BrandPost: Mobile Email Evolution: The Security Mandate

No matter how many new communication channels have entered the workplace over the past several years – from instant messaging to text messaging – email has persisted as the killer app in many enterprises.

What’s changing is how important mobile support for the ubiquitous email platform has become to the business user. According to research conducted by Nottingham Trent University,people check their phones an average of 85 times a day. For business users, much of this activity centers on email. That’s why organizations need to find ways to accommodate the rising demands of their workforce for more mobile-friendly email solutions – or risk having users embrace third-party options that fail to meet enterprise requirements. Corporate users of traditional email solutions like Outlook want to retain the business features they use every day that are not available in default device mail clients. Increasingly they also want to separate personal data from business to keep privacy protected.

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