Enterprise Mobility Vendor Pyxis Mobile Becomes Verivo

Pyxis Mobile becomes Verivo
I received a call early this week from Pyxis Mobile's CMO Chris Willis.  He wanted to let me know of big and exciting changes happening at Pyxis Mobile.  The most obvious is their name.  They will henceforth be known as Verivo, The Enterprise Mobility Company.  On a branding and marketing note - they have also adopted the color purple.

In addition to their new fondness for all things colored purple, they are now sitting on top of a truck load of green cash from big name investors including Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Ascent Venture Partners and Egan-Managed Capital.  A grand total of $17 million in new cash from this latest round of funding.  This latest round is intended to fund their new super sized ambitions, new offices, new global expansion (Asia and Europe) and a lot of new hiring.  If you are a mobility expert looking for new and exciting work contact them.

Verivo (formerly Pyxis Mobile) has a lot of interesting mobile technology and a very unique pricing structure based not on numbers of users, but on servers.  This can dramatically simplify pricing and allows for unlimited numbers of mobile users.  This contrasts with many mobile vendors and ERP companies that charge by the user or transaction.

Verivo did well last year as Pyxis Mobile.  They reported 220 percent increases in license bookings, and revenue run rate of 50%.  Their customer base increased by 170%.  They are now focused on scaling globally.

It will be very interesting to watch how Verivo manages their growth and expansion in 2012.

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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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Mobile Health News Weekly - Week of January 9, 2012

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to medical mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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The m-Health market earned revenues of $230 million in 2010 and is estimated to reach $392 million in 2015, according to a new report from research firm Frost & Sullivan. Read Original Content

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Mobility News Weekly - Week of January 9, 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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Pyxis Mobile, a Waltham-based provider of technology that helps businesses build and manage mobile apps, has raised $17 million in a round of venture capital and changed its name to Verivo Software.  Read Original Content

Intel announced its first smartphone customers, signaling the arrival of Intel Inside smartphones. Lenovo and Motorola will release smartphones based on Intel's upcoming Atom chips code-named Medfield, said Paul Otellini, Intel's CEO.  Read Original Content

The majority of smartphone users (7 in 10) are shopping and/or browsing for products online and will use their smartphone for practically any type of purchase as long as it's convenient according to Market Strategies International.  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 report published this week by The NPD Group shows that Apple's iOS skyrocketed to 43 percent of all smartphone sales in October and November (shortly after the launch of the iPhone 4S) from 26 percent reported by Apple in its third-quarter earnings report.  Read Original Content
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Enterprise Mobility and Institutional Memory

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Library at Alexandria
During the past year I consulted with many different utility companies around the world that all seemed to be facing the same challenge, recruiting and training a new generation of workers before their aging workforce retires.  Their biggest concerns were capturing institutional knowledge that resided only in the minds of their aging workforce, and passing it down to the next generation before it was lost forever.

The challenges faced by these utilities reminded me of the ancient Library at Alexandria (Egypt). It was the first known library of its kind with funding and a mandate to collect books from around the world for the purpose of aggregating the world's knowledge in one place.  It succeeded for a time, but during Julius Caesar's visit to Alexandria in 48 BC his forces "accidentally" burned down the library and its entire collection.

Every time I think about this disaster I cringe.  Just think about the volumes of history and knowledge that were lost in that ancient fire!

Now let's return to the challenges facing the utilities.  The knowledge they seek to collect and save, is often the unwritten knowledge.  Knowledge about the locations of assets, projects, job sites and the history behind each.  The lessons learned, experiences and knowledge about the most effective ways to accomplish various tasks.


Enterprise mobility solutions may not help solve their current problems, but it can help resolve this problem in the future.  Mobile devices and mobile apps can today be configured to automatically capture all kinds of digital data rather than just ink on paper.  It can capture date, time, location, photos, bar code, RFID, geo-tags, data from any bluetooth enabled data capture devices, audio files and videos.  All of these data capture tools are in addition to the standard mobile app data fields where data can be manually entered by the mobile worker.

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This captured digital data can be stored in data warehouses, associated with a GPS coordinate and analyzed.  This data can be associated with physical locations, and when the next generation of workers (or next year's) need archived information about a location, job, project, customer, plan, infrastructure design, etc., real-time business intelligence systems will analyze the "big data" and provide this information in seconds to mobile devices.

Collecting and utilizing institutional knowledge has never been easier.  However, it must be part of your mobile strategy and enterprise mobility plan or this opportunity to capture institutional data will be missed yet again.


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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 Marketing News Weekly - Week of January 9, 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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A new report from Juniper Research, the Mobile Coupons Whitepaper, shows that the total value of coupons redeemed via smartphones will reach $43 billion by 2016, a redemption rate of 8 percent. Read Original Content 

Merchants running mobile advertising campaigns claim that between 5 and 10 percent of their digital purchases are coming from mobile devices, according to a Mojiva executive. Read Original Content

Google is on pace to generate 2012 mobile advertising revenues in excess of $4 billion, according to a new forecast issued by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Read Original Content

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