One obstacle to paperless mortgage applications in the US has been removed with the US Internal Revenue Service introducing the ability for crucial paperwork to be electronically signed and submitted.

The 2012 Australian “Consumerisation of IT” research into enterprise mobility, commissioned by Unisys and conducted by Forrester Consulting, reveals that while many large organisations see smartphones, tablets and employee-owned devices in the workplace as inevitable, the majority are lagging in providing employees with more than basic (email/calendar) mobile applications to take advantage of this new mobility.