CIO Association of India (CAI) conducted a survey to understand how CIOs perceive enterprise mobility and what factors influence the decision making. Here I am sharing some of the key findings related to Blackberry.

• BlackBerry is the most popular enterprise mobility platform.

BlackBerry leads as the popular platform with 80% of the respondents indicating that their companies currently use it. However, many companies also support more than one platform, including the iPhone, Android, Symbian, and Windows Mobile.

• BlackBerry is the preferred solution partner for most respondents.

This is true of respondents across industries, and large and small companies. A clear majority (61%) of the respondents rated it as the best platform for enterprise mobility, with the Android at a distant second (18%).

  

• BlackBerry is popular even with CIOs using other enterprise mobility platforms.

Current BlackBerry customers rated it as their preferred partner. So did the respondents using other platforms – more than 40% of iPhone, Windows Mobile, and Android users tagged it as the preferred partner.

• BlackBerry leads the deployments currently in progress, but the Android is also gaining popularity.

A majority of the respondents – about 42% – have BlackBerry platforms being currently deployed (in progress). Android is also gaining momentum with more than a third of the respondents (34.2%) using it for current deployments.

• The BlackBerry is the preferred platform across industries.

The exception to this is the Government or Public Sector, which seems to lean towards Android-based solutions. Windows has some appeal in the Hospitality segment, but across all other industries, the BlackBerry leads as the preferred platform.

CIOs prefer the BlackBerry platform for its security and ease-of-use features. This is what they say:

 

“The ease of use and intelligence of the device, backed by the security features, give it an edge over other mobile platforms/devices available.”

“Enterprise-grade, secure, proven mobile device management, stable.”

“It works best with email.”

“Vastly used and accepted by the users, cost competitiveness.”

“The BlackBerry solutions were designed for enterprise mobility itself and they remain one of the best in the industry. Other players jumped into it later, copying most of the existing features.”

“Secured, facilitation of messenger, mails and Internet access; apps for this platform are far more stable than any other platform.”

“We already have the infrastructure in place and no other brand gives the kind of response time that BlackBerry gives.”

“A study was done and this was found to be the best option based on several parameters.”

For other platforms please refer the actual report (Links are given below).

Survey was launched on 6th September, 2011, and responses accepted till 19th September, 2011. Survey was sent to the CAI member community and received 305 responses.

Download the report by clicking here : CIO Survey on Enterprise Mobility (203)

Source : http://cioresearchcenter.com/2011/11/cio-survey-on-enterprise-mobility-survey-report/