According to research firm Gartner predicts, more than half of all users will use their mobile device in the companies before a laptop or desktop by 2018.Even this prophecy comes to materialization, it may be invaluable for IT judgment makers at small businesses involved in strategic planning and assessment.

Mobile At Workplace?
Smartphone’s and tablets are adopting increasingly for offices, as their portability and computing capability are a natural fit for the mobile workforce. Desktops or laptops are not replaced yet by mobile platforms for complex business tasks which required dedicated software and big screens. Tasks related with content formation and business analytics — alike as creating spreadsheets, manipulating databases, graphic design and collecting information from multiple systems.
Although in October, purchases get down for tablet and desktop, Number of tablets shipped in 2014 would be 7.2 percent higher than the year prior, predicts by IDC. Overall the rise in the popularity of Smartphone’s and large-screen, or pallets, is fueling mobile use. Mobile will remain a useful business tool, but is not likely to completely replace desktops in the workplace.

Mobile Planning
Midsize business is planning to adopt for the use of mobile in workplace is set to expand. With the usability, security of mobile device needs to be balanced, and to support a secure mobile workplace it ensures that policies are put in one place with the help of strategic planning.
By managing a mobile-first workplace, midsize businesses may find, it involves balancing the varying needs of individual employees. At midsize firms may only need to manage a limited number of security profile types by IT professionals. With the short workforce in IT department may find that all mobile users are special cases. For determining the correct balance between ease of access and protection, its required Business leadership, Greater cooperation between employees, security professionals.
Businesses that have migrated their data and systems to cloud service providers must include their cloud partners in devising for the mobile workplace.Planning for mobile business has already begun. By 2018 mobile use in the workplace may not necessarily overtake desktop use.