VMware 2015 State of Business Mobility Report Finds Mobility Investments Drive Infrastructure, App and Process Changes

PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 11/11/15 --

• Increased security is the top priority for businesses to adopt business mobility
• Nearly two-thirds of surveyed organizations have or are actively re-engineering core business processes for mobile in the next 12 months
• On average, companies embracing business mobility said they are seeing a 150 percent return on investment

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today released the VMware 2015 State of Business Mobility Report, a global survey of business decision makers and IT practitioners that examines the worldwide progress in transitioning from the client-server era to the mobile-cloud era. The report concluded that companies are beginning the business mobility transformation, shifting at least one core business process to the mobile paradigm. To support this shift, the organizations surveyed said they are upgrading infrastructure, introducing customer-facing mobile apps and reprocessing mission-critical applications for mobile employees.

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Mobility and the shift to the mobile-cloud era are among the most transformational trends in business today. With the potential to affect many employees, customers and business interactions, mobility can empower organizations to be more competitive and successful. While CIOs rank mobility as one of their highest priorities, businesses today are in varying stages of maturity when it comes to mobility, according to the VMware 2015 State of Business Mobility Report1.

The report found a distinct separation between organizations that have executed business mobility initiatives and those that have not yet shifted business processes to a mobile structure. Of the 1,182 respondents, only 20 percent of companies have executed business mobility initiatives, transforming at least one core business process to a mobile model. These organizations said they have updated infrastructure, invested in mobile devices and rebuilt or re-engineered applications that take advantage of mobility to make the business more competitive.

While many companies have not currently embraced the mobile model, the data showed many organizations are earnestly working to achieve business mobility, as nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of respondents have completed or are actively re-engineering a core business process to a mobile model within the next 12 months. To achieve these strategy goals, organizations said they are making key investments spanning infrastructure, applications and process alignment. More specifically, these organizations said they are upgrading infrastructure to support a mobile business model (77 percent), introducing new mobile customer-facing apps (70 percent) and rebuilding or re-engineering mission critical applications for mobile employees (69 percent) today or within the next 12 months.

Business mobility initiatives are driving a range of strategic results for global organizations. As companies shift applications and data to a mobile platform, increased security remains a most critical priority (55 percent), along with disaster recovery to protect IP (32 percent). At the same time, improving workforce effectiveness -- beyond just simple employee productivity -- is essential (34 percent), along with creating an improved user experience that keeps pace with the environment users are experiencing in their consumer lives (31 percent).

The investment in business mobility software can pay off, as the report found ROI averages of 150 percent. These businesses see increased benefits compared to those who have not executed business mobility, including the ability to more rapidly bring new revenue streams online (51 percent vs. 16 percent), cost of lost business opportunity (-44 percent vs. -22 percent) and user access to mission-critical apps (47 percent vs. 32 percent).

For more information and detailed survey findings of the VMware 2015 State of Business Mobility Report, download the report here.

About VMware

VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Built on VMware's industry-leading virtualization technology, our solutions deliver a brave new model of IT that is fluid, instant and more secure. Customers can innovate faster by rapidly developing, automatically delivering and more safely consuming any application. With 2014 revenues of $6 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

About the VMware Business Mobility Report

The VMware 2015 State of Business Mobility Report was performed in July 2015 and is a study that examines the state of business mobility among global organizations across industries. Data represents a survey of business decision makers (BDMs) and IT practitioners to examine the worldwide progress in transitioning from the client-server era to the mobile cloud era.

VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions.

1 All numerical data cited in this report is derived from the 2015 VMware Business Mobility Report unless otherwise indicated.

   Media Contact:Gabrielle Ferree  VMware Global Communications [email protected] +1 470-247-6742

Source: VMware, Inc.

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