Mobility Index Report

Q1 2015
Report on App, Platform and
Device Preferences from the
Leader in Secure Mobility
May 2015

Report on App, Platform

and Device Preferences from
the Leader in Secure Mobility

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Businesses of all sizes and in all industries continue to aggressively mobilize their apps
and content. However, as this quarters Mobility Index Report highlights, dierent industries
are pursuing notably dierent mobile initiatives on dierent platforms and using dierent
form factors.
Beyond email, calendar and contacts, the secure browser is the leading mobile app being
deployed by businesses. This app has broad adoption across verticals and dominates app
adoption in industries such as manufacturing and transportation. At the same time, several
industries are moving beyond packaged apps with insurance emerging as an early leader in
terms of custom apps that enable new mobile business processes, while business and
professional services focus on mobilizing their content.
From the device perspective in Q4, iOS maintained its strong enterprise share across device
types and form factors. However, iOS continued to see some erosion in its once dominant tablet
adoption with Android continuing a surge and Windows emerging on the scene.

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OVERALL
HIGHLIGHTS
Mobile apps continue to see
strong growth adding another
28% to their impressive growth
over the last quarter.

iOS remains the market share

leader continuing a surge that
began with the release of the
iPhone 6.

Secure browser remains the

most popular app outside of
email. Secure instant messaging
and custom apps follow as next
most popular apps.

Android remains strongest in

high tech and surges in energy
while iOS shows particular strength
in regulated industries and education.

Insurance emerges as an early

adopter of custom apps with
over a third of all apps activated
focused on mobilizing custom
business processes.

The tablet market space gets

more crowded with iOS still in
the lead but Android continuing
gains and Windows gaining
market share.

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Detailed Findings

Good Technology analyzed both the

mobile apps and devices activated by
its customers over the rst quarter of
2015 to highlight trends in mobility,
app and device preference.

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Organizations Continue to Deploy

Increasing Numbers of Mobile Apps
In the rst quarter, organizations continued to mobilize their apps and
content at a rapid and accelerating pace. Enhanced collaboration and access
to corporate content led the way, each experiencing dramatic growth.
Overall app activation was up 28% quarter-overquarter and 48% over the same period last year.

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1 YEAR

160

For the full year beginning in April 2014

and ending in March 2015, total app
activation grew 160%.

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Secure Browser and

Secure IM Lead All Apps
For the second quarter in a row, secure browser led all app categories
representing 21% of all apps deployed by organizations reecting the
growing demand for secure access to the corporate intranet.
Secure instant messaging
moved up one spot to overtake
custom apps as the second most
widely deployed mobile business app.

Top 5 App Categories

Across Devices

Secure Browser

2
Secure IM

3
Custom Apps

Document
Access

Document Editing

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07

Document Access and Document

Editing Show Strong Growth
While the order of mobile apps remained fairly constant, document access
and editing experienced the fastest growth. Increasingly businesses are
mobilizing their content and enabling mobile document-based workows.

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These two categories saw

growth rates of 68% and
51% respectively
quarter-over-quarter.

Document
Access

51

Document
Editing

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Insurance Aggressively Transforms

Business Processes with Custom Apps
The insurance industry is going through rapid business transformation
with new buying methods, claims processing and other key business
processes that are transforming the competitive landscape.
At the same time, insurance depends on
complex business logic involving a multitude
of legacy systems. For this reason the insurance
industry has been especially aggressive in
developing mobile apps to bridge this gap.

34%
CUSTOM
INSURANCE APPS

In the rst quarter of 2015, fully

34% of all apps activated by
insurance organizations were
custom apps.

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When Time is Money,

Firms Invest in Secure IM
While nancial services also aggressively invested in custom apps, the
top category of apps in this vertical was secure instant messaging (IM),
accounting for 27% of all apps activated by nancial services rms.
In this industry, speed to decision
can mean the dierence between
being in the red and in black.
As the industry mobilizes, secure
mobile IM is becoming a substitute
for a shout across a trading oor.

SECURE IM

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Business and Professional Services

Focus on Mobile Document Editing
Business and professional services represent a wide variety of rms, from
law rms to consulting services to accountancies. However, the unifying
factor of this disparate set of businesses is that each of them works on
business docs.
Perhaps unsurprisingly then that document editing
apps dominated this vertical, making up 26% of all apps
deployed by business and professional services rms.
For these rms, the next most activated apps after
document editing apps were secure browser and
document access apps.
Together these three app categories, all of which center
around mobilizing content, made up 64% of all apps
deployed by business and professional services rms.

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For Manufacturing Firms,

the Browser is King
Uniquely among all verticals, manufacturing rms utilized very few custom
apps and little secure IM. However, more than any other industry
manufacturing relied on secure browsers to access key information.

47% of all app

activations within
manufacturing were
made up of secure
browsers.

The widespread adoption of secure

browsers within the manufacturing industry
illustrates that while the usage patterns in
unregulated blue collar industries dier
substantially from regulated and white
collar industries, manufacturing too is
mobilizing key business processes.

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iOS Retains
Strong Market Share
iOS retained the top spot for device activation, dropping a single percent to
72% of all activations. Android ticked up 1% to 26%. iOS has maintained
a market share of over 70% since the introduction of the iPhone 6.

72

Windows Phone activations remain consistent

with the six previous quarters and made up
1% of total device activations.

iOS

It was joined by Windows, which appeared for

the rst time in the Mobility Index Report,
registering an additional 1% of activations.
Most of these devices were tablets running
Windows Pro.

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Android

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Windows

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iPhone 6 Most Popular Device,

Galaxy S5 Leads Android Devices
The iPhone 6 remained the most popular device overall, making up 26% of
all activations in Q1 2015. The most activated Android device was the Samsung
Galaxy S5. Together Apple and Samsung made up 28 of the top 30 devices.

iPhone 6

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OF ALL
ACTIVATIONS

Apple
&
Samsung

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OF THE TOP
30 DEVICES

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iOS Leads Tablets,

but New Competitors Emerge
iOS maintained its lead in tablets, with 81% of all activations in Q1.
However, this represented a 4% drop over Q4.
It continued a trend of increasing diversity in the tablet marketplace.
A year ago, iOS commanded 92% of tablet share.
Android gained an additional 1% from iOS, continuing a trend that has seen its
market share nearly double over the last year. Q1 also saw the emergence of Windows
tablets, including both Microsoft Surface devices and devices from Windows OEMs,
rising from 1% to 4% of tablet activations.

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iOS

15

Android

Windows

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iOS Maintains Strength

in Regulated Industries
Device adoption varies signicantly
among industries. For the second
quarter in a row, iOS signicantly
outpaced Android in regulated
industries.

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PUBLIC SECTOR

80% of public sector

activations and 76%

of nancial services
activations were
iOS devices.

76

FINANCIAL SERVICES

The most iOS-heavy

industry was education,
a traditional Apple
stronghold, with
83% of devices
% running iOS.

83

EDUCATION

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Android Strongest in High Tech,

Surges in Energy
Android is strongest in unregulated industries.

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For the second quarter in a row high tech

was the most Android-friendly industry, up
2% to 47% of all activations in this vertical.

Energy followed closely behind with 44%

of devices running Android, a signicant
jump from last quarter when Android
represented just over a third of devices.

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Microsoft Devices
Begin to Find their Niche
Windows and Windows Phone showed strength in a couple of verticals.

Windows tablets made up 5% of all

activations in retail, while Windows Phone
devices made up 7% of all activations in
entertainment and media.

This is the rst time any Microsoft

operating system has exceeded 5%
in any vertical in the report.

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Overview Of
Good Mobility Index
Methodology
The metrics cited in this report have been directly generated from internal data provided
by Good Technology, as aggregated from all devices activated across the company's
worldwide customer base in Q1 2015.
Good analyzed activations by month, among all its global customers that had at least ve
activated devices over the quarter, to draw conclusions on the overall trends for
net new activations across iOS, Android, Windows and Windows Phone platforms.
Analyzing the long tail of net new device activations by platform provides unique insight
into not only the popularity of individual devices and form factors, but also the platforms
that enterprises prefer for enabling employees to access business data and applications.
Due to the fact that RIM devices use only the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for corporate
email access, Good does not have insight into BlackBerry handset activation trends; and
they are not reected in this report.

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