40 Percent of Fortune 500 Companies Claim Their Biggest Mobile Challenge Is Developing Across Multiple Operating Systems and Devices
Kony's Second Annual Mobile Marketing and Commerce Study Provides Insight Into Fortune 500 Companies' Evolving Mobile Strategies
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Kony's survey of Fortune 500 companies reveals that 40 percent of organizations believe developing applications across multiple operating systems and devices is the biggest challenge in their mobile strategy
The survey also found that 89 percent of companies believe they can receive the funding necessary for their mobile strategy with little or no effort
Kony enables enterprises to offer consumers and employees feature-rich mobile applications in less time and at lower costs than any other solution
Today's fragmented mobile landscape is directly affecting many organizations' mobile plans, with 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies stating that developing applications across multiple operating systems and devices is the biggest challenge to their mobile strategy. Other top challenges ranked by corporations include keeping up with changes in the mobile market (27 percent) and supporting connectivity and technology challenges/updates (20 percent).
These findings come from the second annual Mobile Marketing and Commerce Study commissioned by , the leading mobile platform provider. The study surveyed Fortune 500 corporations to uncover valuable information relating to their mobile computing challenges and strategic initiatives.
Highlighting the confusion over the muddled mobile space, the iPhone retained its position as the highest-prioritized operating system for companies to support for the second year in a row. This is despite Nielsen's recent report stating Android among mobile operating systems. Android comes in as the second-highest priority for the second year in a row, with BlackBerry falling to third place on the list (it had previously tied with Android in ).
"As companies increasingly look to mobile to help them achieve strategic business goals, they are faced with very real challenges due to the fragmentation of the mobile industry," said Raj Koneru, founder and CEO of Kony. "With the rate at which the mobile landscape is evolving, it's vital for these companies to choose a partner with capabilities across a multitude of devices and channels, including tablets, to ensure their offering reaches their full customer base."
In a , Gartner predicted that nearly 70 million tablets would be sold worldwide in 2011. When considering how rapidly the tablet market is growing, along with the vast potential that the iPad and other tablets offer businesses, it's surprising that the survey reveals only 25 percent of respondents have plans to deploy a tablet offering in the near future. On top of that, only 2 percent of respondents believe developing an offering for the iPad is a priority.
The lack of urgency these companies are taking toward developing tablet offerings is not due to lack of resources. In fact, the survey revealed that many companies are now finding it easier to procure necessary funding to develop and deploy their mobile offerings. 89 percent of respondents expressed they can obtain funding with reasonable or little effort; up from 73 percent in Kony's 2010 survey. Along with this, only 11 percent of companies find it difficult to fund their mobile initiatives, a figure that is down from 27 percent a year ago.
"The internal debate at many organizations is no longer about whether or not they need a mobile offering, but about the most effective way to develop and deploy one across all devices and operating systems," Koneru added. "We address this problem head on, having built our platform from the ground up to develop, deploy and maintain offerings across numerous devices, operating systems and channels."
To download the full report on Kony's Second Annual Mobile Marketing and Commerce Study, please visit .
Kony enables enterprises to offer consumers and employees feature-rich mobile applications in less time and at lower costs than any other solution. Leveraging a single application definition, applications are designed and developed just once, in a device-independent manner, and deployed across more than 9,000 devices, 15 operating systems and multiple channels, including native applications, HTML5 and device-optimized mobile web, SMS, web gadgets, kiosks, and tablets without compromises. Kony's unique platform is proven to future-proof a company's mobile investment by enabling applications to be changed once for all channels, ensuring faster adoption of new operating systems and standards as they are introduced, while eliminating maintenance, upgrade and future development costs.
In 2011 Kony was positioned as a "Visionary" in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Consumer Application Platforms (MCAP) report by William Clark, Michael J. King and Linda Dozier. Kony has been named a Cool Vendor, a by the American Business Awards and was chosen as one of 100 innovative Apple-affiliated achievers.
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