The Importance of Mobile EAM and M2M

Wireless Remote Sensors
In a session I attended on enterprise mobility a few weeks ago the speaker said that he divides mobility into three parts; 1) Extending mobility to internal employees, 2) Extending mobility to external customers, and 3) mobile EAM (enterprise asset management).  What do you think of those categories?

SAP announced their first three mobility applications that will be released in the next 5 weeks and one of them is mobile EAM that integrates with SAP.  They prioritized EAM, and then met with their co-innovation partner Syclo to ensure them that they were making a simple/basic EAM application and not competing in a significant way with the complex, industry specific mobile EAM applications that Syclo has invested in over the past decade.  At the same time Syclo is now embracing SUP as their platform for SAP customers.

In the mobility ecosystem SAP had three early co-innovation partners; RIM, Sybase and Syclo.  One of their co-innovation partners was a specialist in EAM.  Again, SAP prioritized mobile EAM.
 
Jim Snabe, Co-CEO of SAP mentioned sensors many times in his presentations during SAPPHIRENOW 2011.  Remote and wireless sensors are used primarily to monitor, track and manage enterprise assets.  High value assets of all kinds are now including wireless embedded sensors.  I spoke with the IT team at Whirlpool appliances last year about this subject and they have an entire product line of appliances that are "smart" and communicate with wireless sensors.

The military (download and read this whitepaper) and the healthcare industry are embracing M2M as fast as they can fund and implement it.  What is your organization doing to take advantage of EAM solutions and M2M?

Whitepapers of Note

The Business Benefits of Mobile Adoption with SAP Systems
ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Networked Field Services

Webinars of Note

3 Critical Considerations for Embracing Mobile CRM
Exclusive SAP Mentor and Blogger Briefing:  Syclo and SAP Deliver Mobile Apps on Sybase Unwired Platform
The Future of Enterprise Mobility
The Latest m-Business Trends and How the Onslaught of Mobile Devices Affects Development Strategies
The Real-Time Mobile Enterprise:  The Benefits of Rapid, Easy Access
Redstone Arsenal's (DOD/Chugach) 3 Maintenance Challenges Solved by Mobile


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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
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.

SAP ECM Partner Open Text Adds Mobility

Did anyone else miss this recent press release from SAP ECM (enterprise content management) partner Open Text?  They are investing in mobility, even though they are a company primarily focused on ECM.  I tried my very best to meet up with Patrick Barnert at Open Text but we kept missing each other at SAPPHIRENOW 2011.

Here are some of their current mobility solutions:
Open Text focuses on on ECM.  Content is needed on mobile devices.  They also have document management systems.  Documents need to be accessed by mobile devices.  They are the developers of the SAP Vendor Invoice Management solution.  This is basically a transactional content management system.  A solution for monitoring and tracking the progress of a transaction or document.  It works with the SAP workflow and workflows need approvals, alerts and notifications.

You can see from the above information that mobility and mobile solutions will impact just about every aspect of the enterprise and enterprise solutions.


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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
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.

M2M News Weekly - Week of May 30, 2011 **Special Edition

This is a special edition of the M2M News Weekly.  In this edition I have collected the best market and trend numbers from the past few months and aggregated them into one edition.  You can save this edition and use these numbers in your own business plans and presentations.




Juniper Research reports that the M2M market by 2016 will see revenues of over $35 billion. Read Original Content

The global market for satellite M2M services is projected to reach $1.7 billion by the year 2017. Read Original Content

By 2020 there will be 1.5 billion M2M connections in the utilities business, the majority coming from smartmeters. Read Original Content

According to Berg Insight, M2M technology in mobile communications will double by 2015. Read Original Content

The U.S. market for smart grid technologies is expected to increase to $37.4 billion in 2014, for an annual growth rate of over 16 percent. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly - Week of May 30, 2011 **Special Edition


This is a special edition of the Mobility News Weekly.  In this edition I have collected the best market and trend numbers from the past few months and aggregated them into one edition.  You can save this edition and use these numbers in your own business plans and presentations.

Read The Mobility News Weekly

Overall mobile phone sales totaled 427.8 million units in the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 19 percent from the same period in 2010. Smartphone sales added up to 100.8 million, compared to 54.5 million in the first quarter last year. They now account for 23.6 percent of mobile phone sales, an increase of 85 percent since the first quarter of 2010, according to Gartner.  Read Original Content

Home usage of the PC is down 20 percent since 2008, according to a Morgan Stanley report examining the burgeoning tablet market.  Read Original Content

Aided by the typical two year turnover in mobile phone contracts, smartphones now account for nearly a third of mobile devices in the U.S.  Nielsen estimates that percentage will reach 50 percent by the end of this year. Read Original Content

The number of people who use Internet enabled mobile devices is expected to pass one billion by 2013.  According to eMarketer, mobile advertising spending will increase from a mere $416 million in 2009 to $1.560 billion in 2013. Read Original Content

Recent statistics from comScore show that Google’s smartphone platform market share jumped 7 percent from November to February - a period in which nearly all of its competitors declined. Read Original Content

Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of May 30, 2011 **Special Edition

This is a special edition of the Mobile Marketing News Weekly.  In this edition I have collected the best market and trend numbers from the past few months and aggregated them into one edition.  You can save this edition and use these numbers in your own business plans and presentations.

Also read The M2M News Monthly

Research by InMobi shows that within the past three months mobile advertising has grown by 17 percent. Read Original Content

The global mobile marketing and advertising market is estimated to grow from 2.25 billion in 2009 to 17.9 billion in 2015, a 41 percent growth rate, according to research from Berg Insight. Read Original Content

According to ABI Research, location-based mobile social networking revenues will reach $3.3 billion by 2013. Read Original Content

According to a study by comScore, 16.7 million U.S. smartphone users are currently subscribed to location-based services. Read Original Content

With over 700 million people using mobile phones in India, the mobile advertising industry is expected to grow by approximately 300 percent over the next two to three years. Read Original Content

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