Bridging the Gap to Workplace Mobility

It’s official – Canadians are addicted to their smartphones.

A poll by Google shows that over half of all adults were using a smartphone in 2013- an increase of 17% over the previous year. In addition, 80% of smartphone owners never leave the house without it. So while individuals continue to adopt mobile technology, how are Canadian businesses fairing?

It appears that small businesses are starting to catch up to the consumer segment in their adoption of mobile technology. A poll of Canadian small and medium businesses conducted by Sage back in March of 2013 showed that 78 percent of respondents are using devices to access work-related information. Smartphone adoption was noted as increasing 78% year on year.

The major platforms are of course Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, although Windows has been making advances in the marketplace. What happens with Blackberry still remains to be seen.

Small and Medium businesses are still lagging in their adoption of PBX / Mobile Telephony integration across North America. A recent presentation by Bill Haskins, Senior Analyst, Wainhouse Research , shows that only 1/3 of organizations have deployed PBX / Telephony integration to the smartphone. This, despite that fact that many premise based PBX solutions available today offer exceptional mobile integration that can offer many benefits, including the ability to:

- Create a one-number reach solution for all your employees

- Give your business control of extensions in numbers, to ensure that employee turnover does not negatively impact your business

- Reduce long distance and wireless plan costs

- Provide access to voicemail through a visual application

- Simplify dialing and conferencing using corporate directories

- Provide presence information on your mobile device

Is your business in the process of adopting more mobile devices? If so, it is worth a call to your Value Added Reseller to see what your current system might be able to provide to your business, and how you might be able to save money and help your employees increase their productivity by integrating their mobile devices into your businesses collaboration system.

Source: B2C_Business

Bridging the Gap to Workplace Mobility