Reporting from Tokyo on Enterprise Mobility

View from SAP's
Tokyo Office
This week I am in both Tokyo and in Singapore leading workshops on enterprise mobility.  K2 Partnering organized these workshops to help educate companies on mobility.  On Monday we conducted a workshop to a full house in the Century Court Marunouchi, which is the building General McArthur used during the rebuilding and reconstruction years following WWII.  It is located directly across the street from the Imperial Palace grounds.

It seems that in Japan mobility is very advanced at the consumer level, but not so much in the enterprise.  I met with folks from Danone (yogurt-CPG), Gap (retail), Fujifilm, Novartis, Accenture, SAP, Cognizant and many others during this event.

Yesterday afternoon I had the privilege of meeting with the SAP Telecom business unit for APJ and the enterprise mobility folks in their downtown Tokyo office.  What an amazing view and great teams!  They are seeing a huge demand for enterprise mobility across Asia and are very actively recruiting more people to join the SAP team to focus on mobility.

Side note #1 - I asked the team from K2 Partnering yesterday what they typically eat for lunch in Tokyo - the answer was Korean food.  That struck me as funny.

Side note #2 - I had delicious noodle soup after a  morning run yesterday.  I found a tiny noodle shop in the middle of the gigantic Tokyo fish market.  I saw massive Tuna being carted around to be cut into fresh sushi.

Side note #3 - the heated toilet seats are an interesting touch.

Today, another enterprise mobility workshop before heading to the airport and Singapore.


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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and 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.
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Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of November 14, 2011

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.

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According to the latest study of iResearch, the population of mobile payment users in 2011 worldwide is estimated to reach 141 million, an increase of 38.2 percent over 2010. Read Original Content

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Starbucks recently announced that its mobile payment app Starbucks Mobile Pay has generated over $20 million in purchases throughout the 9,000 locations with the payment feature. Read Original Content
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Mobile Expert Video Series: Webalo's Rob Edenzon

In this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series I interview Webalo's Rob Edenzon on enterprise mobility in the cloud, and new ways of implementing mobile solutions in hours rather than weeks or months.






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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 14, 2011

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has begun a pilot program that uses RFID technology to increase the security and rate of passage at the Paso del Norte Bridge border crossing. Read Original Content

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Farmers and field scientists can now instantly identify diseases attacking crops and plants, thanks to a Michigan State University professor’s new invention. Dr. Syed Hashsham has developed the Gene-Z device, which performs genetic analysis using a low-cost handheld device and is operated using smartphone technology. Read Original Content
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Mobile Expert Video Series: Freedomone Mobile's Pierre Paul Samson

In this interview Pierre Paul Samson and I discuss Freedomone Mobile's new "context" aware mobile solution, its market and how if offers value.




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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Mobile Medical News Weekly - Week of November 7, 2011

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By the summer of 2012 MobiHealthNews predicts that the number of iPhone apps for healthcare professionals will jump from almost 4,000 today to nearly 6,000 apps. Read Original Content

According to ongoing studies by Pew Research the number of smartphone users who have downloaded health related apps has increased only two percent since 2010. Read Original Content

This past week Apple published more than 240 apps to the health and medical categories of its AppStore. Read Original Content

According to a survey compiled at the UAE’s Mobile Show earlier this year, 93 percent of respondents believe the mobile health industry can improve the quality and availability of healthcare in the Middle East. Read Original Content

According to a mobile marketing research group, 500 million smartphone users will be using a health care application by 2015. Read Original Content

Technavio's analysts forecast the Global Mobile Health Applications market to grow at an annual rate of 24 percent over the period 2010 to 2014. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the worldwide growth of remote patient monitoring. Read Original Content
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M2M News Weekly - Week of November 7, 2011

Welcome to M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices.  I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article.  I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market.

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Cellular M2M subscriptions are expected to increase almost fourfold between 2010 and 2016, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. The volume is expected to increase from 72 million to 282 million by 2016. Read Original Content

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Asia-Pacific is forecast to become the largest market for M2M subscriptions in terms of volume in 2013, and in 2016 is expected to account for 37 percent of the total market, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. Read Original Content

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Pike Research predicts that the trend of increasing M2M application in the utilities sector will result in 73 million cellular M2M communications nodes from 2011 through 2020. Revenue is expected to reach $1.9 billion during the forecast period. Read Original Content


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Mobile Expert Video Series: GE Healthcare's Jeff Hunt

I love discovering new enterprise mobility ROIs (return on investments), and Jeff Hunt with GE Healthcare provides some very interesting ones and their values in this video interview.




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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Mobility News Weekly - Week of November 7, 2011

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.

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Swedish telecom giant Ericsson believes that mobile data traffic will increase ten-fold by 2016.  Read Original Content

American Express Co., the biggest credit-card issuer by purchases, plans to invest $100 million in technology companies as it develops its digital-payments system, Serve. Read Original Content

According to a newly released Nielsen report on the U.S. smartphone market, Apple is still the top manufacturer with a 28 percent share.  As far as operating systems are concerned, Android is the leader with 43 percent of the smartphone market in third quarter 2011.  Read Original Content

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ComScore's September MobiLens survey of over 30,000 mobile phone users found that Android was being used on close to 45 percent of the 87.4 million smartphones in the United States, up from 40.2 percent in June.  Read Original Content
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Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of November 7, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.



Flurry Analytics conducted a study on the amount of usage spent on iOS and Android applications. Flurry found that the United States took 55 percent of global app sessions between the two operating systems, with 28 percent being taken by the remaining top 10 countries, and 17 percent controlled by the rest of the world. Read Original Content




Shortly after the first weekend selling iPhone 4S devices, Apple announced that the company had sold over 4 million units during that three day period. Apple again has set the record for fastest selling electronics device for an opening weekend. Read Original Content



A new report published by Machina Research forecasts the global smart meter growth through 2010-2020. North America is projected to lead the world in the number of connected meters and is on track to reach 1.6 billion smart meters by 2020. Currently the United States and Italy are the global leaders in installed smart meters. Read Original Content



Within the past year the world has experienced rapid growth in the number of mobile applications downloaded. China leads the world with an 870 percent increase in mobile apps since 2010, with Argentina taking second place. The United States does not make the top ten world rankings, however it does control the majority of app sessions. Read Original Content

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