In fact, according to Gartner Inc., 60 percent of IT organizations plan to deploy their own Enterprise App Stores by 2014, a sentiment echoed by a recent Partnerpedia survey which found that 58 percent of its corporate IT respondents planned to open their own app stores within the next 12 months.
Private enterprise
app stores enable IT to offer secure, vetted access to approved programs, as
well as remote management of bring-your-own devices. (Source: Partnerpedia)
"Mobile devices
and apps are the driver behind companies reformulating their enterprise
mobility strategy," said Sam Liu, vice president of marketing at
Partnerpedia, whose enterprise survey indicates that corporate thinking and
planning should move beyond just mobile apps to support laptops, desktops, and
their media files.
Apple itself has
acknowledged this trend by opening an App Store for its laptop and desktop
users, as well as integrating the kind of remote management and cloud-computing
resources assessable from its smartphones and tablets into the latest version
of it laptop and desktop operating system OS-X Mountain Lion (due out this
summer).
Partnepedia's
enterprise survey mirrors these sentiments finding that corporate users not
only support the bring-your-own-device philosophy (77 percent), allowing
corporate users to use their own favorite smartphone or tablet for company
work, but also that those same corporate users favor IT managing all their
devices including laptops (76 percent) and desktop computers (64 percent).
Nearly all
respondents favored Enterprise App Store policies that vet apps for malware,
whether they were written by enterprise IT or by third parties, and the
overwhelming majority also favored iTunes-like multi-media content distribution
for all types of content including documents like PDFs, eBooks, spreadsheets,
and videos.
The survey also asked IT managers and software
authors what formats they were planning on using to release their
next-generation apps, revealing only a slight edge to native apps, with
universal HTML5 apps being favored by nearly half the respondents.
Regarding Enterprise App Store services, over
86 percent of corporate respondents rated the need for self-service functions
as high to very high and nearly all respondents expected IT managers to use the
Enterprise App Store to control publishing, distribution and management of
approved apps to end-user devices.
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