Strategic Mobility Advisory for Leading Private Equity Firm in London

Actis (www.act.is) is a leading private equity firm investing exclusively in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Actis is the only pan-emerging market private equity firm with US$4.6 billion managed by 105 investment professionals. Actis puts its investors capital to work in 65 companies in total employing over 101,000 people. Actis is interested in achieving competitive advantage and operational efficiency by the use of Mobility. In the push towards mobilization Actis faces challenges in terms of its user base, team sizes, geography and in general the nature of the private equity business. Despite these challenges, mobility presented a great opportunity for Actis to provide access to complex data; workflow and analytics for their portfolio managers on mobile, move line-of-business applications to smartphones and connect back into the corporate resources remotely. Need of an Enterprise Mobility Strategy Mobility is a journey, not destination. The implementation of mobility solutions requires enterprises to build capability and strategy to synthesize many essential mobility requirements e.g. devices, networks, applications, integration with complex data systems, workflow, identification of right mobile device management (MDM) and middleware (MEAP) platforms etc. There arrives need for an enterprise to identify its mobile 1 2012, Endeavour Software Technologies

users, understand their needs, assess various mobility parameters and their impact and build a well-defined mobility strategy and a roadmap for mobility adaption. Endeavour, in the capacity of strategic mobility advisor, helped Actis articulate a strategy and roadmap for building Actis IT Services (ITS) capability and infrastructure to deliver applications on smartphones and tablets. Endeavour domain experts and thought leaders helped Actis executive management optimize their total cost of ownership (TCO) by bringing best mobility practices, vertical depth and mobility expertise. MOA Services Offered by Endeavour-The Mobility Company Endeavours Mobile Opportunity Assessment (MOA) program specifically caters to this need of enterprises. Endeavour is advising several fortune 500 firms and billon dollar brands and helping them go-mobile. We do this with our 3 steps MOA process. Our vertical experts, mobility analysts assess your people, process and technology from mobility perspective and arrive to a well-defined mobility strategy and roadmap for mobility adaption and execution. Our Advisory Services include Mobility Vision, Implementation Roadmap Mobile Security Strategy Mobile Digital Marketing Strategy Regulatory Compliance Build vs. Buy MEAP Identification, Selection, Integration & Migration Mobile Device Management (MDM) Mobile ROI / TCO Analysis & Telecom Expense Management Mobile Technology Validation (native vs. web vs. hybrid; SoMoClo; online vs. offline) People, Process & Technology Roadmap Mobile Applications Strategy (Internal vs. External)

Case Study: Mobility Strategy Advisory for Actis As a 1st step towards mobility adaption, Actis decided to take a holistic approach towards mobility and build an enterprise mobility strategy and roadmap that could help Actis decision makers identifying TCO, and understanding the ROI from mobile implementation before starting investing into various mobile applications. The challenges include What is needed at Actis in terms of people, process and organization capability to develop mobile applications? How to develop the IT Services (ITS) departments capabilities and infrastructure to develop and deliver mobile applications? Knowhow on Enterprise Mobility, the factors influencing enterprise mobility and their impact. What does it take to enable enterprise mobility at global scale? Identify mobile users, primary stakeholders and their needs, profiles and access to the data. Applications profiles, policy for content delivery. Regulatory compliance and its applicability on mobile data delivery. Building Mobile Software Development Life cycle for ITS. IT Governance compliance against firms security policies. 2 2012, Endeavour Software Technologies

 Telecom expense management and data optimization. Applications Strategy and Identification e.g. Internal vs. External. What are the costs and ROI of enterprise mobile development? Mobile Opportunity Assessment - Endeavours Approach ndeavEndeavour followed 3 step MOA process and worked closely with Actis executive management and various business teams to identify, strategize and recommend mobility strategy & mobile implementation roadmap for mobility adaption at Actis.

Value Gained by Actis Endeavour helped Actis articulate mobility vision, strategy and roadmap to establish an effective foundation for mobile applications delivery at Actis. The deliverables were in the form of a strategy report, proof of concepts for quick-win applications, and phased wise implementation roadmap followed by an executive presentation to Actis execution team. Endeavour helped Actis articulate mobility roadmap for delivering mobile applications in immediate (quick wins), medium to long term. Endeavour also conducted a build vs. buy analysis for mobile device management needs at Actis. Actis Mobility Roadmap Endeavour experts worked with Actis executive management to define quick wins, short, medium and long-term mobility needs and roadmap. Some of the roadmap elements are Phase 1: Messaging and Workflow Present static reports on mobile, Mailbox synchronization, Mobile enable Contacts Application, Approval and Rejection processes in Workflow, BES infrastructure consolidation Phase 2: Business Analytics (BI) - Complete mobile enablement of PUSH based reports from FV, analytics, complete workflow mobilization, shared folder access Phase 3: Disaster Recovery Setup, Complete System Integration and migration Technology Recommendations Short Term: BlackBerry; Medium to Long Term: Migrate to tablet platforms. Endeavour published a questionnaire among mobile users and conducted a survey to assess current mobility landscape at Actis. Endeavour further analyzed existing mobility infrastructure (BES Servers, support infrastructure etc.) at Actis and its vision and needs going forward before narrowing down to a platform and future roadmap. IT Infrastructure Optimization In order to make ensure high availability and better management of the existing IT infrastructure, changes as presented in the following figure were analyzed and recommended. Security and Regulatory Compliance Endeavour assessed Actis existing IT policies, their applicability to mobile infrastructure and applications environment. Endeavour helped Actis build a security strategy that is part of overall 3 2012, Endeavour Software Technologies

organizations strategy and policy for delivering applications on mobile. The security was assessed for various parameters e.g. BES server, application level, device level, data encryption, over the transport, for data storage online vs. offline. Applications Strategy (Internal vs. External) Monitoring applications Mobile Business Analytics (BI) Mobile voice casting applications

About Endeavour Endeavour is a specialist mobility company and has been exclusively focused on strategic mobility advisory and mobile solutions development since 2002. Based on our growth over the last decade Endeavour plays role of a Mobility Systems Integrator and helps enterprises go mobile. With over a decade of proven mobility expertise, enabling award-winning customer deployments, Endeavour is evolving into one of the largest independent enterprise mobility company globally.

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