Our survey results are in: Windows Phone 7 scores high in the enterprise

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The results are in. Thank you FierceMobileIT readers for participating in a recent survey aimed at determining your company's mobility deployments and other mobility concerns both now and in 2011.

The Enterprise Mobility Foundation, Strategy Analytics and FierceMobileIT conducted the survey, and some 250 of you responded. Interestingly, small, medium and large enterprises are well represented in this survey, as each segment represents about one-third of the total respondents.

The survey uncovered some fascinating results, which will be discussed today in a webinar I'm moderating.

Some key takeaways include:

  • Mobility is becoming less of a privilege in the workplace and more of an employee's right. As such, the pendulum is swinging toward companies subsidizing both voice and data services less. In fact, that trend fell some 10 to 15 percent from January 2010 to December 2010.
  • Businesses are settling in on supporting at least four different mobile platforms: Android, BlackBerry, iPhone and surprisingly, Windows Phone 7. Android, not surprisingly, saw the biggest jump in support from January 2010 to December 2010. Support for Android increased to 42 percent in December, up from 19 percent in January.
  • When it comes to 2011 and what platforms enterprises will support, Windows Phone 7 ranks high, jumping from 15 percent planning to support the platform today to 46 percent in 2011.
  • No one platform will dominate the enterprise.
  • When it comes to what the enterprise will allow employees to do on their personally-owned mobile devices, social networking was high on the list at more than 80 percent. That means every organization is entering a delicate balance between allowing employees to do what they want with their devices while still imposing restrictions to protect the enterprise and company time.

To listen to the replay, click here. - Lynnette