Sprint the US mobile carrier has published an interesting whitepaper based that highlights some of the challenges that mobile workers often face.
Take outs:
- Almost 96 per cent of both large and small companies surveyed will be taking advantage of wireless technology (both GPRS type connections and 802.11x)
- The biggest wireless and wireline technical challenge was providing remote access for suppliers and partners indicating that supply-chain management and partner management was still a difficult process and a barrier toward the virtual enterprise
- 11 per cent of respondents considered that remote access and or mobile access was not on their list of IT priorities
