This IDC study provides our forecast for enterprises' speed of adoption of handheld devices and converged mobile devices. This document contains a platform- and form factor?based forecast of devices purchased by corporate funds verses 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.

"Enterprises are mobilizing applications and workers on their own schedule and are not feeling pressured to accelerate timetables. Organizations moving forward now have either discovered how access to live data can benefit their organization through increased efficiencies, how it can instill new levels of worker confidence through demonstrable competency, or value the ideas mobile and wireless solutions can ignite for building a new freedom and flexibility for corporate operations." ? Kevin Burden, IDC research manager, Mobile Devices