Strategy Analytics forecasts global business (personal and corporate liable) tablet shipments will grow at a 7% CAGR between 2014 and 2019, which translates into unit sales of 89.4 million units in 2014 to 123.8 million units in 2019. The personal-liable user model for business tablets is meeting less resistance and volumes are expected into increase at a 6% CAGR in the five-year span between 2014 and 2019. There are a number of reasons contributing to enterprises accepting BYOD: flattening IT budgets and a lengthening device upgrade cycle, a significant rise in individual tablet purchasing, maturing mobile device management solutions, and the opportunity the practice offers to enforce policies on the growing infiltration of personal devices.

Corporate-liable tablet volumes will increase at a steeper pace than personal-liable volume in the latter forecast years. Driven by tablet adoption by individuals within the enterprise, companies will continue to refine their line-of-business applications and processes for the touchscreen paradigm and will increase their enterprise tablet