Gartner also says that 85% of businesses will have some kind of BYOA/BYOD program in place by 2020.

According to market researcher Gartner, almost 4 in 10 organisations will rely exclusively on BYOA/BYOD by 2016.

Bring Your Own App in the Enterprises

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BYOA is a trend enabling employees to use cloud services and third-party applications in the workplace. It is an example of the increasing consumerisation of IT.

Google Docs, Evernotes, GotoMeeting, Join.me, Skype, CloudOn, and Dropbox are some widely

used popular consumer apps.

The global Bring Your Own App (BYOA) market is expected to witness significant growth over the forecast period owing to widespread consumer adoption of smartphones and other smart devices including tablets and laptops. This infographic talks about the Bring Your Own App phenomenon.

The widespread availability of cloud applications for both mobile and PC environments are also expected to fuel market growth for BYOA.

Industry experts suggest that lower capital expenditures for software purchases and licensing coupled with reduced training requirements are expected to drive the global BYOA market over the forecast period.

Small and medium-sized businesses have been at the forefront of the BYOA/BYOD trend, which is now slowly moving into the enterprise sector in certain areas.

The increasing number of enterprise mobile devices and the adoption of mobile device management (MDM) by enterprises will drive demand and adoption of enterprise app stores.

By 2017, 25% of enterprises will have an enterprise app store for managing corporate-sanctioned apps on PCs and mobile devices.

In the same survey, 51% believed that such transfers could lead to leaking information to wrong hands, including competitors.

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What employees want from enterprise apps:

Best practices for BYOD/BYOA:

Security User Friendly

Why employees choose BYOA:

The tools the company provides do not meet

thier needs

The tools the company provides are outdated:

The company does not have budget for the

tools they want

Customisation

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80%

Low Maintenance

60%

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According to a survey by Poneman Institute, 60% of enterprise respondents said they were moving confidential corporate files over services such as YouSendit.com.

Embrace the cloud.Value lies in data, not devices. Develop a mobile strategy that includes recommendations from IT, sales, human resources, and legal.Gain visibility into what devices and technologies are coming into your company via email and network access.Implement an enterprise marketing management (EMM) solution, which will help program adoption.

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Create a strategic vision to make BYOA part of your enterprise mobility strategy.

Concentrate on the apps, not the devices.

Consider the business roadmap by building a mobility strategy.

Build an app portfolio for your BYOA program.

Don't keep your users in the dark about technology decisions.

Support users while simultaneously planning for obsolescence.

Strategies to make sure BYOA fits into your enterprise's policies:

Sources:Gartner: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2334015TechTarget: http://searchcio.techtarget.com/tip/BYOA-is-here-Six-steps-to-making-mobile-apps-enterprise-readyAmerican Banker: http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/141_177/Are-your-company-secrets-floating-in-the-cloud1-1051169-.html?zkPrintable=1&nopagination=1Inc.com: http://www.inc.com/comcast/byod-byoa-a-growing-applicable-trend.htmlGrandview Research: http://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/bring-your-own-app-market