Exploring the Future with Kevin Benedict

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.

Mobility News Weekly Podcast, Week of April 25, 2011

At the end of each week now I am recording a podcast of all the mobility related news that my team has covered in our weekly newsletters. It is available as a streaming podcast, or you can download it to your mobile device and listen to it later. Enjoy!

Listen to the Podcast now!

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

The Real-Time Mobile Enterprise: Aberdeen Group Report and the Benefits of Rapid, Easy Access
Redstone Arsenal’s (DOD/Chugach) 3 Maintenance Challenges Solved by Mobile
The Future of Enterprise Mobility

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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

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.

Efficient Workforces and Network Centric Mobility Strategies

NHS's Stephen Chilton

I interviewed Stephen Chilton from the UK's NHS (National Health Services) today about their enterprise mobility solutions and plans. I will publish the entire 29 minute interview next week in my first official podcast that can be subscribed to and downloaded on iTunes (OK so I am a bit slow). During this interview Stephen talked about dozens of different mobile applications they use, but one in particular caught my attention. It allows hospitals to better care for their patients during the night when there are fewer staff on duty.

When there is better communications, better visibility, more knowledge about resource locations and better access to information, then you are in the best situation to efficiently support the needs of your customers/patients.

The military is also finding this to be true. Using a Network Centric Operational strategy, they can put the right people and right assets in the right place at the right time. This results in a workforce multiplier that maximizes the effectiveness of your team and limited resources. In both cases, enterprise mobility plays a key role.

Stay tuned for the full interview with Stephen Chilton here next week.

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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.

Mobile Expert Podcast Series: Inland Group's John Bedlek, Part 2

This is Part 2 of this interview with Inland Group's John Bedlek on enterprise mobility and implementations. You can read Part 1 here. John is with the Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc., which is one of the nation's largest commercial real estate and finance groups. They are headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, and employ more than 1,600 people nationwide. With $25.1 billion of assets in 47 states and more than 126.1 million square feet of commercial real estate in our various portfolios.

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

The Real-Time Mobile Enterprise: The Benefits of Rapid, Easy Access
Redstone Arsenal’s (DOD/Chugach) 3 Maintenance Challenges Solved by Mobile
The Future of Enterprise Mobility

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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.

Mobility News Weekly - Week of April 25, 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.

Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Money News Weekly
Also read Mobile Retailing News Weekly
Also read M2M News Monthly

Apple reported quarterly net profits of $5.99 billion, nearly double what it made a year ago. Revenue was $24.67 billion, a rise of 83 percent. Apple sold 18.65 million iPhones, a rise of 113 percent. However, iPad sales were 4.69 million, below analysts' expectations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/business-13152294

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Global tablet revenues will exceed $49 billion worldwide by 2015, with North America, Asia-Pacific and Western Europe leading the way as the most valuable regions for tablet vendors, according to Strategy Analytics.

http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/2011/04/19/global-tablet-revenues-to-surpass-49b-by-2015

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Apple has denied that iPhones store a record of their users' movements for up to a year and blamed privacy concerns partly on a misunderstanding.

http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16026/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=wytxl1es

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According to a recent survey of U.S. physicians, 61 percent intend to own an iPhone by the end of 2011. This is up from 39 percent at the beginning of the year and compares with the iPhone's 24.7 percent adoption among general smartphone users in the U.S.

Mobile Expert Podcast Series: Inland Group's John Bedlek, Part 1

I had the good fortune to interview John Bedlek this week about his company's enterprise mobility projects, and their cloud based implementation of the Webalo mobility solution. John is with the Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc., which is one of the nation's largest commercial real estate and finance groups. They are headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, and employ more than 1,600 people nationwide. With $25.1 billion of assets in 47 states and more than 126.1 million square feet of commercial real estate in our various portfolios.

The Inland Group's enterprise mobility solutions involve JD Edwards as the ERP, customized Microsoft based Business Intelliengence solutions and Webalo on Blackberrys and iPads.

You can listen to Part 2 here.

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

Redstone Arsenal’s (DOD/Chugach) 3 Maintenance Challenges Solved by Mobile
The Real-Time Mobile Enterprise: The Benefits of Rapid, Easy Access
The Future of Enterprise Mobility

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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.

Mobile Money News Weekly - Week of April 25, 2011

The Mobile Money 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 Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Retailing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Monthly

In 2016 the value of transactions made using Near Field Communication (NFC) services in North America will reach nearly $47 billion.

http://www.internetretailer.com/2011/04/21/north-america-will-be-top-nfc-market-five-years

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Research shows the number of annual mobile payment transactions will increase to 45 billion in 2015.

http://www.mobile-financial.com/node/14111/Mobile-Payment-Transactions-to-Reach-45-Billion-in-2015

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It has been forecasted that by 2015 over half a billion people worldwide will be using their smartphone as a ticket on their daily commute.

http://www.unthinkable.biz/home/article/2467/half-a-billion-commuters-to-use-mobile-ticketing-by-2015

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Mobile payments in North America experienced a substantial increase in adoption in 2010 with conversion rates doubling within one year.

The Mobile Retailing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile retailing applications and mobile marketing applications that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Money News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Monthly

Advertising on mobile devices in China will more than double to $1.16 billion in the next three years, growing faster than the U.S. market.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-19/china-s-mobile-ads-will-top-1-billion-in-2014-emarketer-says.html

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AT&T is creating a program that will allow developers to run location-based ads in their smartphones. This will allow AT&T to compete with Google in the location-based advertising market.

http://blogs.forbes.com/elizabethwoyke/2011/04/19/att-preparing-in-app-local-ads-to-compete-with-google-admob/

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Visa is working with Gap to deliver real time discounts and promotions to opt-in consumers via SMS.

http://www.intomobile.com/2011/04/22/visa-delivers-realtime-discounts-mobile-consumers-they-shop/

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A Massachusetts company has created a smartphone app that allows customers to shop for groceries by scanning barcodes with their phone cameras.

The Military and Mobile Devices

The U.S. military is preparing to release in July 2011, a new mobile development environment called the Mobile /Handheld CE Product Developers Kit, an Android-based smartphone framework and suite of applications for tactical operations. This is part of the Joint Battle Command-Platform or JBC-P Handheld program.

The platform is intended to help mobile applications developed for the military to better integrate with the following systems:

Mapping
Blue force tracking (friendly forces)
Tactical Ground Reporting, or TIGR tactical graphics
Critical messaging (such as SPOT reports, Medevac and Mayday)

I see this as similar to what SAP is doing with the Sybase Unwired Platform and project Gateway. They are developing platforms to enable a standard way to integrate with core processes.

Lt. Col. Mark Daniels, product manager for JBC-P says, "Allowing industry to freely develop apps within a government-led software environment means the Army can leverage fresh ideas and technology while still maintaining disciplined governance." It is for the similar purpose of maintaining disciplined governance that it is necessary for SAP to define how mobile devices integrate and interact with SAP.

"We're going to allow third-party developers to actually develop capabilities that aren't stovepiped," said Daniels. That means there will be interoperability across the entire family of military systems of JBC-P, which would include the platforms, the aviation, the logistics community, the tanks, the Bradleys and the handhelds. Eliminating stovepiped applications is also a motivation of SAP's.

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

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.

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of April 25, 2011

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.

Also read Mobile Money News Weekly
Also read Mobile Retailing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Monthly

The Defense Department has chosen Android to develop a smartphone network and military apps for soldiers out in the field.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Army-Marine-Corps-Android-Phone,news-10946.html

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Modiv Media has a handheld device that allows people to scan in their purchases in grocery stores and avoid lines. They will soon release an iPhone app that allows people to shop through stores simply using their phones.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/Feeds/2011/04/wireless-e-zpass-for-your-grocery-store/

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Officials at Dallas’ Department of Intergovernmental Service are deploying asset-tracking software for managing asset data in the field and a bar code label printer for creating asset tags.

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/04/04/city-of-dallas-asset-tracking.aspx

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The USDA is ramping up efforts to track livestock with microchip implants in horses. This will allow handheld devices to scan chips planted behind the animal’s neck.

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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.

Kevin's Video Comments on Mobility at SAP's SAPPHIRE NOW 2011

In this video comment I share what I want to learn about enterprise mobility at SAP's SAPPHIRE NOW 2011, May 15-18, 2011. I hope to see you there!

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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.

Kevin's Video Comments on m-Business Trends and Mobile Marketing Numbers

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

Redstone Arsenal’s (DOD/Chugach) 3 Maintenance Challenges Solved by Mobile

*************************************************************

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.

Mobility News Weekly - Week of April 18, 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.

Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Money News Weekly
Also read Mobile Retailing News Weekly
Also read M2M News Monthly

Users of the iPad and iPhone are being tracked — by their mobile devices. Researchers have uncovered a file inside Apple’s operating software that contains detailed records of a user’s location, according to the Wall Street Journal and other media reports.

http://www.suntimes.com/business/4949980-420/iphone-and-ipad-track-where-youve-been.html

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Free smartphone apps let users compare prices at local gas stations, anticipate traffic jams and keep cars operating at peak performance. These apps will be particularly useful in the months ahead, when gas prices are expected to climb higher as summer vacations start.

http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20110420&id=13336874

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Skype has updated its Android app to include VoIP calling over 3G in the U.S. Previously, U.S. users could only place calls when connected to a Wi-Fi network. International users have been able to make calls over a cellular connection since the app was originally launched last year.

http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=14278

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Global spending on business intelligence, analytics and performance management applications jumped 13.4 percent in 2010 to $10.5 billion, according to figures released by analyst firm Gartner.

Kevin's Video Comments on Mobile Enterprise Strategies

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.

Mobile Money News Weekly - Week of April 18, 2011

The Mobile Money 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 Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Retailing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Monthly

According to Juniper Research, in just three years, one in five smartphones will carry NFC technology, some 300 million estimated handsets.

http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/04/17/20-of-smartphones-to-carry-nfc-by-2014/

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Mobile shopping has transformed the way people shop, with 50 percent of Americans using a mobile method to navigate shopping.

http://www.wirelessandmobilenews.com/2011/04/50-of-americans-mobile-shop-with-cell-phone-or-smartphone-instant-gratification-is-king-says-leo-bru.html

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Visa Europe has announced plans to invest 100 million euros per year to accommodate the growing demand for mobile payments and e-commerce.

http://www.compareandsave.com/news/visa-europe-boosts-investment-in-mobile-payments/

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Emerging global markets that lack broad access to financial services will likely represent the greatest potential for mobile payments initiatives.

The Mobile Retailing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile retailing applications and mobile marketing applications that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Money News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Monthly

U.S. ad spending should rise by 3.1 percent this year, with cable television, online video and mobile marketing leading the charge.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/18/us-media-advertising-idUSTRE73H6LX20110418

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Recently Germany has seen significant growth in both the number of companies willing to use mobile advertising and the growth of the overall mobile ad market.

http://www.gomonews.com/mobile-marketing-germany-sees-27-growth-in-advertising-companies/

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With the help of mobile phones, online retail is expected to grow by 61 percent from 2010 to 2014.

http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/89138/Online_Retail_to_Exceed_37bn_by_2014__40000_Stores_Already_Abondoned_Finds_New_Research/

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Wal-Mart is purchasing Kosmix Corp, a marketing firm that analyzes online data to personalize web content. This acquisition is another example of how Wal-Mart is entering the mobile retail industry.

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.

Also read Mobile Money News Weekly
Also read Mobile Retailing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Monthly

Netherlands Railway has purchased 10,000 rugged handhelds for new ticket control practices.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/handheld-group-wins-large-public-transportation-tender-for-rugged-pdas-119675614.html

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The rescue team that saved trapped Chilean miners in 2010 was aided by Panasonic Toughbooks throughout the rescue effort.

http://mobileenterprise.edgl.com:80/news/Rugged-Toughbooks-Aided-Chilean-Miners--Rescue72180

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The Department of Defense is continuing to introduce RFID technology into its shipment processes.

http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/8358/1/1/

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A Miami based company has created washable RFID tags to use on hotel robes and towels to better ensure they remain within the hotel and not a guest’s suitcase.

Mobile Expert Podcast: SAP's Dr. Ahmed El Adl

As we approach SAP's SAPPHIRE Now 2011, I thought it would be useful to re-post an interview that I recorded in March with SAP's Dr. Ahmed El Adl. Ahmed is now involved in SAP's global mobile enterprise services strategy.

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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.

Mobility News Weekly Podcast, April 15, 2011

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

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict