Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of January 16, 2011

Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016, so I am now tracking developments in this market on a weekly basis and publishing my research here.

Standard Chartered Bank - India has provided 12,000 iPhones to employees across 70 countries, replacing some 8,000 BlackBerry devices, and has developed a range of custom-built apps to streamline internal processes. “Our increasing usage of, and dependence on smartphones allows our employees to utilize a wide array of applications anywhere and at anytime,” reports Matthew Norris, CIO, Standard Chartered Bank - India. 

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“The world is becoming more social. Just as e-business changed business forever, now, 10 years later we find ourselves at another junction: the coming of age for Social Business—as social computing, policies, governance and cultures are integrated into enterprise design. The explosion of mobile devices and new Cloud delivery models has paved a unique way for industries to take step further in transforming the era of Social Business,” predicts James Velasquez, Country Manager, IBM Philippines.

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“At present about 7-8 percent of any corporate workforce is given phones by the employers. We see this increasing as more and more corporates replace laptops with smartphones,” says Suresh Vedula, Director, Enterprise Mobility, Nokia India.

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According to a study by International Data Corporation (IDC), mobile workers will be over 37% of the total workforce by 2015.  The largest growth is forecast for Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan), from 601.7 million in 2010 to 838.7 million mobile workers in 2015.

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Mobile payment solutions provider Trunkbow International Holdings Limited announced on January 10, 2012 a partnership has been formed with China’s bankcard association China UnionPay to develop a new mobile payment applet.

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All Deals Asia launched an iPhone app in early January, 2012, and is working with e-commerce and discount sites to become an aggregate deal site in the Asia Pacific Region.

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Online shopping in India is growing, with one report showing an 18 percent increase in the past year, and the growth is expected to continue.

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According to a report by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), one-third of the mobile users in India use data and internet services via their mobile devices.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and 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.
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Mobility News Weekly - Week of January 16, 2012

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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ZTE is best known for the phones it sells in China, its home market. In recent years, though, ZTE has begun to make inroads in the U.S, although its progress has been largely invisible to consumers.  Read Original Content

Google’s strong holiday quarter results may take a backseat to growing concerns about long term margins after it dives into a fiercely competitive smartphone market through its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings.  Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

A new Localytics' study found that of the people who made an in app purchase, 44% did not do so until they had interacted with the app at least ten times. On average, a user who makes an in app purchase will do so 12 days after first launching the app.  Read Original Content
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Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of January 16, 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.

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The global redemption rate of mobile coupons will average over 8 percent by 2016, which represents an eightfold increase over the best paper coupons campaigns, according to a study by Juniper Research. Redemption values are expected to exceed $43 billion globally by 2016, driven by better targeting and mobile apps. Read Original Content

According to InMobi, within the past year there has been a 251 percent growth in mobile advertising impressions globally on the InMobi network, and global smartphone impressions increased 488 percent. Read Original Content

The annual survey of interactions on BuzzCity’s network demonstrated that mobile ad impressions increased 139 percent year on year with over seven markets, including the UK, now serving a billion ads each quarter. Read Original Content

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Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of January 16, 2012


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.



According to a new report from research firm NPD, iOS’s U.S. market share (by sales) jumped from 26 percent in the third quarter of 2011 to 43 percent by October and November. Android, however, came out on top, with a 47 percent market share during those two months, down from 60 percent in the third quarter. Read Original Content



According to research by Gartner, the iPad will continue to be the most popular tablet device sold through 2012. Gartner estimates that 70 million iPads will be sold through 2012 with 23 million Android tablets falling into a distant second. Read Original Content



App research firm Flurry estimates that a combined total of 1.2 billion apps were downloaded during the holiday week between December 25 to 31. That compares to an average of 750,000 mobile apps downloaded per week earlier in December, or a 60 percent jump. Read Original Content


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What's New in HTML5 Week of January 16th?


AT&T to Launch HTML5 App Store, Offers SDK for Mobile Web Developers

AT&T’s new AppCenter is an Android app store which will sell “unwrapped” HTML5 apps, promoting HTML5 as an alternative to native mobile apps.  The AppCenter was launched January 9, 2012, and is available in beta form on Android devices, with plans for additional platforms in 2012.  According to a January 11, 2011 article in Ars Technica, “AT&T Offers HTML5 SDK for Third-party Mobile Web App Developers”, the company has also “released a set of JavaScript APIs and a software development kit (SDK) that provide Web developers with access to certain mobile network features”.
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Microsoft Offers HTML5 Version of Popular Cut-the-Rope Game

 A new HTML5 version of Microsoft’s Cut-the-Rope game was announced on January 9, 2011 at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.  The popular game is now available to all web browsers using HTML5.
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See related article from Business Insider, “Look Out, Apple--The Future Of Web-Based Apps Is Here, And It's Gorgeous”






Amazon Announces HTML5 Kindle Store for iPad

On January 10, 2012, Amazon launched a Kindle store that is web-based and specifically designed for the iPad.  To see the store, go to www.amazon.com/iPadKindleStore from your iPad’s Safari browser.
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Upcoming Webinar on HTML5 for Geospatial Applications

The Timmons Group is sponsoring a webinar on Tuesday, January 31, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST.  The webinar focus will be on web-based mobile applications, HTML5, and new browser standards for local storage and geo-location.  To register for the webinar, go to https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/962282486.
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Google Presents New HTML5 Video Tool as Open Source

The Video Player Sample web app is built with open web technology.  According to Google, "When a user opens the Video Player Sample web app, they can choose to watch a single video or create a playlist of videos/episodes from a list that they have uploaded and populated to the app."
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How Long is too Long for Mobile App Development?

A few years ago my team was developing a massive mobile application for a food and beverage distributor.  It was a mistake.  The complexity of the application, basically a mobile ERP, required an extended length of development time.  During this development cycle, the requirements changed weekly as our customer thought more about each workflow and business process.

The complexity of this custom mobile application, developed as one large mobile app, ensured repeated lengthy debugging efforts, increased costs and length of development time.   This was around 2005 and we had a lot to learn.

The project was ultimately done successfully and to everyone's satisfaction, but we experienced pain and learned a great deal.  Just about every company of size will have some need for custom mobile applications, however, do each of these applications need to be giant apps with long development times?  I think not.  The food and beverage mobile app should have been about a dozen different mobile apps.  Yes, they could share a menu or UI, but behind the curtains there should have been many separate apps that could be independently developed, tested and updated.

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An additional challenge was that every new version of the mobile app required a major effort to update all of the remote workers, mobile devices.  This was an inconvenient and expensive effort.

Today, there are new mobility vendors and strategies that approach these kinds of projects differently.  Webalo, for example, enables their customers to configure their own mobile apps in hours online in a SaaS based model in the cloud.  I read a press release about one of their recent customer projects today that was interesting and highlighted how much this model is different from the development and deployment models of old.  Here is a quote from their customer Nixon Hire, "Our customers’ needs are constantly changing, so we need to be flexible, and flexibility was one of the advantages we saw in Webalo,” said David Balmer, Group IT Manager at Nixon Hire. “We’re able to select the exact data and functionality that each mobile employee needs and give them mobile access in a remarkably short time for an insignificant cost.”

Many business models require constant and rapid changes to mobile apps.  I remember meeting with a large utility contractor about their mobility needs.  The utility contractor absolutely required mobile apps, and believed they would benefit from them but to my knowledge they never got them.  Why?  Every contracted job they did had different data requirements.  Building custom mobile apps that took months to design, development and deploy would never work for them.  They required a mobility vendor that would enable them to rapidly develop, edit, configure and deploy in days.  They needed basically a disposable mobile app for each new project.  This is not supported by your average mobility vendor business model.

Companies that require disposable mobile apps, or apps that need to be changed often and rapidly need a business model where they can subscribe to mobile services, rather than particular mobile apps.  Also, companies just learning about mobility can benefit from cloud based mobile solutions that can be quickly developed and configured for proof of concepts.

It is also important to recognize when the content of a mobile app is more important than the mobile app itself.  Sometimes you are just looking for a name or number.  Sometimes you just want to say "yes" or "no" to a question.  It does not require rocket science for these kind of solutions.

Aberdeen Group, in their Mobility in ERP 2011 report, said best in class companies should be looking to deliver "role" based mobile websites (or mobile apps).  What does this mean?  It means having the ability to quickly develop custom mobile apps/websites for each person or role in your company.  In order to accomplish that goal, you need a different business model than most mobility vendors are set-up to provide.

More from Aberdeen Group,  "Best-in-Class companies spend 25% of the work week trying to access information, all the others spend almost 40% of their time trying to access information."  Sometimes just providing quicker access to information via a mobile app is enough of an ROI.





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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of January 16, 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.

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eBay has announced its predictions for 2012, which include $7 billion in total mobile payment volume, as well as $8 billion in gross mobile merchandise volume. Read Original Content

A survey of 1,000 British consumers revealed a dramatic increase in the use of mobile phones for holiday shopping. Thirty percent of consumers used their phones in some way as part of their holiday shopping, compared to only 10 percent who did so last year. Read Original Content

Near-field communications enabled smartphones from LG, RIM and Samsung have received certification to support the Visa payWave, a mobile app for payments at point of sale. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.
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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of January 16, 2012

The Field Mobility 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.

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Boeing has developed an RFID solution that allows airlines to track the status of equipment and engine parts throughout air travel. This solution allows airlines to gather data on how equipment and parts are damaged through sustained flight. Read Original Content

EZid has released a new electronic ear tag for cattle. The ear tag provides accurate, cost effective RFID identification for use in dairy parlors, cow-calf and feedlot operations. Read Original Content

The U.S. Postal Service has launched a new mobile application for iPhone users that allows them to use the device's camera to scan barcodes on shipping labels for quick, easy and convenient tracking of their packages and other mail. Read Original Content

Since 1995, Syclo has enabled hundreds of companies in 37 countries and industries supercharge their businesses with mobility.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Syclo. http://www.syclo.com/.

Brunton, a case maker for smartphones, has recently developed a rugged iPhone 4 case that is equipped with a solar panel that allows rugged smartphone users to continually charge their device while in the field. Read Original Content
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Enterprise Mobility, Remote Sensors and Nervous Systems

I have been researching and writing about the M2M (machine to machine) market for the past three years.  I have written analyst papers that predicted the convergence of enterprise mobility and M2M.  Today I feel even stronger about that prediction.

M2M solutions, enable machines to report to other machines data from integrated sensors.  This sensor data is analyzed so it can be used by other machines to respond with actions.  These kinds of solutions are becoming common today as wireless embedded chips (M2M) decrease in price and are readily available.  Home security systems, our in-vehicle entertainment systems, e-Readers, integrated GPS solutions, smart appliances, smart grids, etc., all have these solutions and they are used by individuals and companies today.







When businesses are developing their mobile strategies, they are increasingly incorporating mobile and remote sensor data into their plans.  The data from both human inputs (with mobile devices) and M2M sensors are in many cases equally valuable.  This data is aggregated, integrated and analyzed to optimize their business operations and business models.

Data collection systems from any source, M2M solutions, mobile devices, GPS tracking systems and remote sensors all offer valuable inputs.  In many ways it is similar to our bodies' nervous systems.  Our bodies have many different sensory systems that collect data and forward it on to the brain to be analyzed before action is taken (with the notable exception of involuntary reflexes).

  • visual system (vision - interpretation of visual light, the identification and categorization of visual objects; assessing distances to and between objects; and guiding body movements in relation to visual objects, etc.)
  • auditory system (hearing - interpretation of sound waves)
  • Somatosensory system (touch - itch, pain, tickle, pressure, temperature, posture, movement)
  • Gustatory system (tastes - sweet, salty, sour, bitter)
  • Olfactory system (smell - detects volatile chemicals and fluid phase chemicals)

The data from these sensory systems is what we as humans use to do everything.  How does our businesses use sensory data effectively?  Let's take a moment now to look at a few components of our nervous system for lessons we can apply to our enterprise's mobile strategies.






The central nervous system, consists mainly of the brain and spinal cord, and integrates information that it receives from, and coordinates the activity of, all parts of the body.  The peripheral nervous system, connects the central nervous system to sensory organs (such as the eye and ear).  The somatic nervous system controls voluntary muscular systems within the body.  The autonomic nervous system acts as a control system functioning largely below the level of consciousness.  It affects things like the heart rate, digestion, respiration rate, salivation, perspiration, diameter of the pupils, etc.

Now let's apply the components of our body's nervous system to an enterprise.

  • The central nervous system is our ERPs, business applications and business intelligence solutions.
  • The peripheral nervous system is our mobile middleware (MEAPs) and integration layers.
  • The somatic nervous systems are our workflows, alerts, approvals, plant control systems, etc.
  • The autonomic nervous system is our automated workflows, remote sensor, M2M and mobile device data synchronization and integration, automated queries, automated reports, dashboards, email deliveries, etc.    

Having large volumes of sensory data does not help unless it can be interpreted, analyzed and used to make good decisions.  The same with our enterprises.  It does not help to have large volumes of data coming into your enterprise unless it can be integrated, analyzed and used to make good decisions.

I believe some of the biggest challenges over the next three years will be in setting up these enterprise "nervous systems" and finding a way to analyze the large volumes of real-time data coming in from them. Best in class companies will implement these solutions and will transform their companies into organizations that resemble living organism that can act upon real-time data.


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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer
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M2M News Weekly - Week of January 9, 2012


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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IMS Research predicts that by 2016 annual revenues from the smart gas meter market will reach over $1 billion, roughly four times the 2011 market estimate. Read Original Content

Japan's Toshiba Corp has announced that it plans to enter the smart home energy market in the United States at the end of this year and generate $129.68 million in revenue by the fiscal year ending March 2016. Read Original Content

Early predictions for 2012 indicate healthcare will be a booming sector of the M2M technology market. Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

From less than 90 million connections globally in 2010 the automotive M2M market will grow to almost 1.4 billion connections by the end of 2020, representing €157 billion revenue. Read Original Content
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