Tablet penetration to increase within India SMBs in 3 years

According to the '2013 India SMB Mobility Landscape, Opportunity Assessment and Outlook' study conducted by New York-based AMI-Partners, India small and medium businesses indicate a rapid anticipated growth trend for tablet acquisition, in the coming future.

A deep-dive analysis of the India SMB expenditure on these devices shows that small businesses are the major contributors to this accelerated spending, outpacing their medium business counterparts. Moreover, total tablet penetration is projected to increase dramatically within India SMBs over the next three years.

Nearly two thirds of PC-owning SMBs in India have stated plans to purchase one or more tablets in the next 12 months. India SMBs are indeed considering tablets an essential workplace companion.

AMI research indicates that more than six in ten tablet-owning SMBs would like to utilize keyboards and other add-on devices. A similar proportion of these SMBs have realized the enhanced need for data security and access control. The need to access data while on the move is key for tablet users.

AMI also analyzed the distribution of tablet operating systems as a part of its study. "Research reveals that Android is the most dominant OS among India SMB tablets at present. Apple iOS and Blackberry OS follow far behind," said Dev Chakravarty, research manager, AMI-Partners India.