Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of August 26, 2012

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
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Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
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PwC has predicted mobile advertising and m-commerce will be among the fastest-growing segments in media over the next four years. Mobile-ad spends are predicted to achieve compound annual growth of 46 per cent to 2016, compared with 10.3 per cent for the total Internet market. Read Original Content

Advertising spend on mobile messaging will reach a total $7.4 billion by 2017, according to a report from Juniper Research. This growth will be driven by a surge in use of location-based SMS, Juniper says. Read Original Content

A new report from eMarketer indicates spending on mobile advertising will reach $6.43 billion in 2012, driven by 97 percent growth in the United States, which will account for some $2.3 billion of the total. Read Original Content

Sky Technologies has been making SAP mobility easy since 1998. With Sky, you can mobilize your business and empower your team with solutions that are quick to install, easy to use, highly secure, and already proven in hundreds of SAP mobility projects across the globe. For more information, visit www.skytechnologies.com.

Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, has predicted consumer spending on mobile apps stores and digital content will increase from $18 billion this year to a significant $61 billion by 2016. Read Original Content

A study by research firm Yankee Group says global mobile ad revenue will soar by three and a half times, to roughly $10 billion to $11 billion, by 2016. The surge will be led by high-growth countries such as Brazil, China and India. Read Original Content

Days after a California jury awarded Apple over $1 billion in damages over patent infringements, experts can’t seem to decide what – if any – effect the decision will have on the smartphone market, let alone mobile marketing. Read Original Content

In 2011 venture capital investments in mobile marketing and advertising were $592 million, almost a five-fold increase from $128 million in 2010. InMobi alone secured $200 million in financing last year. Read Original Content

Mobile Apps for Almost Everything

On Monday, August 27, 2012, The Wall Street Journal published The Technology Journal Report dedicated to mobile apps.  The report included some very interesting numbers that I want to share:

• The average smartphone user will download 37 mobile apps this year
• 36 billion mobile apps will be downloaded in 2012
• 136 billion mobile apps are predicted to be downloaded in 2017
• The average smartphone user in the USA spends 94 minutes per day using mobile apps
• The average smartphone user in the USA spends 72 minutes per day using browsers
• There are 650,000 apps available in the Apple App Store
• There are 600,000 apps available in Google Play

In addition to these numbers the article identified many different categories of mobile apps:

• Find Shopping Deals
• Remember Everything
• Find a Restaurant
• Get Fit and Stay Fit
• Go to the Movies
• Take a Trip
• Parenting
• Educating Your Preschooler
• Find a House
• Manage Your Money
• How a Remote Meeting
• Teach Math and Science to Kids
• Prepare a Meal
• Keep Track of Your Kids
• Meet Up with Friends
• Manage Your Passwords
• Read Books, Magazines and Newspapers
• Watch Movies and TV
• Take, Enhance and Share Photos
• Learn to Play Music
• Gardening
• Find a Date

I'm amazed at how thoroughly mobile apps have become a part of our personal and work lives.  I travel a lot.  I use mobile apps continuously.  Even though I have been working in enterprise mobility since 2000, I never stop being excited at cool new apps and impressed with their utility.

This past summer my family traveled with me on my Eggs with Benedict Mobile Strategies speaking tour in Europe.  We utilized the AirBNB app to arrange apartments to stay in.  We loved it!  We used our mapping functionality any time we were confused as to our exact location.  We downloaded maps to our iPhones and iPads while on WiFi connections so we could avoid international data roaming charges.  We researched all of our travel destinations using tablets and smartphones.  We kept track of each other across many different cities so we could meet up at the right places and times.  We did our banking from mobile apps and the mobile web.  We found great restaurants.  We reviewed the Underground schedule in London and bought train tickets all via our smartphones.  Mobile apps and the mobile web have completely changed our travel experiences over the past decade.

The vast amount of information at our finger tips is mind boggling.  It thrills me to think that the best information I can find on the Internet, is available even in the poorest regions of the world via the mobile Internet.  Whenever, I or a family member feels ill, we can quickly look up great medical advice.  Again, this medical advice is available now worldwide.

I travel, write, speak, teach, report, conduct research and interviews all using mobile devices.  My business travels with me.  I use the mobile app TripIt to organize my travels.  I use the mobile Skype app to see and communicate live with my family while I am on the road.

Mobile apps and the mobile web have revolutionized our personal lives, and it is doing the same with complete business processes and industries.  Every company needs to recognize the impact enterprise mobility, the mobile web and mobile apps will have on their industry and their competitive landscape.  It is not just a passing fad.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant

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Full Disclosure: I am a mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of August 26, 2012

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
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Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
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Also read Mobility News Weekly

Juniper Research has released a new report on the future of mobile payments. Juniper predicts that mobile payment transactions will reach $1.3 trillion in the next five years, a fourfold increase. Read Original Content

Deutsche Telekom has taken a major step toward its scheduled launch of the Mobile Wallet initiative next year. The company has finalized its technical service provider for its mobile payment initiative, working out plans for card management and technical processing. Read Original Content

A survey from researcher Yankee Group indicates 46 percent of U.S. consumers use smartphones to check prices and product reviews at stores, up 5 percent from 2010. The study up also found 54 percent of consumers have downloaded a mobile shopping application and 24 percent consider these apps essential. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

PayPal is teaming with Discover to extend its fledgling mobile wallet service to millions of additional retail locations across the U.S.  Read Original Content

The Romney campaign has announced that it will use Square, a mobile platform that allows users to collect payments on a smartphone, at the GOP convention in Tampa. Read Original Content

InMobi has conducted a survey of 1,000 users in the second quarter of this year and found that 59 percent of them had completed mobile transactions while only 38 percent had made purchases using a mobile device in the previous six months. Read Original Content

The results of the latest study by Juniper Research have been released, showing that near field communication technology will have facilitated approximately $74 billion in mobile transactions by the year 2015. Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of August 19, 2012

Every week as I read articles, press releases and news about HTML5 developments, I am struck by how divergent the views are about the role of HTML5 in the enterprise.  I really think your views depend on your background.  If you are a consumer oriented mobile app developer, native is the only way to go.  If you are an enterprise oriented developer, then HTML5 is great.  What do you think?

Now for the news...

Microsoft has announced that the Pulse news app is now available on the Web and built entirely from HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3.  The new Web app shows that “future-Web technologies are rapidly approaching a state where they can easily re-create native app experiences in the browser”.  Read Original Content

To ensure as many visitors as possible can access their website, the Consortium of Foundation Libraries has developed an HTML5 mobile site in addition to their Flash-based website.  (See http://m.sophiaguevara.wix.com/html_cfl for a preview of the site.)  Read Original Content

ReelSEO provides a list and details about popular HTML5-capable video players and destination sites.  Read Original Content

Health crisis info and support site CaringBridge has launched a new interactive HTML5-based website which combines user-generated content with pre-designed video in order to create a new, custom video experience for each user.  Read OriginalContent

Magic Software's UK Managing Director, David Akka doesn’t believe HTML5 is currently suited to enterprise mobile applications.  “There is a lot of hype around HTML. Although it has improved over the last 15 years, it is still highly dependent on web browsers - with all the implications of that.”  Read Original Content

DevCon5’s HTML5 Summit will be held October 3-5, 2012 in Austin, Texas this year in conjunction with ITEXPO.  Read Original Content

HotelTonight’s chief technology officer Christopher Bailey and EyeforTravel’s Ritesh Gupta discuss HTML5 technology for the travel industry in this article “HTML5: Hype or Hope?”.  Read Original Content

This HTML5 article by Jos Dirksen illustrates how to render open data based onto a 3D globe, walking the reader through an infographic.  Read Original Content

A new HTML5 website gives Nintendo fans the opportunity to play classic games on their iPhone browser; however, performance is an issue with some of the games.  Read OriginalContent

As of August 15th, Android will no longer offer Flash for Android devices, making way for HTML5 to take over video on mobile browsers.  Android users with Flash will continue to receive security updates, but that is the extent to which Adobe will continue to support the plug-in. Flash will no longer be available in the Google Play store.  Read Original Content

This tutorial details how to use the Mobile Photo Album JQuery plugin for developers to build JavaScript galleries for mobile devices.  Read Original Content

A recent report from BI Intelligence highlights the pros and cons of native apps and HTML5, giving HTML5 the advantage in distribution and cost, and native apps the advantage in features, user experience and monetization. BII believes that HTML5 will win for the future.  Read Original Content

appMobi is guaranteeing developers will make money creating HTML5 apps by

offering complete access to their development tools and cloud services and only charging for apps that are profitable.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant

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Full Disclosure: I am a mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of August 19, 2012

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 study by research firm Yankee Group says global mobile ad revenue will soar by three and a half times, to roughly $10 billion to $11 billion, by 2016. High-growth countries such as Brazil, China and India will lead the surge. Read Original Content

The latest round of research by mobile ad network InMobi finds that mobile advertising influences 48 percent of consumers on their purchasing decisions, with more late-technology adopters embracing m-commerce, and of those yet to use it, 45 percent expect to do so within the next twelve months. Read Original Content

According to IAB Australia, total mobile advertising expenditures for the past twelve months grew 212 percent and is valued at $47.5 million. Read Original Content

Sky Technologies has been making SAP mobility easy since 1998. With Sky, you can mobilize your business and empower your team with solutions that are quick to install, easy to use, highly secure, and already proven in hundreds of SAP mobility projects across the globe. For more information, visit www.skytechnologies.com.

eMarketer has released projections for ad spending on mobile marketing and found that the total market for advertising globally will reach $6.43 billion this year. Advertisers are expected to spend $2.4 billion on mobile advertising in the United States in 2012, up from $1.23 billion in 2011. Read Original Content

Brands and advertisers spent 150 percent more on mobile ad display prices over the course of the London Olympics Games, research from M&C Saatchi Mobile has found. Read Original Content

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said revenue from Sponsored Stories, the company's news feed ad product, has a run-rate of about $1 million per day, half of which comes from mobile. Read Original Content

Nokia is integrating Groupon daily deals into its Windows Phone-based Lumia device series, a move to expand the scope of its Nokia Maps platform beyond navigation assistance. Read Original Content

Kony Solutions Acquires Long Time SAP Mobility Partner Sky Technologies

Kony Solutions Acquires Sky Technologies

Kony Solutions today announced they have acquired long time Australian based SAP mobility partner Sky Technologies.  This appears to be a bold move by Kony Solutions to jump into the enterprise mobility market in general, and the SAP mobility market in particular.

Kony Solutions wanted to expand into the enterprise mobility arena, and Sky Technologies needed more investment and a bigger, global presence. Both Kony Solution and Sky Technologies have good technology stories and reputations.  This will make them both stronger and more formidable mobile application development platform competitors.  There is definitely market consolidation occurring.

Kony Solutions has been working hard over the last year to expand from their B2C mobility roots into the enterprise mobility space and this acquisition will bolster their credentials as Sky Technologies has over 14 years of experience delivering mobile solutions into the SAP ecosystem and over 100 SAP mobility deployments with large companies.  I have spoken to many SAP/Sky Technologies' customers over the years and have always heard good reports on their mobility solutions.

This spring I had the opportunity to film an interview with Kony Solution's Chief Mobile Officer Sam Lakkundi in which he shares details of their ambitions.  Also, while in Europe this summer speaking on mobile strategies I was able to meet Kony Solutions' Director of Technical Services, Jay Bopa Rai and film an interview him.  I have also recorded interviews with the Sky Technologies team over the years that offer insight into their solutions and focus:

• Interview with Steve Ware
• Interview with Bruce Johnson
• Interview with Roger Newby

SAP customers have went from enterprise mobility famine to feast.  They now have a plethora of good, solid choices to select from.

I invite you to follow me on Twitter @krbenedict and get all the enterprise mobility news and market developments.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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.

Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of August 19, 2012

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

According to a new Forrester Research report, mobile banking will reach 108 million users in the U.S. by 2017, approximately 46 percent of all U.S. bank account holders. Read Original Content

Smartphones will drive more than $730 billion worth of purchases over the next five years, according to Juniper Research. Read Original Content

ABI Research data has shown that over the next five years, the total revenues from mobile apps – including in-app purchases and pay-per-downloads, as well as in-app advertising and subscriptions – will explode. In fact, they are predicted to grow from last year’s $8.5 billion to $46 billion by the end of 2016. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

Mobile-payment transactions are expected to rise nearly fourfold over the next five years, exceeding $1.3 trillion, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Read Original Content

Fashion specialty retailer Nordstrom has jumped on to the mobile shopping bandwagon in style. The company has launched a free iPad app to help customers choose Nordstrom products easily and quickly. The app will enable customers to browse the store and choose products after trying various combinations in the Dressing Room. Read Original Content

McDonald’s is testing a mobile payment service featuring PayPal at 30 of its restaurants in France. Earlier this year McDonald’s ran demonstrations of a broader PayPal mobile payment service at its franchisee conference in Orlando, Florida. Read Original Content

A new study has found that parents with children under the age of 18 are more likely to use their smartphones for shopping activities than people without kids. Overall, 27 percent of parents made an online purchase using their smartphone compared with 17 percent of nonparents. Read Original Content

Dunkin’ Donuts is accelerating its position in mobile commerce with new iPhone and Android applications that lets consumers pay for beverages, food and merchandise at the point-of-sale. Read Original Content

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of August 12, 2012

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 report from eMarketer suggests that spending on mobile advertising will reach $6.43 billion in 2012, driven by 97 percent growth in the United States, which will account for some $2.3 billion of the total. Read Original Content

Mobile advertising influences 48 percent of consumers – putting in on par with desktop advertising and only slightly behind TV advertising (55 percent), research by InMobi has found. Read Original Content

According to Yankee Group global mobile advertising revenue will expand by three and a half times its present level by 2016. Read Original Content

Sky Technologies has been making SAP mobility easy since 1998. With Sky, you can mobilize your business and empower your team with solutions that are quick to install, easy to use, highly secure, and already proven in hundreds of SAP mobility projects across the globe. For more information, visit www.skytechnologies.com

The Interactive Advertising Bureau has reported online advertising for the 2011-2012 financial year reached $3.14 billion, eclipsing the previous record by more than $549 million. Read Original Content

Facebook is testing a new ad system for mobile apps intended to boost downloads from stores like Google Play and Apple's App Store. Read Original Content

According to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers, mobile advertising in Australia has increased 212 percent since in the past twelve months. Read Original Content

According to a survey from Hipcricket some 46 percent of surveyed smartphone owners have viewed a mobile ad; among them, 64 percent have completed at least one purchase as a result of doing so. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of August 12, 2012

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

eBay’s stock experienced sharp growth last week after  releasing new information on it’s successful mobile business. Read Original Content

According to IDC Financial Insights, the number of consumers using their smartphones to complete online or offline transactions has doubled as of May 2012. Read Original Content.

Worldwide mobile payment transactions will total $171.5 billion in 2012, a 62 percent increase from $105.9 billion last year, and could reach $617 billion by 2016, according to research firm Gartner. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

A study by RichRelevance has found that 68 percent of all mobile shopping in 2011 came from iPad users. Read Original Content

Google unveiled changes to its mobile payment system last week. The revamp allows a consumer to load any existing credit or debit card number into a software application, which then can be used to make purchases using smartphones equipped with a special computer chip. The changes aim to eliminate barriers to enrolling in the service. Read Original Content

Mobile banking adoption has tripled in the past two years, according to research from SWACHA. According to the Consumer Insights Survey 20 percent of respondents said they currently bank on their phones, compared to 7 percent in 2009. Read Original Content

Sales figures for online shopping conducted through mobile devices is predicted to reach $730 billion (£468 billion) within the next five years, new research suggests. Read Original Content

According to Nielsen 47 percent of U.S. smartphone owners used shopping apps in June 2012. Out of those apps used, eBay and Amazon topped the list of shopping apps, attracting 13 million and 12 million unique users, respectively. Read Original Content

MDM is Not Dead - Ask the Right Questions

In my former career as the CEO of a mobile application company, I remember my professional services team coming into my office one day and asking me to buy licenses of an MDM (mobile device management) solution from a vendor called Soti. My team wanted to be able to troubleshoot new mobile applications on a large variety of different mobile devices.  They wanted remote access to both the device and the apps so they could understand bugs and issues that were reported from the field.  This is still a very useful feature.

Today, however, few of the MDM/MAM vendors adequately support this feature.  In my experience, the ability to have remote access and remote control of a mobile device is very useful.  I recently interviewed a CEO who shared how it had taken several years and many rounds of change management classes to get his field services technicians comfortable and using mobile technology.  In these kinds of work environments, the team deploying the mobile technology is often struggling to understand if reported software bugs are real, a lack of user knowledge, or a mobile device issue.  In these cases it is far easier for the help desk or professional services team to simply take remote control of the device and investigate the issue themselves.

My professional services team found remote access and remote control to be the fastest way to understand and resolve mobile solution issues.  I would strongly recommend that you ensure your MDM/MAM vendor provides this capability, especially if you are working on customized mobile applications.

Another interesting MDM requirement I have seen in many secure and classified work environments involving research, government and military organizations, is the need to control different mobile applications based on the geographic (GPS) location.  For example, when you enter a particular campus your mobile device camera, Bluetooth and audio recording apps are automatically disabled.  When you leave that geo-fenced area, they are again enabled.  This solution combines GPS tracking, geo-fencing and remote device control.

One of my friends, who is an SAP Mentor, shared that her university work site for years would not allow mobile devices to be brought to work because they contained cameras that were not allowed on the secure research site.  That policy evolved to mobile devices needing to have tape over their camera lenses.  Of course, we can all guess how effective that was.

Many of the MDM/MAM vendors today seem only to target today's consumer type smartphones and mobile applications.  However, in many industries with mission critical mobile applications running on ruggedized industrial grade mobile smartphones and handheld computers, there is a need for a much stronger mobile device management solution.

It is interesting to me that many MDM/MAM vendors champion the cause of BYOD (bring your own device) at work but then don't support that environment.  Many of the MDM/MAM vendors still have a very difficult time supporting all Android OS versions and manufacturer's devices.  When you are selecting an MDM vendor, dig deep with your questions in this area.  Find out, in truth, what exact Android devices and OS versions they can support.  It is almost always a limited subset.  Ask if they have the ability to remote access and remote control mobile devices.  If not, that is OK as long as you understand that up front and it fits your needs.  You just don't want to be surprised and disappointed later.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

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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.

Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of August 5, 2012

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

eMarketer has reported mobile online advertising spending is expected to jump 62 percent worldwide in 2012, with the United States overtaking Japan as the top market. Read Original Content

According to Informa, mobile commerce in AsiaPac is expected to reach $139 billion by 2012, with online advertising spend across the region reaching $22.2 billion by 2014. Read Original Content

According to the Portal Business Resource, in 2015 the global market for mobile advertising will exceed $20.6 billion dollars. Read Original Content

According to Yankee Group, tablets will account for 53 percent of mobile ad dollars in 2014 compared to 47 percent for mobile handsets. By 2016, tablets’ share of mobile ad sales should rise to 60 percent. Read Original Content

eMarketer has released its first projections for ad spending on mobile marketing and found the total market for advertising globally will reach $6.43 billion this year. Read Original Content

Nokia is integrating Groupon daily deals into its Windows Phone-based Lumia device series, a move to expand the scope of its Nokia Maps platform beyond navigation assistance. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of August 5, 2012

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

According to a June 2012 survey including 5,000 Android and iPhone users in the U.S., Nielsen found that 47 percent of those surveyed have used a native shopping app on their phones. The report finds that approximately 45 million U.S. consumers have used shopping apps. Read Original Content

Visa is using the Olympics as an international showcase for mobile payments. The company has installed 140,000 payment terminals in London with NFC chips that enable the tap-and-pay process. The terminal locations include 5,000 London taxis and 3,000 point-of-sale venues. Read Original Content

Forrester Research expects close to 100 million NFC devices, which enable mobile contactless payment, to ship worldwide by the end of the year. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

According to Berg Insight 30 million NFC-enabled smartphones were sold in 2011, of those sold 5 million occurred in North America. Read Original Content

Google has announced substantial improvements to its Android-based wallet app, allowing users to add credit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Financial Services to its e-wallet. Read Original Content

Is Enterprise Mobility Funny?

The answer, according to my wife, is no.  However, I am reading a book on how to write comedy.  I apologize in advance for any offense.

Isn’t it sad to read about Research In Motion’s demise over the past couple of years? Morale is so bad in Waterloo, that psychologist are calling it Blackberry whine.

Mobile security is a very big concern for most executives surveyed.  No CEO wants another Tiger-Woods-text-message-discovery incident happening on their watch.

Foxxcon is a big player in the mobile device industry; in fact they are the world’s largest maker of electronic components and they manufacture Apple’s iPhones and iPads.  If Apple grows any more, China is going to have to drop their one child policy.

Microsoft is preparing to release Windows 8 and they hope this will make them a player in the mobile industry again.  If they don’t come up with a winning solution this time, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will need to step in.

Why were the iPhones so disappointed with their swimming performance at the Olympics?  They were out of sync.

Texting while driving is dangerous.  Your club could injure a spectator.

Providing real-time business analytics on mobile devices is a big trend.  If you are going to confuse a manager, let him be confused away from the office.

Again, my sincerest apologies.

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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

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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 July 29, 2012

HTML5 is really picking up steam this week with SAP, Adobe, Google and Microsoft all announcing additional support, programs and products this week that relate to HTML5.

SAP announced a free mobile developer license, a new SAP Mobile Apps Partner program and additional support for integrating the HTML5-centric software development frameworks from  Adobe, Appcelerator Titanium and Sencha with the SAP mobile platform.  SAP invites the vast mobile developer community to co-innovate with the company and create diverse mobile apps for all business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) environments.  Read Original Content

Adobe, Google and Microsoft have committed to sponsor the World Wide Web Consortium, enabling the W3C to add staff to support the HTML working group’s activities.  Read Original Content

Microsoft’s new Office Web Apps, online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, are HTML5-based and now available for testing.  Read Original Content

Google and the Tate Modern art gallery in London have partnered to create This Exquisite Forest, a collaborative art project powered by Chrome’s HTML5 and JavaScript.  ReadOriginal Content

Espial is hosting a technology seminar titled "HTML5 Apps: The Smart TV Evolution" in Tokyo on July 25, 2012.  The seminar “will explore how HTML5 applications have the power to deliver a more compelling and immersive experience using the next generation of Smart TVs”.  Read Original Content

Adobe has launched the e-Learning Suite 6, a set of tools for creating professional grade e-learning and HTML5 based m-learning content.  Read Original Content

Mobile marketing agency Megascanz has launched its new HTML5-based mobile website building software.  Read Original Content

With the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3G), focusing on different parts of the HTML5 standards, the groups have decided to separate.  The WHATWG group will take charge of an evolving, “living standard” and W3C will work on a more static “snapshot.”  Read Original Content

Ludei, the creator of HTML5 game development platform CocoonJS, has launched a new HTML5 game engine.  The Canvas Advanced Automation Toolkit utilizes pre-designed code snippets to enable developers to bring their games to market quicker.  Read Original Content

appMobi has unveiled a new, free, cloud-based reporting service for PhoneGap and hybrid HTML5 app developers.  According to the announcement, StoreView aggregates and displays detailed app analytics across all the most popular app stores in a single dashboard.  ReadOriginal Content

According to a report from Strategy Analytics titled, “HTML5: No Threat to Native App Dominance”,  HTML5 alone is not the future of apps, but the HTML5 hybrid app will see strong growth.  Read Original Content

Microsoft and shopping site TheFind.com have collaborated to create an HTML5-based website, Glimpse Catalogs.  “The goal was to create something that would leverage the immense reach of the Web without compromising the beauty, richness and performance of an app.”  Read OriginalContent

Online work and project management solution Mavenlink has launched a new mobile app built using HTML5.  The app is designed to provide users with easy access to their workforce collaboration platform on any mobile device.  Read Original Content

According to Appcelerator's developer interest survey, enthusiasm for HTML5 has climbed from 67 percent in the first quarter of 2012 to 73 percent in the second quarter.  Read Original Content

Web graphic designer Nousheen Aquil discusses and provides a new collection of free HTML5 and CSS3 templates (http://www.noupe.com/design/html5-and-css3-collection-fresh-free-web-templates.html) and a collection of HTML5 tutorials and resources for developers (http://www.noupe.com/design/html5-tutorials.html). 

To help developers meet the needs of the growing smartphone market, Intertech is offering a new HTML5 Mobile Development training course.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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.

Mobile Expert Video Series: Sky Technologies' Roger Newby

I have known Sky Technologies' Roger Newby for many years.  He is an expert in enterprise mobility, both on the software and the hardware side of the business.  In this interview Roger shares his insights on mobility and working within the SAP mobility ecosystem.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

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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.

Enterprise Mobility Exchange - Brussels

I have the honor of being able to chair the Enterprise Mobility Exchange conference this week in Brussels.  I took this photo last evening from my hotel window.  I have stayed in worse places.

Here are some of the speakers that I look forward to hearing this week:

• Glenn Morgan, Head of Service Transformation, British Airways
• Divya Mahajan, Director Architect for Enterprise Integration and SOA, Philips International
• Simon Skeet, Retail and Logistics Manager - Groceries Online, Sainsbury's Supermarkets
• Nick Capell, CIO/IT Director, Parcelforce Worldwide
• Jan Kampfer, European Product Marketing Manager, Panasonic Toughbook
• Nicholas McQuire, Research Director, Enterprise Mobility EMEA, IDC Research

I interview a lot of brilliant enterprise mobility experts that work for vendors, but this event is mostly end users sharing their real world experiences.  I expect it to be very interesting.

There are over 40 sponsors here, but some we discuss regularly are SAP, Syclo, ClickSoftware, Sky Technologies, Newelo, Motorola, Panasonic Toughbook, Intermec, Soti, etc.

It is interesting to note that Sybase is not here.  I spoke to an unnamed Sybase person who said they are traditionally at this event, but there is a bit of confusion as to when Sybase should appear, and when SAP should appear at these events right now.  I image this will be worked out soon. 

I will be blogging from Brussels this week.

You can follow this event on Twitter at #emeeu.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

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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.

Enterprise Mobility Podcast Series: Neil McHugh, Part 2

This is Part 2 (see Part 1) of an indepth interview that I recorded with mobility expert Neil McHugh.  We talk about all kinds of strategies that companies must consider when preparing to implement enterprise mobility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1vibltMryY&feature=youtube_gdata



Whitepapers of Note

The Business Benefits of Mobile Adoption with SAP Systems
ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Networked Field Services
Mobile, The Next Big Thing for Business

Webinars of Note

Five Ways to Optimize the ROI of your Mobile Solution
Implementing SAP Enterprise Mobility in Fortune 500 Companies - 10 Lessons Learned 
Barcode Scanning In Mobile Applications
SAP Mobilization - What You Need to Know

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility Group on Linkedin
Read The Mobility News Weekly
Read The Mobile Retailing News Weekly
Read The Field Mobility News Weekly
Read The Mobile Money News Weekly
Read The M2M News Monthly

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.

Mobile Expert Interview Series: Sky Technologies' Neil McHugh, Part 3

Neil McHugh

This is Part 3 in this interview.  Read Part 1 and Part 2 here.

Kevin:  Do companies need a mobility enterprise application platform?
Neil:  We believe so.  Ninety percent of the customers we have deploy more than one mobility project.  Mobility is a strategic IT initiative and by deploying a mobile platform, customers can grow and evolve their mobile infrastructure without having to worry about scalability or supporting multiple application types and can continue to add various mobile devices as technology evolves over time.

Kevin:  Do companies need mobile device management?
Neil:  They should definitely consider MDM if the enterprise owns the devices, not so when they allow users to access data through their own personal devices.

Kevin:  What is the hardest part of working with mobile devices?
Neil:  Just the constant changes of operating system updates….

Kevin:  Where do you see the biggest value in mobile business intelligence?
Neil:  The ability to present data in a dashboard screen where you can view critical aspects of your business in one location. This is extremely advantageous if your data is spread across different systems and you can pull data dynamically into one application. This is a cool app.

Kevin:  What value do you see in location-based services?

Mobile Expert Interview Series: Sky Technologies' Neil McHugh, Part 2

Read Part 1 of this interview.
Read Part 3 of this interview.

Kevin:  What are some of the biggest challenges you see in mobility today?
Neil:  For customers, so many solution options which provide many alternatives but also lots of confusion.  Mobility is critical to a customer’s competitive strategy to ensure efficiencies continually improve and operational costs are reduced.  With so many options, customer may fall for the marketing hype promoted by some of these vendors which harms the credibility of the mobile technology market.  So our challenge, as a mobile solution provider, is to educate customers in technology and ensure they follow a logical evaluation process that will eliminate vaporware vendors and provide them with a solution that works and meets their business requirements.

Kevin:  How are enterprise mobility implementations different from other typical IT projects?
Neil:  I think from an IT project viewpoint there is far more emphasis and focus on the user experience and the interface.  In other non-mobility projects the primary objective was ensuring the solution worked and if it looked nice…that was great.  With mobility, it is all about the application.  How it looks, ease of use which is just as important in today’s world.

Kevin:  What do companies fail to plan for when implementing mobility?
Neil:  Customers sometimes fail to consider and plan for the rapid change in mobile devices.  How they are going to manage and support the increasing number of devices.  How will they implement changes across their entire company when either an application is updated, or the hardware operating system changes.  A good device management system should be considered during their planning stage.

Kevin:  Where can companies find the biggest ROIs when implementing enterprise mobility?
Neil:  There are so many situations where customers can experience significant ROI, but one of the simplest examples are those customers that implement Field Service applications.  Engineers can often be on the road for several weeks which means submitting invoice information back to the admin departments can be delayed which exerts unnecessary pressure on the cash flow.  By deploying mobile applications, engineers have access to customer information, part numbers and prices which enable them to write invoices on the spot.  They can virtually do anything while mobile that they can do in their office.  This solution has a direct impact on the bottom line and improves customer satisfaction dramatically.

Kevin:  What advice do you have for companies just starting down an enterprise mobility path?
Neil:  I would advocate that customers do their own research and not rely on the typical top SI’s or analysts for solution recommendations.  We always suggest that customers go through a complete RFP process and chose the top four vendors.  From there they should ask each vendor to do a POC on site within three days, provide three customer references.  The chosen solution should have the capability and flexibility to evolve and future changes should be easy to change by the customer’s IT staff.

Stay tuned for Part 3 of this interview.

Whitepapers of Note

The Business Benefits of Mobile Adoption with SAP Systems
ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Networked Field Services
Mobile, The Next Big Thing for Business

Webinars of Note

Implementing SAP Enterprise Mobility - 10 Lessons Learned
Barcode Scanning in Mobile Apps
Five Ways to Optimize the ROI of your Mobile Solution

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility Group on Linkedin

Read The Mobility News Weekly
Read The Mobile Retailing News Weekly
Read The Field Mobility News Weekly
Read The Mobile Money News Weekly
Read The M2M News Monthly

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.

Mobile Expert Interview Series: Sky Technologies' Neil McHugh, Part 1

Neil McHugh

Sky Technologies is an Australian based global software company that has been working in the SAP ecosystem and the Oracle ecosystem for nearly a decade.  The last time I checked they had over 100 SAP enterprise mobility customers.  Because of their experience and expertise, I contacted Neil McHugh about an interview and he was kind enough to agree.

Note:  Neil responded to these questions in writing, so these are Neil's words with minor editing.

Kevin:  What are your current roles and responsibilities? How long have you been in these roles?
Neil:  I am the Vice President for Sales & Business Development for Sky and have been working with them for almost three years.

Kevin:  Where are you located?
Neil:  I am located in Houston, but my offices are in Dallas and Palo Alto.

Kevin:  What mobile device(s) do you carry?
Neil:  I carry a iPhone, iPad and laptop when I travel.

Kevin:  What are some of your favorite mobile applications that you have on your mobile device?
Neil:  My favorite apps for my personal life are VectorVest for financial stock monitoring.  OpenTable to find good restaurants and Redbox for my DVD rentals.  From a work viewpoint an application that simplifies my life when I travel such as (Workflow – PO & Expense approval) CRM for accessing customer information.

Kevin:  Do you ever use your mobile device to buy things?
Neil:  I tend to use my iPad to buy things on Amazon, eBay and moving money around when I am buying stock.

Kevin:  How many computing devices do you have in your home?
Neil:  We have two laptops, two iPads, an iPhone and Android.  Six devices if I counted correctly.

Kevin:  How did you get involved in enterprise mobility?
Neil:  Networking with contacts brought me into the world of SAP and mobility.

Kevin:  What do you like most about working with enterprise mobility?
Neil:  I came from a background of mainframes with IBM which was very stable but bordering on stagnant.  Enterprise mobility is quite different, and it is the first time I have worked in a space where consumer and enterprise meet with the same technology.  So, it is a very dynamic space where hardware, software and communications will continue to improve and help us all to be more efficient.

Kevin:  What are some of the most surprising trends you saw in mobility in 2010?
Neil:  Probably the uptake of the iPad and follow-on tablets.  It was only 11 months ago that the first iPad was released and estimates suggest 10 million from Apple and 7 million from other suppliers.  Also, the adoption rate of iPads into the enterprise has been extremely quick.

Read Part 2 of this interview.
Read Part 3 of this interview.

Whitepapers of Note

The Business Benefits of Mobile Adoption with SAP Systems
ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Networked Field Services
Mobile, The Next Big Thing for Business

Webinars of Note

Implementing SAP Enterprise Mobility - 10 Lessons Learned
Barcode Scanning in Mobile Apps
Five Ways to Optimize the ROI of your Mobile Solution

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility Group on Linkedin

Read The Mobility News Weekly
Read The Mobile Retailing News Weekly
Read The Field Mobility News Weekly
Read The Mobile Money News Weekly
Read The M2M News Monthly

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.