Empowering Mobile Collaboration for Today’s Workforce without losing control! @ Mobile Edge '14

Gavin Simpson Director, EMEA Strategic Alliances, Box Lisbon, 5 November 2014

without losing control!

Empowering Mobile CollaboraAon for Todays Workforce

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We are at the beginning of the

Mobile Information Economy

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The last century was defined by companies that could build for economies of scale

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Companies built processes and organizations to deliver goods and services at massive scale

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The barriers to entry that once protected leading companies are now failing

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The Mobile Information Economy is being defined by new competitive factors...

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New Products Information-driven

solutions that redefine their industry

New Workplace Work across

boundaries, be more agile & collaborative

New IT Now, IT is more important

and strategic than ever before

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Use three or more devices for work

Use seven or more apps for work

Works from three or more locaAons

53% 82%

37%

Source: Forrester - Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q4 2013

New Workplace

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New Products

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Mobility has come a long way New Products

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and it will go a lot further! New Products

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In the year 2020

80% of adults on the planet will own a Smartphone

Smartphone sales will Dwarf those of PCs

New Products

Source: Andreessen Horowitz study, October 2014

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ConsumerisaAon of IT

We want apps that are instantly familiar

We want access from any device

We want apps that are collaboraAve in nature

Hype Alert?

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ConsumerisaAon of IT? Its about Visibility

8 cloud apps used at work by the typical employee each month

But only 9% of IT decision makers are condent they have visibility

As#such,#employees#could#be#accessing#many#more#apps#than#rst#expected#

Source: Loudhouse Survey, Q1 2014 and Skyhigh Networks Q3 2014

831 cloud apps used at typical enterprise companies

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Box$

Dropbox$

Youtube$

Oce$365$

Jive$

Webex$

Facebook$

Salesforce$

GMail$

iCloud$

GDrive$

Source: Skyhigh Networks survey, October 2014

23%

11%

9% 7% 5%

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Losing Control?

Projects nanced & governed by BUs

Projects nanced ad-hoc by BUs

Projects nanced by BUs and run jointly with IT team

Projects nanced by IT and run jointly with BUs

Projects nanced and run solely by IT

Projects nanced by BUs

Projects nanced by IT

Source: IDC Analysis, 2014

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What can IT do to stay in control?

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You can keep saying NO! But is this really the best long-term solu>on or career path!

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Your response to Shadow IT?

53% 50% 38%

Working to contain projects and retain control in IT and to

be^er serve BU teams

Working to collaborate with BU leaders in the implementaAon of

their chosen pla_orms

Imposing a blanket ban on Cloud programmes to stop Shadow IT at the source

NOTE: MulAple responses provided so total is not 100%

Source: IDC Analysis, 2014

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User-Centric IT?

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How tomorrow works