White Paper: How To Leverage EDA Technology

By David Krebs Director, Mobile & Wireless Practice

In this paper, VDC Research will frame the current market environment and device segments. We will also define what the Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA) class is, how it is different and what productivity enhancements an EDA might enable in traditional and emerging markets.

The fact that today's workforce is increasingly mobile or un-tethered is an understatement. Moreover, it would be hard to overstate the growing importance of the mobile workforce in most segments of the global economy.

VDC estimates the global mobile workforce at 200 million knowledge workers and over 500 million task workers. Furthermore, amid the paring of the overall workforce, the mobile workforce remains on a steady growth trajectory. This is not only a function of demand for inherently ‘mobile' jobs, but more importantly a reflection of the changing habits of today's worker. One noticeable trend over the last couple of years was that as work forces were being trimmed, at the same time they were becoming more productive. While organizations are forced to do more with less (i.e. fewer workers), workforces became more fluid, more collaborative. 9 to 5 was no longer relevant. But mobility was.