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M2M and Enterprise Mobility - The Convergence

It is my opinion that all enterprise mobility vendors need an M2M (machine to machine) strategy.  SAP now sponsors an M2M initiative , and all other mobility vendors are going to need a good story as to how machine data (the Internet of Things) can feed data into back office solutions like SAP through their mobile middleware.  Remember, a lot of M2M data comes in through assets and vehicle GPS tracking systems.  These are mobile objects, automatically sending data back to a server. The world is no longer about people driving long distances, pulling out a clipboard and paper, and writing down data in a rain storm.  Small wireless chips do the monitoring for us.  These M2M or embedded wireless devices measure and monitor and message the data to our servers. Today's assets, facilities, security systems and plant equipment can be configured to use embedded wireless chips to report all kinds of things to us.  This information can automatically trigger service tickets that are dispat

Mobile Expert Video Series: Accenture's Sailesh Tailor

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In this interview, Accenture's utility and mobility expert Sailesh Tailor shares his insights into the UK utility market, and the demand for enterprise mobility and mobile devices in this market.  He discusses both software and hardware strategies. Accenture Mobility offers the following five services: Mobile Strategy and Consulting App Development Device Platform Development Managed Services Business Integration Services (large workforce management solutions)  ************************************************************* Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups Read The Mobility News Weekly Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of May 27, 2012

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In this edition of "What's New in HTML5" I seem to be collecting people's arguments in support of HTML5.  I guess it serves it's purpose of helping people make good mobile strategy decisions.  Enjoy! Companies including the Financial Times of London, Technology Review, NSFW and The Toronto Star are moving away from native apps and putting their support and efforts behind the “build once” HTML5 platform as their mobile publishing platform of choice.   Read Original Content By using features such as geolocation, offline caching, web storage, canvas and others, mobile web apps can hold their own against native apps, thanks to HTML5 and open web standards.  Video and transcript of the educational session, “How to build, distribute and monetize HTML5 mobile web apps” by Emanuele Bolognesi are available.  Read Original Content HTML5 is the best platform for rapid game development available right now, according to an article by University of Texas student Aus

Mobility News Weekly – Week of May 27, 2012

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The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly The latest report from IDC says Android and iOS control a whopping 82 percent of the smartphone market. Android and Apple devices simply dominate with a combined market share of 82 percent.   Read Original Content IDC has released new numbers showing that Android now has a 60 percent market share, while BlackBerry has fallen to a meager 6 percent.   Read Original Content According to a report from advertising network Chitika, the share of internet-connected mobile devices has risen to 20 percent in the U.S. and Canada, a large portion o

Mobile Strategies Workshops in Boston and London

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London Eggs with Benedict, Mobile Strategies Workshops June 12th and 18th, 2012 This is the busy season for a mobility analyst.  This is the time of the year when I achieve my frequent flyer mileage targets.  This is also the time when I meet many new friends and mobility experts.  In the next few weeks I will be presenting three mobile strategies workshops. Boston, June 7th London, June 12th London, June 19th (corrected date, sorry!) In these half-day workshops I will be covering: The latest research numbers on enterprise mobility Mobile Analyst Insights into the Trends - what the trends mean for your company Mobile Business Strategies Mobile IT Strategies Challenges Recommendations Q&A Each of these mobile strategy workshops are small events organized around a breakfast or lunch.  The venues are small and the number of seats will be limited, but if you and/or your colleagues would like to attend, please email me  and I will see what I can do.  This is the

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of May 27, 2012

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The Mobile Marketing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile marketing that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Sense Networks has introduced a pair of new ad services to help marketers and publishers hone in on their mobile audiences through its platform analyzing real-time location data from phones, GPS devices and Wi-Fi. Read Original Content Out-of-home media owner Eye will next month begin a rollout of what it says will be the world’s largest mobile-enabled network of advertising locations. Read Original Content According to the findings of the soon-to-be-released Q1 2012 Rhythm Insights Report from Rhythm, in-stream video ads are out per

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of May 27, 2012

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The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly PayPal has revealed 15 new national retailers that will eventually accept PayPal payments, as well as numerous agreements with terminal makers and point-of-sale software vendors that will significantly increase PayPal's presence as an option in brick-and-mortar stores. Read Original Content Mobile online shopping holds the real opportunity in mobile payments. M-commerce is ramping up, proving that consumers not only like to shop via their mobile device, but also will purchase. Rea

Where is the Mobile Magic Quadrant for the 98 Percent?

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Webalo's Peter Price This article is written by guest blogger Peter Price, the co-founder and CEO of Webalo , a cloud-based SaaS platform that provides an enterprise-to-mobile model. This past week, I met with a customer who had taken the time to visit us at our Los Angeles headquarters. In our cloud-based world of enterprise mobility, this is pretty rare since face-time with customers is not required for them to get the business benefits of our service. So it was a real pleasure to have an opportunity to talk face-to-face.   The part of the conversation that interested me the most was when they described the IT/User reality of their business. Their IT reality is a collection of in-house-developed applications (mixed together with some packaged ISV applications) and the challenge of operating and maintaining this primarily legacy environment in the context of today’s real-time, global, business operations. Their business reality involves mobile users who require access

Infonomics and Enterprise Mobility

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Do you value and manage your enterprise information like it is a strategic asset?  In an insightful article by Gartner Inc.'s Douglas Laney, titled Infonomics: The Practice of Information Economics , the value of company information is explored.  I read this article with great interest and interpreted it in the context of enterprise mobility. Here is Laney's description of Infonomics, "When considering how to put information to work for your organization, it’s important to go beyond thinking and talking about information as an asset, to actually valuing and treating it as one. This is the basis of the new theory and emerging discipline of Infonomics which provides organizations a foundation and methods for quantifying information asset value and formal information asset management practices." In my mobile strategy workshops, I spend time with my clients exploring the value of "real-time" information to a company and the role enterprise mobility pla

Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly – Week of May 27, 2012

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The Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly The new Cyber Navi GPS system uses an augmented reality heads-up display attached to a vehicle’s sun visor and displays the map and directions right in front of the driver.   Read Original Content  A barcode app that assists users in reading what is written in barcodes reached 1 million downloads in 2011.  The “Bar-Code” app, created by a self-employed developer, provides a method to use the scanned barcodes in other software.   Read Original Content The rugged “Presto” tablet used by E La Carte allows diners to view and order from a digital

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of May 27, 2012

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Welcome to the Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016. Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly New research from site monitoring firm Pingdom reveals that mobile web traffic in Asia grew over 192 percent from 2010 to May of 2012, from 6.1 percent to 17.8 percent.   Read Original Content Vodaphone India has launched a “Customer Experience Center” for business customers, enabling them to explore communication solutions.   Read Original Content According to executives at PayPal, mobile commerce in Singapore is predicted to grow ten-fold, to $2.4 billion, over the next three years. It has already grown 660 percent, from

M2M, SAP and Enterprise Mobility

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I had an interesting call with the team at DSI Online this week.  They are a veteran enterprise mobility company, that integrates with Oracle and SAP, and they are also big into M2M (machine to machine) communication.  Any company involved in plant maintenance, enterprise asset management and utilities would benefit from being able to remotely communicate with machines in distant locations and monitor their operations for maintenance and repair requirements. This week I also learned a new M2M related acronym, MBAN (mobile body area networks).  This is the acronym for wireless sensors that can remotely report on the health of the patient wearing them.  In a presentation by SAP's Mobility team in Rotterdam that I attended this week, they showed a slide that said Health Monitoring is going to be one of their mobile priorities.  Can you see the trend toward convergence of M2M and enterprise mobility? According to recent studies by the FCC as reported by The Wall Street Journal in

Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of May 20, 2012

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Rotterdam at the Enterprise Mobility Exchange 2012 This week I was the Chairman of the Enterprise Mobility Exchange in Rotterdam.  During this event HTML5 was a popular topic.  Most of the CIOs and other mobility thought leaders were predicting HTML5 is and will play a big role in their enterprises.  I also spoke to Gil Bouhnick, Mobility Product Manager for ClickSoftware in Spain 2 weeks ago and he was telling me about several large field services implementations they had recently deployed using HTML5.  He also says there are still some unique security issues that need to be addressed by vendors using HTML5. I see progress. As I am writing this article, I am noticing a trend.  There are several media and advertising companies announcing the use of HTML5 apps and platforms.  Interesting! Now for the news... Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs predicts that more than 2 billion mobile devices will sport fully compliant HTML5 browsers by 2016, and states that HTML5 “will ush

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of May 20, 2012

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The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Mobile health in Africa and the Middle East is developing quickly, but there are differences in drivers and characteristics of the mHealth models employed in each of these areas, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. Read Original Content The proliferation of mobile and electronic technologies, both in the United States and overseas, has changed the way medicine is practiced, affecting both physicians and medical students. Read Original Content The growth of global mobile healthcare, while rapid stateside, is limited due to economic

Mobility News Weekly – Week of May 20, 2012

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The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly The Apple iPhone continues to lead mobile video messaging usage, increasing from 7.4 percent to 23.6 percent since August 2011. However, the use of Samsung devices is quickly gaining ground, increasing from 2.9 percent to 21.9 percent over the same period.  Read Original Content Worldwide enterprise wireless local area network segment recorded a growth of 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2012 over the first quarter of 2011, according to a report by the International Data Corporation.  Read Original Content Google has

Rotterdam at the Enterprise Mobility Exchange and Too Long on the Road

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We had a great three days at the Enterprise Mobility Exchange in Rotterdam this week.  This is a great mobility event where most of the sessions are end user lead, and I filled over 9 pages with notes.  If you ever get a chance to attend, it is worth it!  What happens when you spend nearly 4 weeks on the road talking about enterprise mobility and mobile strategies?  The following... Join me next week for a webinar called, Mobilizing the Real Time Enterprise - opportunities, challenges, threats Companies report that this year they are building multiple applications and deploying to multiple user groups. They also report that they are struggling with their mobile strategies, worrying about how to secure their applications, and unsure of what development approach to take. How prepared are you to tackle the complexities of integrating your enterprise systems and mobilizing your critical business applications? The ability to dispatch workers, process orders, update records, and

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of May 20, 2012

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The Mobile Marketing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile marketing that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly A recent study estimates mobile advertising will be a $5.04 billion industry by 2015. HighTable, a startup social website for professionals, compiled data about key factors in the growing mobile marketing space in an infographic. Read Original Content The Holy Grail of marketers used to be a home telephone number and address. Direct mail and telemarketing, despite being some of the most hated forms of advertising, are historically effective. Now mobile takes marketers closer to consumers than direct mail ever will. Read Original Conten

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Optimized Intersections and Mobility

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I believe that it is important to understand high level concepts in order to make sense of detailed plans.  Last week, I was in Spain attending a field services related conference and listened to a field services manager explain the importance of teaching service technicians the economics of service businesses.  He wanted his team to understand what it meant to optimize their business, and the role that mobile technologies played in that optimization effort.  I agreed! In this segment of the Video Comments, I share the concept of Optimized Intersections.  Optimized Intersections consists of the following: Mobilized workforce Latitude Longitude Altitude Time Mobilized Objects I hope you find this concept useful. ************************************************************* Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict Join the SAP Enterpri

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of May 20, 2012

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The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly A new survey from ABI Research shows that smartphone users with a retailer-branded app are better customers, with 45.8 percent of respondents saying the app caused them to visit the store more. Read Original Content A new study from the Interactive Advertising Bureau points to the strong use of mobile by consumers while they are inside a retail store, with 73 percent of respondents saying they have used their mobile in store. Read Original Content Flash Valet, an Austin, Texas-based

Observations from the Enterprise Mobility Exchange in Rotterdam

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Rotterdam I enjoy the enterprise mobility exchange events.  This is my third time being the chairman at these events, and I keep coming back because I learn a great deal.  It is an event dominated by end users, rather than vendors.  I have nothing against vendors, as they sponsor the events and lead some sessions, but the event is organized to give end users an opportunity to discuss their needs, network and learn from other end users and their experiences. In addition to the keynote presentations, there are case studies, think tanks and a CIO session.  The CIO session was very interesting.  CIOs bring a list of topics important to them and submit this list to the other CIOs for discussion.  The subjects are all related to enterprise mobility in the real world and addressing the challenges that come along with it.  I learned. I saw several celebrity sightings yesterday including Nicholas McQuire, Research Director, IDC Research and Daniel Faulk, SAP Mobility Product Manager.

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Velocity in Field Services

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Last week I was speaking and teaching sessions on mobile strategy in Barcelona.  I took the opportunity before the conference started to record a video comment on the concept of "Field Service Velocity."  I hope you find this useful. ************************************************************* Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups Read The Mobility News Weekly Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly – Week of May 20, 2012

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The Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly Also read Mobile Health News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly By leveraging GIS technology to automate the collection of field data, Intermountain Gas Company obtained a 20 percent improvement in the efficiency of field survey crews.   Read Original Content KORE and ILS Technology have formed a partnership to accelerate M2M deployments across enterprise organizations.  The goal is to enable organizations to access, view and analyze M2M data on existing enterprise IT systems.   Read Original Content To aid developers in selecting the appropriate cellular and connectivity hardware for their M2M devices, Q

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Mobilized Objects

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In this short video I discuss the concept of mobilized objects.  You can mobilize much more than just a workforce, and it is important to recognize how mobilizing many different objects can benefit your enterprise. ************************************************************* Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups Read The Mobility News Weekly Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.