"The iPhone 5 is going to trigger another wave of devices," says SAP AG CIO Oliver Bussmann, whose company has 13,000 iPhones for employees. "Last year, in the first months after the iPhone 4S launch, we had at least 1,600 [new] devices. We expect similar demand with the iPhone 5 in the months of October and November."

Slideshow:

So what, exactly, does the iPhone 5 bring to the enterprise table?

For starters, the iPhone 5's 4-inch screen and faster processor won't be used just for better gaming and video watching-executives will be able to more easily and quickly consume corporate data. Let's face it, business analytics can be tough to view on a tiny screen. Now it's up to business iOS apps developers to tune their apps to take advantage of the bigger screen.

"More real estate to look at a company dashboard, a customer profile, all those things, will be helpful," says Forrester analyst Frank Gillett.