This IDC study provides our forecast for enterprises' speed of adoption of converged mobile devices. This document contains a platform- and form factor-based forecast of devices purchased by corporate funds versus devices purchased with individual consumer funds. The study is valuable to hardware, software, and solution vendors targeting handheld devices in the corporate environment and the consumer sector.

"The trend toward enterprise mobile enablement, including the corporate adoption of converged mobile devices, continues to gain momentum as more companies invest in mobility to maintain their competitive position, take advantage of promising best practices, and establish control over the mobile devices already part of their corporate environment," says Sean Ryan, research analyst, Mobile Enterprise Devices. "The industry has reached the point where mobility in the enterprise is being accepted as an inevitability, and efforts are now focusing on the applications, data sets, processes, and workers that will benefit the most, as well as the mobile platforms and device types that are best for the specific job."