Mobile, cloud have become almost basic needs – study

October 18, 2014 Off By David
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Grazed from TelecomPaper.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Belgian companies are increasingly using cloud services and applications –consciously or unknowingly- and employees are working more with mobile devices, with both trends reinforcing each other, a study from Base Business showed, conducted with Trends and Datanews. The study asked 1613 business customers about their mobile communication behaviour.

Mobile has become a basic need, Base said. People increasingly communicate through different channels and mobile devices. An overwhelming majority of respondents make daily use of mobile data. Mobile has become the new way of working and taken on an important strategic role, Base CEO Jos Donvil said…

Over a third (36%) of respondents believe mobile working is strategically important to their business. For 22 percent, it is a top priority. At the same, 4 out of 10 respondents did not really know what cloud computing was, and so used the cloud unknowingly. Companies that are aware of using cloud services, said these were positive and gave them a competitive edge. Almost a fifth (19%) of companies surveyed say they will in the future consciously use cloud services.

Around 70 percent of respondents use external data on a daily basis, mostly from home (91%), from customers/suppliers (55%), or in the car (49%). The most used application is the cloud backup. Protection of all mobile applications, devices and data in the cloud is a major topic of concern. Many companies find it important that information does not end up on the personal mobile device of the employee. At the same time, employee must always have access to that data.