IDG Contributor Network: Six important wearable app categories every enterprise needs to know

We've heard it since the discussion on wearable devices first began: wearable devices are a niche market, they say. Wearables are a fad, we hear.

Well, they better think again.

Many use cases are undeniably suited for enterprise wearable apps, and they promise to profoundly change, over the years ahead, how people interact with their applications, data, and even environment. Juniper Research expects the broad wearables market to grow ten fold in the next four years to $53.2 billion in 2016. That's up from $4.5 billion in 2014.

I spend a great deal of my time talking to customers about what they need from wearable devices for their business. Throughout these discussions, a number of common use cases typically emerge. I wanted to share six important wearable app categories every enterprise needs to know.

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