Enterprise Mobility Asia – Week of October 21, 2012

Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

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The total amount spent on mobile commerce in Malaysia grew from RM101 million in 2010 to RM467 million, a 370 percent jump in one year, and the market is forecast to reach RM3.43 billion by 2015.  Read Original Content

The National Australia Bank plans to provide its network of merchants with iPad and iPhone “PAYware sleeves” capable of transforming them into POS devices.  Read Original Content

TechSci Research predicts that the barcode scanners and printers market in India will generate $14 million in revenue by 2017.  Read Original Content

Antenna Software provides a complete cloud-based enterprise mobility suite that enables both IT pros and business executives alike to create and manage mobile apps, websites and content across the entire business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Antenna Software.

Gartner’s Symposium/It xpo, a gathering of CIO’s and IT executives discussing technology initiatives including mobile, social, cloud and big data, will be held November 12-15, 2012 on the Gold Coast, Australia. For symposium information, go to http://www.gartner.com/technology/symposium/gold-coast/.   Read Original Content

TMS has launched a mobile campaign in Indonesia in which markets will feature “interactive touch points” inviting customers to participate in a survey and competition using their mobile device to win prizes.  Read Original Content

A survey from Tourism New Zealand revealed that 92 percent of tourists used a laptop or mobile device while visiting the country.  Read Original Content

More Asian businesses are looking into improving their mobile sites and apps as mobile penetration is growing rapidly and more people are accessing the Web via mobile devices.  Read Original Content

Citibank has topped 1 million mobile customers in the Asia Pacific region four years after launching its Citi Mobile app.  Read Original Content

Data from The Australian Bureau of Statistics indicates there are currently 16.2 million mobile phones in Australia and the amount of data downloaded through phones has increased by a third from the December quarter 2011 to the June quarter 2012.  Read Original Content

Japan’s NTT Docomo has announced it will begin operating a mobile gaming platform in November of this year and will offer a mobile shopping service in December.  ReadOriginal Content

According to Gartner, the number of mobile handsets sold in India will reach 251 million units in 2013.  Read Original Content

A new report from IDC on BYOD in Australia reveals that 49 percent of IT managers responding to the survey indicated an increase in spending on mobility in 2012.  ReadOriginal Content

SINO Market Research predicts that around 30 million mobile phones will be sold online in China this year, up 68 percent from 2011.  Read Original Content

Singapore’s Jurong Point Shopping Centre has launched their own mobile app which will soon be the first retail app in Singapore to incorporate Apple’s Passbook technology.  Read Original Content

Statistics New Zealand revealed that over 50 percent of New Zealanders now access the Internet via a mobile phone, and mobile phone subscriptions increased by a third to more than 2.5 million over the past year.  Read Original Content

In a recent report, the International Telecommunication Union indicated China had 1 billion cell phone subscriptions at the end of 2011 and India is expected to reach 1 billion in 2012.  Read Original Content

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Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo has partnered with MasterCard to enable users of DoCoMo’s iD mobile payment system to take advantage of MasterCard’s PayPass solution outside of Japan.  Read Original Content

The governments of India and Pakistan are involved in talks to enable mobile users to roam between the two countries.  Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Jens Koerner
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP CIO Oliver Bussman
Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 15, 2012
Mobile Expert Video Series: Bryan Whitmarsh
Mobile Expert Video Series: Ingo Piroth
Mobile Expert Video Series: Mico Yuk

Whitepapers of Note

The A to Z of Mobile Workforce Scheduling Optimization
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

What I Learned at SAP TechEd 2012 about Enterprise Mobility

I learned a lot at SAP's TechEd 2012 this week.  Here are some of my impressions and notes.  SAP, if I have any of this wrong please correct me!

• SAP hired a new M2M leader that reports into Sanjay Poonen.  
• SAP's Vishal Sikka and Sanjay Poonen both spoke about the "Internet of Things", also known as M2M (machine to machine) communications.  This is a huge emerging technology trend.
• Vishal Sikka hinted at the potential of using Hana on Ariba.  Very interesting!
• Learned SAP's SuccessFactor has a mobile application
• SAP Mobility Platform will be the brand for all mobile technologies.  The mobile middleware you ultimately choose under the SMP brand could be NetWeaver Gateway, Syclo's Agentry or SUP.  It will all be there and serve different purposes in the near term.  Long term there will be more convergence.
• 50% of Syclo's customers were IBM Maximo customers (random I know)
• Phase one of the Syclo and SMP (SAP Mobility Platform) convergence will happen Q1 and a roadmap has been defined for the rest
• SAP is now fully embracing partner solutions for developing mobile apps (think ClickSoftware, Sencha, Appcelerator, Cordova, etc.)
• SAP Box, a DropBox like solution, is being developed by SAP and secured with Afaria, is coming soon.
• SuccessFactor's social networking platform JAM, will be the social and collaboration platform of choice from SAP - bye, bye StreamWorks.
• SAP now has 18,000 iPads, 16,000 iPhones, 2,000 Androids and 4,000 BYOD supported mobile devices.  These are all secured and managed through Afaria.  Oliver Bussman and his team truly speaks from experience on issues related to mobility.
• SAP's BYOD policy is bettered called BYODALAIIOOTT - Bring your own device as long as it is one of these ten...
• Sanjay Poonen referenced that Afaria could scale up to support half a billion devices...
• SAP's internal support of Android is still limited to Samsung devices.  SAP and Samsung have a special technology partnership that enables SAP to better secure Samsung Android devices
• SAP is talking a lot about Afaria and SAP Mobility Platform in the cloud
• Sanjay Poonen mentioned a home design app, that allows users to design their own home by choosing colors and other decorations.  The app data is aggregated and analyzed to predict the popularity of various items and colors by the retail stores and manufacturers.  Very cool example of integrating social networking tools with sales forecasting and SCM. 
• SAP has set-up internal "Apple Genius-like" bars in their offices to help employees with mobile devices and apps.
• I heard a lot of excitement from many SAP people, and other CIOs about Windows 8.  There is a lot of pent-up demand and hope.
• Developing a mobile strategy is still the big bottle neck at companies
• Afaria was referenced as extending out to secure M2M devices
• With new UI designs from Microsoft (think Metro) developers may want to design the same app with completely different UIs instead of just simple OS changes...hummm more work and components to manage
• Heard a CIO say a rule of thumb is that each new mobile apps will require 1 FTE to maintain it
• Heard of an effort inside SAP to connect their GRC (governance and risk?) to Afaria so mobile policies could be automatically enforced

Did you miss SAP TechEd 2012?  I have many video interviews of mobility expert that I met there!  More will be published next week.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Expert Video Series: Jens Koerner

In this segment of Mobile Expert Video Series, I had the opportunity to interview SAP's Product Manager for the Mobility Platform, Jens Koerner.  We discuss mobile middleware both on-premise and in the cloud.  We also talk about Afaria (MDM) in the cloud.  If your head is in the clouds, this is the episode for you.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mSvFFRpCXs

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

Read The Future of Work

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the Strategic Enterprise Mobility Linkedin Group

Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP CIO Oliver Bussman

I had the honor of spending time with SAP's Global CIO, Oliver Bussman and interviewing him this week.  In this segment of Mobile Expert Video Series, we discuss SAP's internal use of social, mobile, analytics and cloud solutions.

Video Links http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfSEd5V2Oqs

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

Read The Future of Work

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the Strategic Enterprise Mobility Linkedin Group

Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 15, 2012

The New York Times has rolled out an HTML5 web app for Apple’s iPad, an addition to the native apps already available.  Read Original Content

The preview of Oracle’s NetBeans Integrated Development Environment 7.3 features new advanced HTML5, JavaScript and CSS development capabilities and is now available for download.  Read Original Content

Microsoft developed TypeScript as a way to help JavaScript scale to larger, more media rich HTML5 projects and they’ve announced that TypeScript is now available for developers and programmers to download a preview, test it in the “TypeScript online playground”, or obtain the source code.  Read Original Content

Google’s Chrome 23 beta adds track support for HTML5 video that enables developers to add elements such as subtitles, captions, chapters, descriptions and metadata to videos.  Read Original Content

Mobile app performance management platform Crittercism, has launched a new mobile app crash reporting service for HTML5 allowing developers to view errors and issues for HTML5, mobile Web and hybrid apps.  Read Original Content

According to Facebook developer advocate Simon Cross, those advocating HTML5 on mobile devices must ”step up their efforts and solve issues with performance and monetization in order for the technology to reach its true potential”.  Read Original Content

A free new PDF editor from Docudesk enables users to edit, share and fax PDF documents from within the browser and can be used from a number of devices including Apple’s iPad and iPhone.  Read Original Content

Sports Illustrated has re-launched its mobile website which is now HTML5-based.  Read OriginalContent

Web designer Tim G. Thomas describes the business case for “Building a Non-Native Mobile HTML5 App”.  Parts 2 - Choosing a Technology Stack and 3 - Hooking Things Together are also available.  Read OriginalContent

As a tribute to Steve Jobs, a developer created a virtual classic iPod using HTML5 and CSS3.  ReadOriginal Content

French developers have created cHTeMeLe, a board game about writing HTML5 code.  Read OriginalContent

Kris Ostrowka, a business development associate at StepLeader, outlines “What You Need to Know about HTML5 vs. Native Apps” in this article in Mobile Marketer.  ReadOriginal Content

The W3C partnered with tech firms including Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, and Microsoft to create a website to serve as a resource for developers seeking information on HTML5, CSS3, and other open-web standards.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

Read The Future of Work

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the Strategic Enterprise Mobility Linkedin Group

Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.