Infographic – Zebra Technologies Intelligent Enterprise Index

Security remains a top priority as more enterprises start to scale IoT solutions company-wide.

Zebra’s Intelligent Enterprise Index global survey analyses where companies are on the journey to becoming an Intelligent Enterprise, and how they are connecting the physical and digital worlds to improve visibility, efficiencies and growth. Forty-eight per cent are on the path to becoming intelligent enterprises, scoring between 50-75 points on the overall index. Only 5% exceeded 75 points on the index.

Key Findings 

• The pace of IoT adoption is picking up, leading to increasingly greater intelligence levels.
• Continued growth in IoT solutions and other data-driven technology platform investments.
• With security a top priority, enterprises are committing more resources to continuous data system monitoring.
• Enterprises are shifting to a single partner “intelligent” solution ecosystem.
• Surveyed SMBs score higher on the Index than large companies (64.5 points vs 61.5 points).

SURVEY BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY

• The online survey was fielded from Aug. 12 – Sept. 18, 2019 across the healthcare, manufacturing, retail and transportation and logistics industries.
• In total, 950 IT decision makers from nine countries were interviewed, including the U.S., U.K./Great Britain, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, China, India, and Japan. Each of their organizations had at least 250 employees and annual revenue of $5 million. The data captured from SMBs focused on companies with between 50-249 employees.
• Eleven metrics were used to understand where companies are on the path to becoming an Intelligent Enterprise, including IoT Vision, Business Engagement, Technology Solution Partner, Adoption Plan, Change Management Plan, Point of use Application, Security & Standards, Lifetime Plan, Architecture/Infrastructure, Data Plan and Intelligent Analysis.
• The criteria were identified by executives, industry experts and policymakers across different industries at the 2016 Strategic Innovation Symposium: The Intelligent Enterprise, hosted by Zebra in collaboration with the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH).
• The framework of an Intelligent Enterprise is based on technology solutions that integrate cloud computing, mobility, and the Internet of Things (IoT) to automatically “sense” information from enterprise assets. Operational data from these assets, including status, location, utilization, or preferences, is then “analyzed” to provide actionable insights, which can then be mobilized to the right person at the right time so they can be “acted” upon to drive better, more timely decisions by users anywhere, at any time.

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