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Friday, June 14, 2013

BYOD was back in Europe while it expands in North America and Asia

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In the first quarter of the year in Western Europe has experienced a reduction of 15% year on year in the adoption of strategies BYOD, increase investment in corporate smartphones.

A recent study by Cisco and BT has been shown that only 1 out of 3 companies around the world have signed up to the BYOD policy, allowing employees to take their own devices to work.

Although 84% of technological enterprises managers believed that you a political BYOD can offer an good competitive advantage, only 36% of the companies has developed a strategy of this kind, according to the study.

However, a new survey conducted by the firm consultant Strategy Analytics has yielded another interesting fact and is in the adoption of BYOD occurs a geographical divide.

According to the data extracted by the consultant in the first quarter of the year, North America and the Asia-Pacific region "have been more liberal in its approach", with 18% and 77% year on year increase in the volume of BYOD devices, respectively.

Moreover, in this period Western Europe has experienced a reduction of 15% year on year in the adoption of strategies BYOD while the investment in corporate smartphones has increased by 43%.

Overall, during the first quarter of 2013 the number of smartphones introduced in companies by employees has been more than double that of the purchase of devices by the organizations, according to the report by Strategy Analytics.

Today there are in total 62 million smartphones business, representing around 30% of the global smartphone market, as reported by ZDNet.

However, among the factors that hinder the reception of the BYOD trend are high roaming charges, the inability of operators to offer fragmented data billing and the concern of it organizations on security.

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