iPhone Now the Top Smartphone in the Enterprise

“There are Apples and Androids in the Enterprise,” according to the results of an iPass survey which reveals that Apple's iPhone leads the pack among the 95 percent of mobile Enterprise workers that now own a smartphone.

A company that ensures connectivity among enterprises and service providers, iPass has compared the results of its 2010 research with the findings from this year, noting that the median age of a mobile worker dropped five years to reach 41.

“Why? It has everything to do with Apples and Androids in the enterprise, the loosening of corporate liability policies, and the expansion of the mobile workforce,” says the firm.

The survey they conducted this quarter showed that Enterprises are reaching saturation levels when it comes to smartphone ownership among employees, and tablets are gaining ground fast as well.

“Specifically,” the company’s PDF report says, “95 percent of mobile workers now have smartphones, up from 85 percent in 2010. 91 percent use their smartphone for work, compared to 69 percent in 2010.”

As far as tablets are concerned, “ownership has grown to 44 percent of mobile employees, up from 33 percent in the second quarter of this year,” says iPass.

The report continues, with iPass revealing the not-so-surprising fact that “The iPhone is now the top smartphone in the enterprise with 45 percent marketshare among mobile workers, up from 31 percent in 2010.”

What is interesting, says iPass, is that Apple’s iPhone is now “10 percentage points above BlackBerry’s market share last year when it held the number one spot.”

Apple is known to provide an extensive array of tools and support for deploying iPhones in the Enterprise environment, one of them being the iPhone Configuration Utility software - available for both Mac and Windows. Visit the Cupertino computer giant here for more information on that.