"Businesses moving away from BlackBerry, and the rise of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon is making mobile device management (MDM) one of the hottest markets for enterprise IT," said Ovum in a statement today. "The challenge for CIOs is how to manage and secure data, while exploiting the innovation and productivity benefits that embracing the major smartphone platforms can deliver."

In its latest Solutions Guide, the technology analysts reveals that no longer is mobile devices management (MDM) purely the domain of specialist enterprise mobility vendors.

Vendors from a variety of backgrounds across the IT and telecoms space are looking to grab clients in this market as it becomes a gateway to a larger enterprise managed mobility industry, according to Ovum.

The guide also highlights strong support for remote device security capabilities across a range of mobile operating systems. However, limitations of the major OS platforms are preventing vendors and enterprises from implementing consistent remote management and data security strategies.

Data collected by Ovum from the MDM vendors signals that in the workplace, Apple's iOS is the preferred platform, with 40 percent of the devices managed on MDM platforms by enterprises. Elsewhere, Android (16 percent) is still behind BlackBerry (24 percent).