LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio analysts forecast the global workspace aggregator market to grow at a CAGR of over 12% during the forecast period, according to their latest report.
Workspace is a term used by enterprises for any applications, temporary storage space, and any trusted space on any device that is required by an employee to work, deliver, and support business applications and data. Workspace aggregation is the process of unifying various desktop types, applications, and data to enable the user to access his or her workspace independent of the device and delivery method of the application and service.
The research study covers the present scenario and growth prospects of the global workspace aggregator market for 2016-2020. The report also presents the vendor landscape and a corresponding detailed analysis of the top vendors in the market.
Technavio ICT analysts highlight the following three factors that are contributing to the growth of the global workspace aggregator market:
- Consumerization of IT
- Increase in BYOD adoption among enterprises
- Increased internet penetration
Consumerization of IT
Consumerization of IT refers to the use of technologies that can easily be provisioned by even non-technologists in an organization to implement standardization in IT processes. It is mainly being driven by the substantial increase in bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives by IT organizations. It has created a fundamental shift in the relationship between employers and employees. Many leading IT organizations think that allowing employees to use their personally preferred mobile devices, PCs, applications, social media, and cloud services instead of corporate-sanctioned devices increases productivity and satisfaction of employees. In the US, around 40% of devices used to access business applications are personally owned by workers.
However, many chief information officers are reluctant toward this larger trend because they view this trend mainly with questions of what management, security, and compliance controls should be put in place if they decide to adopt this trend.
“Workspace aggregators act as a single solution for all these issues. It encourages the employee population to use personal applications, cloud and cross-device data-sharing, and to use their mobile devices for both business and personal purposes,” says Amrita Choudhury, a lead analyst at Technavio for enterprise application research.
Increase in BYOD adoption among enterprises
Due to the BYOD trend as well as the proliferation of cloud services and the increase in work shifting, mobility has become one of the highest priorities among chief information officers in enterprises focused on improving productivity. Application heterogeneity is growing in organizations. According to a survey, Windows applications represent 60% of a typical company’s application portfolio as of 2014, followed by internal web applications at 24%, SaaS applications at 10%, and mobile applications at 7%.
With this extensive variety of applications, companies need to provide users with quick access without the help of the IT department to utilize multiple management systems to provide application or device access. In addition, there has been a quick increase in the number of devices used by employees. Personal cloud-sharing services are used by almost every employee to store files open-air without a corporate firewall. These developments have prompted IT departments to find a way for supporting and controlling employees securely and cost-effectively.
Workspace aggregators provide the presentation of a user's computing environment (including data, hosted virtual desktops, server-based computing, and native local, native mobile, and SaaS applications) as well as the delivery of cloud services to a number of different devices over different networks. In addition to the presentation and delivery of these resources, workspace aggregators also unify the security and management (e.g., provisioning, auditing, and deployment) of these different client computing services.
Increased internet penetration
Governments worldwide are promoting higher usage of the internet. In 2015, the global population was 7.21 billion, of which around 3.01 billion, or 42%, were active internet users. Internet penetration will increase to around 59% of world population by 2020. Among the active users, 94% accessed the internet through their mobile phones for business and personal purposes.
The reasons for the increasing internet penetration are technological advances, the growing number of young workforce, the decline in bandwidth constraints, and improvements in the internet speed. “The growing internet penetration has opened up a platform for the proliferation of mobile devices and increased adoption of BYOD policy among enterprises, thus, driving the demand for workspace aggregators,” says Amrita.
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