it’s the desktop, the tablet or the smartphone. She adds a caveat that the process can be complicated by development issues such as back-end integration and the need for multiple security layers.