Mobile Expert Video Series: Zenware's Jody Sedrick

I had the honor of being invited to be the keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Idaho Business League yesterday.  It is a rare time that I get to attend an event close to home.  The conference was packed, and we had a great time together discussing enterprise mobility and what it means to the businesses of Idaho.

While attending the conference, I met up with Jody Sedrick, one of the founders of Zenware.  Zenware develops cloud based mobile applications that are integrated with Quickbooks, a huge market!  This video is an interview that I did with Mr. Sedrick.




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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 23, 2012

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The cellular M2M connectivity service market grew 26.2 percent in 2011, rising from 87.7 million cumulative connections in 2010 to 110.6 million cumulative connections globally in 2011. Read Original Content

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power plans to install 17 million smart meters in customer households by March 2019 in a bid to increase efficiency. The total investment is expected to be $2.6 billion. Read Original Content

Service enablement services are set to become a driver in the M2M market and achieve a total market value of $2.2 billion worldwide by 2014, up from $350 million in 2011 according to the latest study by Beecham Research. Read Original Content

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Mobile Health News Weekly - Week of January 23, 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 mHealth 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

Market research company Juniper Research estimates that 142 million m-health apps will be downloaded globally by 2016. Read Original Content

Research firm NPD Group reports that tablets will be a fixture in many doctors' offices in 2012. Nearly 75 percent of small and midsize medical practices plan to buy tablets over the next year, according to a recent survey by the company. Read Original Content

Webalo technology eliminates the need for traditional mobile application development tools and custom programming to provide in hours, instead of weeks or months, mobile access to the specific enterprise data and functions that smartphone and tablet users rely on to do their jobs.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Webalo, www.webalo.com.

The study, Global Telemedicine Market Analysis, anticipates that the global telemedicine market is forecast to grow at a compound rate of around 19 percent per year during 2010 to 2015. The telemedicine market was worth $9.8 billion in 2010. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly - Week of January 23, 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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Nielsen says that 44.5 percent of consumers who purchased a smartphone in the last three months bought an iPhone. That number stood at 25.1 percent in the three months prior to the October launch of the iPhone 4S. Read Original Content

iTunes U provides access to lectures, course material, presentations and more from top universities. Today, iTunes U is offering over 500,000 free lectures, videos, and books from institutions across 26 countries and has reached over 700 million downloads.  Read Original Content

Apple introduced iBooks 2, a textbook platform that effectively transforms $200 textbooks into iPad apps at a much more reasonable price. Pearson, McGraw Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are responsible for 90 percent of the textbooks sold.  Read Original Content

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Apple reported record-breaking net profits for the months of October, November, and December of $13.06 billion (£8.36 billion), up 118 percebt from the same period in 2010.  Read Original Content

U.S. Post Office and Mobile Applications

I received a very interesting note in my post office box yesterday.  Seems the USPS (United States Postal Service) has a new service called "Real Mail Notification."  This service will send you a text message if you receive mail in your post office box.  According to the USPS, "Your time is valuable, and now you'll know when mail has arrived."

This is a great example of how mobile solutions can save time and money and increase productivity.  I only get mail a couple of times a week in my PO box, but I drive in nearly every day to check it.  This costs me time, money, fuel, increased vehicle maintenance and lost opportunity costs.  A simple thing like a text message notification can make a difference, especially if a company has 50,000 employees and fleets of vehicles.

When companies are pondering mobile strategies, it does not need to be an all or nothing effort.  There are dozens of very simple and relatively inexpensive ways mobile solutions can start making a big difference.

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

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility 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.