The final of our Top Five Enterprise Mobile Predictions for 2010 hits closest to home for us at Visage Mobile and our MobilityCentral app. Plenty of businesses have proven the efficiencies — both on the productivity and cost sides — delivered by Software as a Service-based applications. We believe that cloud-based applications will continue to ramp up and report incredible growth through 2010 and beyond.

In turn, traditional telecom expense management service providers will feel the pinch as businesses opt to move away and adopt SaaS-based offerings to manage their mobile spend, set and monitor employee mobility policies and track device usage and inventory within their employee base.

As we wrote at the close of 2009: “In today’s market, with rapidly shifting mobility requirements, there just isn’t the time available to implement a consulting based TEM solution in six months versus a SaaS-based application in one week.”

A new software solution, like MobilityCentral, that can accurately track the increasing use of sophisticated smartphones by employees will become paramount. Businesses that rely on TEM providers for their mobility management could lose strategic ground against competitors that free themselves from the typically long wait reporting cycles and labor intensive solutions regularly delivered by TEM providers. That’s not to mention the long-term contracts that TEM providers usually require of their clients as well.

We encourage businesses – large and small – to take a fresh look at the enterprise mobility management solutions offered via the cloud. Learn more about our live app MobilityCentral. And remember, our free trial is always just a click away if you’d like to take MobilityCentral for a spin.

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