He says the proliferation of mobile devices in the enterprise has increased the urgency of moving some functionality to the cloud, to make it easier for the corporate workforce to access data whenever they want, from wherever they happen to be, on any available device, and to do so safely.

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The enterprise market remains a work in progress, partly due to the rapid transformation of a workforce becoming increasingly mobile and consumer-grade expectations for accessing applications from both employer-provided mobile devices or a Bring-Your-Own-Device approach.

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