The police fleet computing landscape is not one defined by frequent or major change. The year-over-year, even decadeover- decade de facto suite of tools used by the average police officer is fairly consistent: a fixed, rugged in-vehicle laptop, a land mobile radio (LMR), a pen and some paper. Visit the Future of Police Fleet Computing page to learn more.

Demand for Android-powered rugged handheld devices is rapidly growing, supplanting legacy Windows systems. As we enter 2020, we are well into to second phase of Android migration, focusing on industrial warehousing and logistics. Visit the Rugged Handheld Computers and Smartphones for LoB Applications page to learn more.

Although wearable devices face formidable barriers to adoption, the enterprise opportunity remains promising for a number of niche and specialized use cases. Visit the Enterprise-Grade Wearables page to learn more.

The warehousing ecosystem is grappling with steep challenges on all fronts, ranging from the shrinking labor pool to the lack of available space to grow into. Market forces are steadily placing more pressure on warehouses to maximize their fulfillment accuracy and labor optimization while also adapting to the increasingly competitive omni-channel landscape. Visit the Modernizing the Warehouse page to learn more.

While worker safety is a key priority in every industry across the world, it is paramount for the segment of the global workforce who find themselves in high-risk environments due to the nature of their employer’s businesses. Visit the Intrinsically Safe Mobile Devices page to learn more.

While the overall tablet market battles headwinds, adoption of slate tablets and 2-in-1 detachable devices among frontline mobile workers in commercial and public sectors continues to grow. Visit the Enterprise Tablets page to learn more.

VDC’s Enterprise Mobility Mobile Hardware Dataset provides readers with the most detailed, timely, and actionable quantitative market sizing and trend insights for mobile devices supporting today's frontline mobile workforce. Visit the Mobile Hardware Dataset page to learn more.

The changes occurring in end-user computing (EUC) environments have been incremental since PCs became a fixture at every business user’s desk. Visit the Next-Generation OS’s for The Enterprise page to learn more.

This report analyzes the key technology trends, market opportunities and adoption drivers for forklift mounted computing solutions. Accompanying deliverables also consist of profiles of leading fixed vehicle mounted unit (VMU), tablet and mounting... Visit the Forklift Mounted Computers page to learn more.

VDC estimates that in 2018 the installed base of PTT users in the US was XX, and is expected to reach XX by 2023 at a CAGR of 8.5%. In 2018 approximately XX% of the installed base of PTT devices was in the commercial... Visit the PTT Over Cellular and its Impact on LMR page to learn more.

This report covers the overall market opportunity for rugged handheld devices and smartphones used to support enterprise line-of-business applications. It includes market sizing and forecasts for rugged and consumer-grade mobile devices. Visit the Rugged Handheld Computers and Smartphones page to learn more.

Field service organizations are facing mounting pressures. Customers have become more selective, older generations of technicians have aged out of the industry, and new technicians require on-the-job training. Visit the Field Service Management page to learn more.

Watch out, Windows: Android is making serious waves in the enterprise tablet market. A dominant force in the consumer-grade mobile OS arena, Android is now steadily encroaching on Windows’ turf as a viable OS for fully rugged tablet solutions. Visit the Enterprise Tablets page to learn more.

Mobility is transforming organization’s operations and represents a crucial channel for interfacing and interacting with customers and employees. Access to increasingly powerful mobile devices, intuitive and immersive applications and robust networks, has significantly changed the way we work. Visit the Total Cost of Ownership Models for Line of Business Mobile Solutions page to learn more.

This report analyzes the key technological innovations, market trends, and adoption drivers related to voice solutions in the enterprise. Included are insights from in-depth interviews with stakeholders at leading vendor organizations as well as a dedicated end user survey. Visit the Voice Enablement for Business-Critical Workflows page to learn more.

VDC’s Enterprise Mobile Buyer Behavior Dataset finds that mobile technology adoption rates and budgets are growing steadily across industries. Visit the Enterprise Mobile Buyer Behavior Dataset & Forecast Models page to learn more.

The competitive environment for the global rugged tablet market is the most dynamic it has been in years and is expected to reach $840 million by 2021. Overall, Windows remains the dominant operating system for rugged tablets. Visit the Rugged Tablet Market Opportunity Assessment page to learn more.

The increasing reliance on mobile devices and cloud-based applications has made offering secure and predictable digital and mobile IT services to stakeholders on a 24/7 basis a necessity. Visit the Managed Mobility Services page to learn more.

The contents of this report cover the overall market opportunity for wearable devices used to support mobile enterprise and public sector workers. This report includes market sizing and forecasts for wearable devices through 2022. It also breaks down market... Visit the Enterprise-Grade Wearables page to learn more.

The goal of this report is to analyze and size the market for mobile technologies that are involved in supporting Omnichannel retail initiatives. The full analyst report will include a 5-year forecast and breakdown of global hardware shipments... Visit the Omni-channel Retail Initiatives page to learn more.

This report discusses the role of mobile technology in health care and the top mobility challenges that health care organizations face. Primary topics include the global market, types of mobile solutions, the benefits of mobility, and the future of this sector. Visit the Health Care Mobility page to learn more.

This report covers the overall market opportunity for rugged handheld devices and smartphones used to support enterprise line-of-business applications. It includes market sizing and forecasts for rugged and consumer-grade mobile... Visit the Rugged Handheld Computers and Smartphones for LoB Applications page to learn more.

While the term digital transformation is overused, digitization trends are forcing businesses to invest in new technologies. The cloud is just one of a several inter-related trends that have forever changed the IT landscape―mobile applications and social networks are contributing to the... Visit the App Factories Slow to Emerge page to learn more.

The goal of this report is to analyze and size the market for mobile technologies that are involved in supporting direct store delivery (DSD) systems around the globe. The full analyst report will include a 5-year forecast of hardware, software, and professional services shipments; a hardware revenue... Visit the Direct Store Delivery page to learn more.

Field service organizations are facing mounting pressures on their organizations. Customers have become more selective, older generations of technicians have aged out of the industry, and new technicians require on-the-job training. Visit the Field Service Management page to learn more.

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) vendors have been enjoying a great run, and have solidified their place in today’s modern IT infrastructure. These vendors accomplished this by honing their solutions to accommodate a variety of device ownership models. Visit the Goodbye EMM, Hello UEM page to learn more.

With increasing mobile use of cloud services to access corporate data, enterprise customers must protect data residing beyond the perimeter. Visit the Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) page to learn more.

VDC’s Mobile Worker Census provides a detailed quantitative analysis of the workforce segmented by regional, industry, and organization parameters. Visit the 2017 Mobile Worker Census page to learn more.

Quarterly market-share updates for leading rugged and non-rugged mobile hardware vendors by form factor, with numerous market share segmentations. Focus on shipments of mobile devices supporting enterprise and government users. Visit the Rugged Mobile Quarterly Shipments Q1 2017 page to learn more.

The contents of this report cover the overall market opportunity for wearable devices used to support mobile enterprise and public sector line-of-business (LoB) applications. For this LoB subset of the market, examples of end users whose applications often rely on wearables include, but are not limited to: retail sales associates, delivery drivers, nurses/ clinicians, warehouse workers, law enforcement/public safety officials, and field service technicians. Visit the Wearable Devices Supporting LoB Applications page to learn more.

The 2017 VDC Channel Tracker was designed to create a comprehensive of enterprise mobility solution providers. This database includes profiles of leading solution provider profiles identifying key capabilities, contacts, target markets, partners and key contacts. Visit the 2017 Enterprise Mobility Channel Trackerpage to learn more.

This report integrates selected findings from VDC’s recent survey of mobile decision-makers in both midmarket and enterprise organizations. It contains a detailed market sizing and forecast through 2021, as well as a comprehensive competitive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, and capabilities of leading players that participate in delivery advanced enterprise mobility services. Visit the Digital Transformation-as-a-Service page to learn more.

This report integrates selected findings from VDC’s recent survey of mobile application developers in both midmarket and enterprise organizations. It contains a detailed market sizing and forecast through 2020, as well as a comprehensive competitive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, and capabilities of leading players in the mobile application development market. Visit the Citizen Developers Matter page to learn more.

This report covers the overall market opportunity for rugged handheld devices and smartphones used to support enterprise line-of-business applications. It includes market sizing and forecasts for rugged and consumer-grade mobile devices. It breaks down the market opportunity for rugged mobile computing devices by region, industry, application environments, OS, and level of ruggedness. The report discusses current trends driving investment in enterprise mobility as well as what the future entails for mobile hardware vendors Visit the Rugged Handheld Computers and Smartphones for LoB Applications page to learn more.

Quarterly market-share updates for leading rugged and non-rugged mobile hardware vendors by form factor, with numerous market share segmentations. Focus on shipments of mobile devices supporting enterprise and government users. Visit the Rugged Mobile Quarterly Shipments Q2 2016 page to learn more.

This report covers the overall market opportunity for mobile technologies to support applications in the health care vertical. The report includes market sizing and forecast research for various mobile device classes and form factors supporting health care applications. It also breaks down market opportunity by region and form factor. Additionally, this report provides landscape vendor analysis, application and workflow analysis, and highlights end-user research to assess current trends driving investment in health care mobility solutions. Visit the Mobilizing Health Care page to learn more.

This report integrates selected findings from VDC's recent enterprise mobility survey (survey data is provided as a separate Excel spreadsheet) of IT decision-makers in both mid-market and enterprise organizations. It contains a comprehensive market segmentation and competitive assessment of key security vendors, emerging business models, and analysis of their capabilities and relevance in the market. Visit the Mobility Spurs Security Ecosystem Expansion page to learn more.

This report covers the overall market opportunity for both rugged and consumer grade tablets used to support mobile enterprise line-of-business (LoB) applications. It is important to note that this report primarily focuses on the enterprise LoB and industry-specific subset of the overall tablet opportunity. For this subset, examples of end users whose applications often rely on tablets include, but are not limited to, retail sales associates, delivery drivers, field service technicians, warehouse workers, police officers, EMTs, nurses/clinicians, flight-line aircraft personnel, and servers at restaurants. Visit the The Global Market for Enterprise Tablets page to learn more.

This report will analyze the major technical and operational trends that are driving change within the manufacturing sector. Mobile opportunities, arising from a more data-dependent manufacturing environment and the growing capabilities of mobile technology, are the direct result of technical and operational drivers and the slow removal of historical barriers. By examining these two driving forces in-depth, this report will provide an unmatched analysis of the opportunities for mobile technology within the manufacturing sector. Visit the Mobile's Place in the Connected Factory page to learn more.

This report integrates selected findings from VDC's recent enterprise mobility survey of IT decision-makers in both midmarket and enterprise organizations. It contains a detailed market sizing and forecast through 2020, as well as a comprehensive competitive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, and capabilities of leading players in the EMM market. Visit the Enterprise Mobility Management page to learn more.

Quarterly market-share updates for leading rugged and non-rugged mobile hardware vendors by form factor, with numerous market share segmentations. Focus on shipments of mobile devices supporting enterprise and government users. Visit the Rugged Mobile Quarterly Shipments Q1 2016 page to learn more.

VDC Research's annual examination of end-user buying behavior has noted an emerging trend over the past few years. The emergence of operations technology-the procurement and use of technology by those in operational roles-has complicated the role of a company's IT department. While the objectives of the IT department remain the same, the manner in which they complete these objectives and the forces with which they must now contend have changed. Visit the Enterprise Mobile Buyer Behavior Dataset page to learn more.

This report evaluates the market for mobile solutions in hazardous manufacturing globally. This report is written for those responsible for making critical decisions regarding product, market, channel, and competitive strategy and tactics in addressing mobile solutions for these unique environments and applications. The report includes market sizing including by hardware, professional services, and software, end-user requirements analysis, and overall market trends. Visit the Mobile Applications in Hazardous Manufacturing Environments page to learn more.

This report evaluates the market for field service automation solutions globally. This report is written for those responsible for making critical decisions regarding product, market, channel, and competitive strategy and tactics in addressing field mobile – including field service and sales – solutions. It includes market sizing including by hardware, professional services, and software, end-user requirements analysis, and overall market trends. Visit the Field Service Automation Solutions page to learn more.

This report discusses and analyzes the opportunity for organizations to outsource mobile IT services to their internal end users and external customers and partners. The desire to utilize mobile devices for an increasing range of workflows has brought to light the complexity and challenges that IT must contend with as the range of mobile solutions they support continues to expand. The increased usage of mobile devices also has IT departments reconsidering how to best deliver increasingly business-critical mobile IT services. Visit the Mobile Managed and Professional Services page to learn more.

The military and defense sector has significant demand for mobile devices and solutions given the emphasis placed on reliable communications, information reconnaissance and sharing. The need for devices at the vanguard of technology to remain competitive has resulted in militaries acquiring commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products that have short life cycles and constantly improving technology. However, COTS devices often fail to address the unique security and environmental needs of militaries, thus complicating the acquisition process and increasing procurement costs. Visit the Mobile Solutions in the Military page to learn more.

This report evaluates the market for mobile technologies to support direct store delivery (DSD) systems across the globe. Breaking down our analysis into regions, including the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, VDC’s research will provide market insight into DSD-related hardware and software trends. This report will analyze the state of legacy systems and address the future of enterprise-grade and consumer-grade technologies in DSD markets. Visit the Direct Store Delivery & In-Store Merchandising Applications page to learn more.

This report covers the overall market opportunity for vehicle-mounted devices, including forklift-mounted computers used to support enterprise and government line-of-business applications. The products covered in this research include purpose-built computers designed specifically to be mounted in a vehicle. Not included are general-purpose mobile form factors such as notebooks and tablets. Target applications and vehicle types include forklifts and material moving equipment, trucks for TL and LTL applications, police vehicles, emergency vehicles, and military vehicles. Visit the Vehicle-Mounted Computers page to learn more.

Leveraging an expansive end-user research campaign and in-depth interviews with leading and emerging vendors, these reports are designed to track key changes impacting the market and identify opportunities for end users, mobile vendors, and investors alike. Visit the Mobile Evolution in the North American Public Safety Market page to learn more.

This reports takes an in-depth look at how enterprises are approaching mobile investments to support specific workflows or applications in the postal-courier industry. The research will measure performance metrics and investment impact separating best-in-class organizations, rank key applications and workflows being mobilized, analyze target mobile solution requirements, and evaluate the key success requirements for solution providers. Visit the Disruption in the Global Postal-Courier Market page to learn more.

This report analyzes the competitive landscape in leading embedded board and system market segments, including numerous market share segmentations. This report will also deliver research-driven commentary on the latest industry trends influencing the current and future supplier ecosystem. Visit the Global Market for Notebooks in LoB Applications page to learn more.

This report integrates selected findings from VDC's recent enterprise mobility survey of IT decision-makers in both midmarket and enterprise organizations. It contains a detailed market sizing and forecast through 2020, as well as a comprehensive competitive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, and capabilities of leading players in the EMM market. Visit the Global Market for Enterprise Mobility Management page to learn more.

This report covers the overall market opportunity for rugged handheld devices and smartphones used to support enterprise line-of-business applications. It includes market sizing and forecasts for rugged and consumer-grade mobile devices. It breaks down the market opportunity for rugged mobile computing devices by region, industry, application environments, OS, and level of ruggedness. The report discusses current trends driving investment in enterprise mobility as well as what the future entails for mobile hardware vendors Visit the Rugged Handheld Computers and Smartphones for LoB Applications page to learn more.

This report integrates selected findings from VDC's recent enterprise mobility survey (survey data is provided as a separate Excel spreadsheet) of IT decision-makers in both mid-market and enterprise organizations. It contains a comprehensive market segmentation and competitive assessment of key security vendors, emerging business models, and analysis of their capabilities and relevance in the market. Visit the Mobile Security - Key Barrier to Mobile Enablement  page to learn more.

This report covers the overall market opportunity for both rugged and consumer grade tablets used to support mobile enterprise line-of-business (LoB) applications. It is important to note that this report primarily focuses on the enterprise LoB and industry-specific subset of the overall tablet opportunity. Visit the Global Market for Enterprise Tablets page to learn more.

IoT services are among the main reasons for connecting devices to the Internet. At their most basic level, these services fall into four core categories: connectivity; device monitoring and control; data collection and storage; and data analytics. In various combinations, these functions produce IoT services that enable: businesses, municipalities, and consumers to reduce costs and maximize utilization of their devices; dealers to provide predictive maintenance and improve customer service; and OEMs to understand usage patterns to develop new features and refine product designs. Visit the Connect, Control, Store, & Analyze page to learn more.