Providing Insight, Collaboration, and Awareness Increases Productivity and Improves Decision making among Mobile Employees

With most employees increasingly mobile, connecting people with other people, information, and key assets is vital to achieving business objectives. Four key trends are accelerating business requirements for mobility solutions:

• Anytime work environment: The demands of a global partner and customer base create the need for flexibility in when and how work is done.
• The mobility generation: Companies need to attract and retain the next generation of the workforce, which has grown up immersed in mobility and consider it a necessary tool.
• Business continuity: Mobility enables the workforce to continue getting their jobs done even if a local or regional crisis prevents traveling to the office
• Green friendly: Mobility provides telecommuting capabilities, which help businesses become more environmentally friendly.

Mobility is fundamentally about connecting people with:

• Other people, including colleagues, partners, and customers
• Applications and data that are critical to achieving organizational goals
• Critical assets that are fundamental to core business processes

Mobility is much more than wireless devices, connectivity, or sending e-mail. It is not simply a cell phone or laptop with a wireless LAN or 3G card. By creating continuous connections among people, core information, business applications, and critical assets even as they move, a business empowers its workforce with three key capabilities:

• Insight: Access not simply to applications and data but to essential information with timeliness and context
• Collaboration: Easy, efficient connection with team members, partners, and customers
• Awareness: Information about the location and status of all the company's networked assets

Cisco Mobility Solutions

Cisco offers a broad range of solutions that enable business mobility:

• Cisco Unified Wireless Network provides a secure, scalable, and manageable platform for delivering mobility services.
• Cisco Teleworker Solutions provide data, applications, network connectivity, and toll-quality voice services to workers at home.
• Cisco Secure Remote Access solutions enables employees to recreate office resources through the Internet using a laptop or other network-enabled device.
• Mobile Solutions for Unified Communications combines unified communications and mobility to enhance employee effectiveness by reducing complexity.