Mobile solutions, which tie mobile handheld devices to corporate email and application servers, allow mobile workers to be more responsive, stay collaboratively informed, and leverage corporate data with greater flexibility than what is possible with desktop and notebook PCs. IDC conducted case studies with six companies that have implemented Microsoft’s server-based, mobile messaging solution and quantified the productivity returns to end users, as well as the efficiencies and cost savings to IT departments. In this study of companies that have implemented Microsoft’s server-based, mobile messaging solutions, IDC found the following direct benefits:
- Companies in the study paid back the cost of implementation in 4.3 months
- The one-year return on investment (ROI) of implementing the mobile solution was 129%
The whole report is available on the Microsoft website
