The quarterly survey of mobility security by Good Technology shows growth for Android, coming growth for Windows and further work needed on getting applications to work together.
The total number of enterprise app activations continues to see double digit growth, increasing 20% qtr/qtr.
Phil Barnett, VP and general manager for EMEA at Good Technology said that it was enterprises and the public sector pushing ahead with all types of applications on mobile.
"After a lot of discussions about securing users, first on phones, then on tablets, and moving to any type of device, there will be a period of expansion. In-house developers have got the core 5-6 apps covered, and seen the productivity gains.
"We had a customer who worked on getting the main 40+ apps secure, but who then warned us he might need 42 new ones added each week."
There has been particular growth in financial services and banks. Customers generally think they are at the start of a ten year run with mobility strategies to enable users gain access to everything they need to replace the desktop, he says.
The move to mobile will then extend to the Internet of Things, with users expecting data on their car dashboards etc. Traditional integrators with their own applications and management are also having to make this switch.
The gap seen in previous quarters in the number of tablet and phone apps activations closed in Q2, with 58% tablet and 42% phones, with government accounting for an increase in 5% in iPad activations.
The Windows position is interesting: It still accounts for less than 1% of activations, and Android claimed 12%, growing 5% this quarter, driven by strong usage inAsiaPac. Windows is starting to show up in plans, particularly in the public sector says Phil Barnett.
"Logically there are three big players in mobile: Apple, Samsung and Microsoft. In the public sector where there is no BYOD, Microsoft has an advantage, but has some catching up to do."
Because Europe was an early starter in mobile, its standards and people are still highly engaged. "Particularly in New York, where a lot of the financial players are working, we find a lot of Europeans, Brits especially. Europe is cutting edge, and this is important to the ISVs working in this area."
The next wave of mobile technology development will be about offering applications that combine available data and systems for customers, so there is still a lot of work to be done, increasing business processes and ensuring compliance and efficiency, he says.