How Many Cloud Systems is Your Mobile Device Using?

I have been on a 2 week speaking tour on mobile strategies in the Asia/Pacific region.  I start each session with the video below. Before I start playing it, I ask the audience to count how many cloud-based solutions they believe the mobile device is utilizing  How many can you count?

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of November 4, 2012

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

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According to the Nielsen Company, as of June 2012, smartphones accounted for more than half of all mobile phones in the U.S., up from less than one-quarter in early 2010. By 2015, it is estimated that 500 million smartphone users will have medical apps on their devices. Read Original Content

In April 2012 there were 13,600 health apps, and by 2016 mHealth apps for patient monitoring are expected to be a $20 billion industry. As many as 90 percent of clinicians are expected to be using smartphones as clinical tools by the end of 2012. Read Original Content

The global mobile health market is expected to grow at the compounded annual growth rate of 24 percent over the next few years. Some of the key factors contributing toward this growth are the rising trend of remote patient monitoring and the emergence of a number of innovative products like smartphones. 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.

Honeywell has launched a rugged mobile phone called the Dolphin 70e Black to allow healthcare and retail workers to identify and capture data. Read Original Content

A new report from Juniper Research has valued the next-gen wearable devices market, including smart glasses, to be worth more than $1.5 billion by 2014, up from just $800 million this year. These revenues will be largely driven by consumer spending on fitness, multi-functional devices, and healthcare. Read Original Content

Mobile health company AirStrip Technologies filed a lawsuit this week against mVisum over recently issued patents for remote patient data monitoring on iPhones, iPads and other smartphones. Read Original Content

Healthcare market research Kalorama Information predicts the remote and wireless patient monitoring market will grow from $6 billion in 2011 to more than $18 billion by 2014, continuously driven by diversity of products available, number of health conditions that require monitoring, and growing demand for compact portable monitoring products. Read Original Content

The Journal of Medical Internet Research has found the availability of electronic health and mobile health services plays a major role in the delivery of public health services around the world. Read Original Content

In the latest attempt to get consumers to embrace personal health records, health insurer Aetna is making its MyActiveHealth PHR portal with the mobile iTriage app. Read Original Content

An online survey of medical students and junior doctors in the U.K. indicates widespread use of smartphones and medical related apps. According to the survey results, published n journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 79 percent of medical students and 74.8 percent of junior doctors owned a smartphone, with 56.6 percent of students and 68.4 percent of doctors owning an iPhone. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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

Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 4, 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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
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Mobile application revenues will increase from less than $1 billion in 2009 to more than $35 billion in 2017, according to a new forecast issued by research firm Strategy Analytics.  Read Original Content

In a recent report Morgan Stanley forecast worldwide smartphone shipments will reach 226.3 million units in the fourth quarter, a rise of 26 percent from the third quarter.   Read Original Content

Gartner predicts that with tablet shipments to businesses tripling by 2016, Microsoft is set to own 39 percent of the market.  Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

More than half of U.S. mobile device users now own a smartphone, according to the latest comScore MobiLens data.  Read Original Content

The biggest piece of the mobile operating system market-share pie belongs to Google's Android, which was running on 75 percent of smartphones in the third quarter, says IDC. Apple's iOS system, used in iPhones, was second with a market share of 15 percent.  Read Original Content

A recent Ernst & Young survey shows nearly half of global companies interviewed on the issue of global mobility assignments intend to increase the number of staff sent to growth markets, such as Africa and China, over the next year.  Read Original Content

IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa region will grow 1.4 percent during 2013 to reach $1.154tn, according to a report by Gartner. Analysts believe the increase in investment will mainly be driven by investment in mobile devices and software.  Read Original Content

Verizon announced on Monday it is discontinuing its Verizon Apps program on Android and BlackBerry smartphones. By March 2013 Verizon will shut down its app store on Android devices and uninstall any apps already on users devices.  Read Original Content

Juniper Networks analyzed over 1.7 million apps on the Google Play market from March 2011 to September 2012. Juniper found most app users are being tracked and put at risk for exposure.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Simon Miller

Many people missed the announcement of SAP's acquisition of a company called Right Hemisphere last year.  Right Hemisphere is now called SAP Visual Enterprise, and enables very large and complex CAD files to be animated and presented as much smaller files on mobile devices.  The power here is that these files are mobile ready and can be used in a million different ways by service technicians and others needing to better understand how an object is designed, assembled or disassembled.

In this interview Simon Miller with SAP walks us through SAP Visual Enterprise.  Put on your thinking caps and figure out how this can best be used by your enterprise or clients' enterprise.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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

SMAC News Weekly - Week of November 4, 2012

This is the first edition of our new SMAC newsletter.  I am a SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) analyst and am studying this subject daily and wanted to share the best excerpts of interesting information I come across each week.

Each of us are impacted by SMAC daily.  Which of us does not use our mobile devices?  Which of us does not access social networking solutions like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin regularly on our mobile devices?  Which of us does not utilize search engine analytics, investment portfolio analytics, maps and turn-by-turn navigation all of which use analytics and are in the cloud?  SMAC is the combination of all of these trends coming together on mobile devices.  This convergence is impacting businesses in many different ways.  We will do our best to capture these by reporting on the SMAC trends, numbers and forecasts in this weekly newsletter.

A recent study by Hypatia Research Group found that nearly 60 percent of the respondents plan to dedicate between 1 and 2.9 percent of their annual marketing budget to social analytics next year. Slightly more than half (52 percent) will invest between 3 and 4 percent of their annual marketing budget on social analytics.  Read Original Content

With an eye on moving deeper into the cloud, BMC Software has expanded its alliance with Amazon Web Services to deliver a cloud services and cloud management portfolio that will give enterprises fast and easy access to the power of the AWS cloud. Read Original Content

According to Gartner, big data is predicted to have a big impact on enterprises and the IT job market, with big data demand reaching 4.4 million jobs globally by 2014. Read Original Content

While social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies are impacting all enterprises, to fully maximize their value it is useful to consider the sum is greater than its parts. The formula is called SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud on one integrated stack, where each function enables another to maximize their effect.  Cognizant, is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Cognizant.

The Asia/Pacific Big Data technology and services market is expected to grow from US$258.5 million in 2011 to US$1.76 billion in 2016, on the back of a 46.8 percent five-year compound annual growth rate.  Read OriginalContent

The National Football League and SAP AG announced a new multiyear marketing sponsorship thatswill make SAP the Official Cloud Software Solutions, Business Software and Business Analytics Software Sponsor of the NFL.  Read OriginalContent

IDC estimates the market for big data technology and services will grow at an annual rate of nearly 40 percent to reach $16.9 billion by 2015. Read Original Content

Researchers at Xerox have designed algorithms and implemented dynamic parking systems in Los Angeles that change the way we park. Through the application of analytics to Big Data, Xerox is answering important questions about congestion, our reaction to it, and how city governments most effectively can provide services to address this and related needs. Read OriginalContent

At Teradata Partners Conference 2012 held this week near Washington D.C., Simon Zhang’s talk on “Data Sciences and Analytics Evolution @LinkedIn,” provided many useful insights for organizations wanting to expand into the space of decision making using Data Analytics built on Big Data ecosystems. Read Original Content

IBM Australia will pour millions of dollars into a new cloud computing offering for the enterprise and government sector. ReadOriginal Content

Research from the Harvard Business Review found that data analysis is growing and producing "tangible improvements”. Around 75% of the 700 asked said that they rely on data to make faster decisions and 40% said that big data analysis has improved their business. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

Read The Future of Work

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

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