Mar 24, 2015 By Devon McGinnis

New Salesforce Research: Wearables in the Enterprise

in Analytics, Apps, Cloud, Featured, IT, Mobile, Platform

"Wearables" is a term that you've likely heard more and more in recent years — and a quick look at Google Trends data (in the first chart below) confirms this surge in popularity. The search volume for "wearables" jumps in 2004-2005, and the trend picks up steam in 2013 and beyond.

With the recent Apple Watch announcement, you may be wondering,"What does the future of wearable tech hold for the enterprise?"— in which case, you're in good company because we were curious about the very same thing.

In a recent survey, Salesforce Research asked how businesses are using or planning to use wearables in the workplace. We're publishing our findings in this special report, Wearables in the Enterprise. This research focuses on wearable tech adopters — 500 respondents who said they were currently using, piloting, or planning to implement wearable technology in some form.

Key findings include:

Seventy-nine percent of adopters agree that wearables are or will be strategic to their company’s future success.
As it stands, only 8% of adopters say they are completely ready to gain actionable insights from the volume of employee and customer data generated from wearables.
Nearly 3x growth in wearables is expected across the enterprise in the next two years.

Download now for an in-depth look at this research.