HTML5’s Future – Comments and Predictions!

I thought it would be interesting to research and collect quotes from various mobility experts on the topic of HTML5.  I hope you find this useful!

• Jason Grigsby, Vice President of Cloud Four (quoted in 2009)

“HTML5 is going to be be a big deal and it will be relevant much sooner than people think.”

“…the adoption of HTML5 will be driven by the needs of mobile, not the needs of desktop developers.”

http://www.cloudfour.com/html5-from-a-mobile-perspective/

• Yuval Brisker, CEO of TOA Technologies

“…it’s clear that the HTML5 revolution is in full swing. And those in the know are both impressed and supportive...we have embraced HTML5 in its totality in order to provide deep enhanced mobility to our customers worldwide.”

http://toatech.com/blog/innovation/html-5-continues-to-impress-toa-leads-the-way/

• David Semeria, creator of LM (a general purpose system for creating, deploying and monetizing code and content)

“I started out as a big believer in HTML 5 on mobile - and I'm still convinced that over time it will win. However, once you actually get into the nitty gritty, it's clear native apps will be around for quite some time.  It's all about processing power. “

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/08/html5-continued.html  and http://lmframework.com/page.php?id=home

• Gil Bouhnick, Director of Mobile Solutions at ClickSoftware

”2013: The war is over, most enterprise mobility solutions are now using HTML5.  With or without native extensions, by 2013 I predict that the war will be over. No one in the enterprise software industry will start a project just for iPhone, or just for Windows Phone 7. HTML5 will be a certified standard or very close to that.”

http://mobilefever.clicksoftware.com/mobilefever/bid/52121/Prediction-By-2013-Html5-Will-Rule-Enterprise-Mobility

• ABI Research Study

“By 2016 more than 2.1 billion mobile devices will have HTML5 browsers, up from just 109 million last year."

“The introduction of HTML5 features will fundamentally, dramatically change the Web, as browsers will be able to access the computer's or mobile’s capabilities, such as file read/write, etc. The web will become smarter, more personalized, and intuitive. HTML5 features will enable the web to challenge native applications in terms of rich user experiences.”

http://www.internetretailer.com/2011/07/28/html5-adoption-rise-allowing-richer-mobile-sites

http://www.abiresearch.com/research/1007312-HTML5_for_Mobile_Devices_and_Tablets

• John Marshall, CEO of AirWatch

“Upgrading AirWatch to HTML5 allows us to further ensure the user experience is more productive, meaningful and efficient.”

http://html5.tmcnet.com/topics/html5/articles/217366-airwatch-releases-industrys-first-html5-based-mdm-platform.htm

• Toni Sacconaghi, Sanford Bernstein Analyst

“Ultimately over time, a significant migration away from native apps to webapps could have meaningful repercussions for the mobile industry; users would gain portability of apps across devices, and the browser would assume an increasingly important role for users at the expense of the device’s OS.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/211890/20110911/the-biggest-threat-to-apple-could-be-html5.htm

-Moshe BenBassat, CEO/Founder of ClickSoftware

We believe that HTML5 is the key for a cross platform, device agnostic, mobile applications. ClickSoftware's enterprise mobility products for workforce management and service optimization are designed as productivity tools for both the enterprise's employees as well as its customers. Even if an enterprise can decide on a standard device for its employees (which we doubt can be implemented as people are looking to use their own personal devices for work purposes …), it certainly cannot do so for its customers. Hence the importance of being device agnostic. Our ClickMobile Professional is already being used worldwide and as time progresses we are expecting a significant growth in the HTML5 customer base.

HTML5 can do what web technologies did to enterprise desktop applications 10 years ago: it can become the standard, allowing not only multiple platforms support but also zero footprint solutions to the mobile world. We think this is great. HTML5 has the potential to become the great liberator of users, administrators and vendors, bringing in a new era of innovation and productivity.

We believe that the trend by some companies to develop their own proprietary native HTML5 "containers" is bad for the evolution of HTML5. ClickSoftware's approach is to keep the "native" code to the minimum, as we believe that the standard browsers will soon be sufficient to support all required functionality including interaction with the hardware. Some platforms already support that today. ClickSoftware will continue to build thin HTML5 based applications supporting the technology and helping it evolve.

• Rob Chandhok, President of Internet Services at Qualcomm (as told to CNET’s Roger Cheng)

“We see HTML5 and web-based mobile applications as the way it will end up.”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20104056-94/how-html5-may-become-the-standard-for-apps-inside-apps/

• Daniel Terdiman of CNET, quoting Mike McCue, founder of Flipboard

“McCue's most striking comment was that he expects a rapid transformation of mobile Web content in the next few years as a result of HTML5 and other technology being applied to tablets and mobile experiences. The upshot, he said, is that he expects the Web “will look more like print” in the next few years, but will be monetized differently.”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20104934-52/flipboard-founder-web-will-soon-look-more-like-print/

• Terrence O’Brien, Senior Blogger, Switched.com on May 11, 2010

“…it’s important to know that when you hear people talking about the phrase “HTML5”, it isn’t just some meaningless buzz word; they’re talking about the future of the internet.”

http://www.switched.com/2010/05/11/what-is-html5-and-why-should-you-care

Notes:

Microsoft is expected to demonstrate its strategy for HTML5 in Windows 8 – The Build Conference is September 13-16 in Anaheim, CA

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/09/build-2011-preview-keys-to-the.php
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/09/microsoft-build-what-we-expect-to-see.ars
http://www.buildwindows.com/





Previously published articles on HTML5

More HTML5 Apps for Your Review
HTML5 Apps
What Can HTML5 Offer Mobile Developers?
HTML5 - What I am Learning
Projections for and Demonstrations of HTML5
HTML5, Enterprise Mobility and Visual Effects
Challenges with HTML5 for Mobile Applications
More on HTML5 for Mobile Application Developers
What Can HTML5 Offer Mobile Developers?
HTML5 - What I am Learning

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Mobile Expert Podcast Series: PSION's CEO John Conoley, Part 2

This is Part 2 of an interview with PSION's CEO John Conoley (listen to Part 1).  In this segment John shares his strategies for managing a manufacturer of rugged handheld computers through challenging economic times and a rapidly changing mobile device landscape.




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Mobility News Weekly - Week of September 19, 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.

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Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

IDC is forecasting that mobile Internet users will grow by an annual compound rate of 16.6 percent through 2015, when they will pass PC and other wireline Internet users.  Read Original Content

Symbian still leads the pack in Europe, but Android blew past the iPhone to grab 22.3 percent of the market.  Just last year, Android commanded only 6.1 percent of that market.  Android's popularity has contributed to a huge growth in smartphone adoption in Europe, where the number of smartphone owners has grown by 44 percent since last year.  Read Original Content

Europe leads the overall smartphone security market in terms of absolute dollar value followed by North America, due to an increasing number of smartphone Internet users. Asia-Pacific & Japan have a smaller market in terms of revenue.  However, with increasing penetration of smartphones, the market is expected to grow with the highest CAGR of 48.58 percent from 2011 to 2016.  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/.

The global smartphone applications processor market showed 65 percent year-over-year growth in second quarter 2011, reaching $1.7 billion, according to, Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies.  Read Original Content
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Mobile Expert Podcast Series: PSION's CEO John Conoley, Part 1

I had the honor of interviewing PSION's CEO John Conoley for this podcast last week.  PSION is a manufacturer of ruggedized and industrial mobile handhelds and they have been around for over 50 years.  I wanted to learn from John his strategies for managing and transforming his company during these challenging economic times that also include a rapidly changing mobile technology ecosystem.  This is a two part podcast.  You can watch Part 2 here.





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Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of September 19, 2011

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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Spending on smartphone-based advertising in Canada will reach $82 million by the end of this year, according to a report issued by the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada.  Read Original Content

According to Millenial Media, mobile automotive display advertising increased 169 percent from 2009 to 2010.  Read Original Content

Even though mobile advertising has doubled since last year, and is now valued at $3.3 billion, mobile advertisements represent only 5 percent of total investments in online ads.  Read Original Content

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According to Jumptab, 35 percent of companies with mobile marketing budgets plan on increasing their spending in the next twelve months.  Read Original Content
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Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of September 19, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.



GTM Research forecasts that utilities in the U.S. will spend $8.25 billion between 2011 to 2015 in three major areas:  customer engagement, business services and grid operations.  That spending will allow for many of the advantages that smart grid can deliver, from more tailored pricing offerings for the average consumer to more coordinated outage response.  Read Original Content



With smartphone prices falling, IDC expects the number of smartphone sales to surpass the number of PC sales by the end of this year.  According to recent reports, in 2010 more than 270 million smartphones were sold. This is up from 174 million in 2009.  Read Original Content




A new study by marketing firm 360i has found that mobile advertising campaigns are more effective than traditional online campaigns in five categories that include brand awareness, advertising awareness, message association, brand favorability and purchase intent.  Read Original Content



Even with total online advertising on the rise, Yahoo is having trouble sustaining healthy revenue driven by advertisements.  This problem stems from people spending an increased amount of time on social sites and mobile devices that distract viewers from Yahoo sites where traditional online advertising is placed.  Read Original Content

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Flattening the Stack with Integrated App Development, MDM, and Hosted Solutions

Andre Guillemin
I want to thank my friend and mobility expert André Guillemin for writing this article and sharing it with all of us.

As the mobility needs of the enterprise continue to evolve, solutions providers are under increasing pressure to offer product suites that provide mobile device management, application development, and hosting capabilities all under one roof. Currently, solutions providers tend to specialize in one of the three, forcing most enterprise companies to purchase multiple solutions. Stacked on top of each other, an MDM, app development platform, and a hosting services package may provide the total functionality needed, but it’s not the most elegant solution.

So how are providers responding? The emerging trend among the major players in the mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) space is to start piling on the features…and fast. Antenna Software just bumped up its MDM capabilities with the release of its Volt platform, which enables companies to publish and manage HTML5 apps with many common enterprise MDM features such as remote wipe. Another example is Pyxis Mobile, which recently rolled out a hosting solution that pairs nicely with its app development platform.

With the race on to expand their capabilities, you may wonder if these companies are biting off more than they can chew. It doesn’t seem so. For starters, most of the companies in this space built their business by developing specific solutions to specific problems. Only recently have they been pressured to expand beyond their core competencies in order to supply more comprehensive solutions that address multiple components of the enterprise mobility ecosystem. Secondly, many companies are filling those gaps not by trying to reinvent the wheel but by partnering with other specialists and rolling out white labeled products. The best example is hosting, where most providers have turned to dedicated hosting services companies to add that capability to their product portfolio because it’s faster, easier, and better for the customer than trying to build it themselves.

Where does all that leave us? As always, the devil is in the details. When shopping around for middleware solutions, make sure you’re prepared with a thoroughly vetted list of requirements and use that list to check it against the capabilities of the products you’re evaluating. Know what apps you’re going to build, who you’re going to build them for, and how they’re going to be used – not just today, but have a strategy that projects out at least three years. Think about the way mobility will grow and evolve within your company. You may be focused on employee apps today but what about customers and supply chain partners? How will your entire company be using mobility in three to five years?

Being able to paint the broad picture and then hone in on the details is critical because knowing exactly which capabilities, functions, and features you require in your development and management tools will help you avoid costly mistakes down the line.

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Today's Guest Columnist: André Guillemin has over ten years of experience in health care, financial services, and mobile technology. He spent the past three years focused on cross-industry solutions for mobile enterprise application development, including line of business uses in manufacturing, life sciences and wealth management. Mr. Guillemin frequently contributes to industry publications, panels, and events, and is available for consultation on the strategic and tactical use of mobile technologies in the enterprise.

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of September 19, 2011

The Mobile Commerce 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.

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The number of global e-payments is expected to grow from 17.9 to 30.3 billion transactions between 2010 and 2013, while m-payments are expected to grow from 4.6 to 15.3 billion transactions in the same period, according to a joint report by Capgemini, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Efma.  Read Original Content

Google and Visa have partnered in an effort to push mobile payments, creating an agreement to allow Visa account holders to pay for store purchases with their smartphones.  Read Original Content

Analysts expect that PayPal will experience a sharp increase in mobile sales over the next few years to become eBay’s largest business by 2014.  Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

NCR Corporation has launched a new mobile banking platform that allows financial corporations to offer a greater amount of mobile features to customers.  Read Original Content

Access-card manufacturer HID Global has announced it is teaming up with Research in Motion Ltd. to include NFC technology in new models of its BlackBerry smartphones.  Read Original Content

According to a March 2010 report from Generator Research, the number of mobile payment users will grow 600 percent by 2014 to 490 million users.  Read Original Content

The number of NFC-enabled mobile handset shipments is projected to increase from 40 million in 2011 to over 700 million in 2016, according to Don Tait with IMS Research.  Read Original Content

Research firm IEMR expects a 30-fold increase in mobile payment transactions from 2010 figures of $31.5 billion.  The Asia Pacific market leads with $254 billion in 2015 with the United States a close second at $245 billion.  Read Original Content

Mobile payments will represent 15 percent of all card transactions by 2013, and will overcome card volumes within 10 years if growth continues at the same rate, according to the World Payments Report 2011.  Read Original Content

PayPal has announced a new mobile payment program that does not use NFC technology but instead uses scanning terminals and barcodes.  Read Original Content

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The Benefit of Custom Mobile Applications

There are at least two kinds of mobile applications for large enterprises to consider:
  1. Me-too-apps
  2. Only-me-apps
Me-too-apps often provide efficiency gains and remove the friction from various workflows and processes.  These apps are often simple, easy to implement and off-the-shelf.  Soon all of your competitors will also recognize the value of these mobile apps and will implement.

Only-me-apps are customized applications that often take advantage of your unique processes, unique combinations of back office systems and unique products and services.  Many companies have dozens of different business solutions, ERPs, bespoke database applications, BI systems and other software applications in their inventory.  There can literally be hundreds and even thousands of different combinations of these systems that can be connected together to support mobile workers and applications, and to provide unique competitive advantages.

I have met with many very large companies that view their particular mobile application as a competitive advantage.  One large CPG company that I met with this summer said they have a mobile application that is over 10 years old, but it still provides them with a competitive advantage in their industry.

Mobile applications and mobile strategies that will truly transform a company are likely going to involve the following:
  1. Very smart people
  2. Very smart strategies
  3. Mobile technologies that support points 1 and 2.
In order to effectively support a customized mobile application environment that may have dozens of mobile solutions, you will require specific kinds of platforms, toolkits and mobile security systems to set it up and to manage it.

I will be speaking this week on the subject of "Delivering Competitive Advantages Through Custom Mobile Apps" in this upcoming webinar.


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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of September 19, 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 Commerce News Weekly
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Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

The RFID market is forecast by IDTechEx to reach $5.84 billion in 2011 and livestock tracking is expected to become the largest segment, reaching nearly $6.5 billion by 2017.  Read Original Content

Lowes, the home improvement company will be equipping its employees with 42,000 iPhones that they can use in stores to check product information, access the company website or watch how-to videos, according to a report by Bloomberg.  Read Original Content

Grupo Vidrala, a Spanish glass bottle manufacturer is using RFID tracking tags on shipping pallets to help increase efficiency throughout the warehouse.  Read Original Content

Since 1995, Syclo has enabled hundreds of companies in 37 countries and industries supercharge their businesses with mobility.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Syclo http://www.syclo.com/

Trimble has released its Field Inspector version 2.1, which is compatible with a variety of its handheld computers and is designed for automating utility infrastructure and smart grid asset maintenance and inspection.  Read Original Content
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Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Dr. Ahmed El Adl

This is the ninth interview that I recorded at the SAP TechEd 2011 conference on enterprise mobility.  Dr. Ahmed El Adl gives us his perspective on how enterprise mobility has evolved and changed over the past year and where SAP is looking to go now with mobility.

The links for all nine of the recorded video interviews are listed below for your quick reference.



Mobile Expert Video Series: Centigon's Ryan Goodman



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M2M News Weekly - Week of September 12, 2011

Welcome to M2M News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to M2M (machine to machine) and embedded mobile devices.  I aggregate the information, include the original links and add a synopsis of each article.  I also search for the latest market numbers such as market size, growth and trends in and around the M2M market.

Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
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Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

ABI Research estimates that the number of cellular M2M connections will triple by 2014 to 75 million.  Read Original Content

Canada's M2M market could reach $408 million in the next four years, but existing vendor and support channels are not mature enough to meet current M2M demands, according to a report from IDC Canada.  Read Original Content

The Utilities Telecom Council released a report this week that said spending on telecommunications equipment and services related to utilities will hit $3.2 billion this year, a 21 percent increase from 2009.  Read Original Content

According to IDC the total number of smart meter shipments increased 4.1 percent during the second quarter of 2011 as compared to the first quarter.  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/.

SAP announced this week that they have developed a smart meter related application that helps utility companies analyze data gathered through smart technology.  Read Original Content
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Mobile Expert Video Series: Sybase's Jagdish Bansiya

I want to highlight a couple of interviews that I have recorded this week at SAP TechEd 2011 that focus on mobile strategy.  Jagdish Bansiya PHD is the CTO of Enterprise Mobility at Sybase, and in this interview he shares his thoughts on what it means for mobile applications to be truly "transformational."  I will publish another interview later today that I recorded with Ahmed El Adl PHD that also focuses on mobile strategies, so watch for this one as well.

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Mobility News Weekly - Week of September 12, 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 Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

Internet radio company Pandora’s usage on mobile and other connected devices is 70 percent of its total usage.  Mobile revenue in the second quarter of 2011 was about half of all revenue the company generated.  The company reported revenue of $67 million, up 117 percent from a year ago, beating Wall Street expectations of $60.3 million.  Read Original Content

Microsoft is spending millions of dollars in training sales staff from phone companies worldwide as it tries to grow its so far unpopular mobile operating system.  Achim Berg, Microsoft's head of Windows Phone marketing, told Bloomberg that forecasts by analysts that the operating system will have a 20 percent market share by 2015 are conservative.  Read Original Content

Securing mobile devices is one of the biggest challenges facing IT security professionals as cyber criminals turn their attention to this platform, according to James Lyne, director of technology strategy at security firm Sophos.  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/.

SAP and Sybase have announced the latest release of Sybase Unwired Platform. The 2.1 release will enrich the mobile application development experience through significant enhancements to its SDK and new developer resources for the more than 2 million members of SAP Community Network.  Read Original Content
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Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Matthew Schwartz

I had the good fortune to meet and corner SAP's VP of Enterprise Mobility for North America, Matthew Schwartz at SAP TechED today.  In this video interview Matt shares his thoughts and insights on enterprise mobility.




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Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Puneet Suppal

SAP's PCN mobility enthusiast Puneet Suppal shares his insights on developments in enterprise mobility at SAP TechEd 2011.








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Mobile Expert Video Series: Centigon's Ryan Goodman

This is an interview with Centigon's CEO Ryan Goodman.  They are using Google Maps and business intelligence to offer some interesting mobile solutions for SAP users.

Don't forget to take the enterprise mobility survey at the top of this page!  It will help us all better understand today's market.





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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of September 12, 2011

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.

Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

Adsmobi projects the European mobile advertising market to be valued at $1.03 billion by 2014.  Read Original Content

Research firm Ovum has indicated that in the Asia Pacific region the expected mobile apps market revenue will reach $958 million by 2015.  Read Original Content

Advertisers in the U.S. alone have been forecasted to spend over $1.1 billion while investing in mobile marketing by the end of 2011, which represents a 48 percent year-on-year increase, according to estimates from eMarketer.  Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

Sony Music has launched a QR Code advertising campaign in 100 London black cabs to promote new music from 11 popular artists under the Columbia record label.  Read Original Content
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Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Nick Brown

I have interviewed Nick Brown, SAP's Senior VP of Mobile Strategies, several times over the past couple of years and it has always been a pleasure.  Nick is a straight shooter (crazy American phrase for honest and open).  He shares technical details in clear and understandable language, and is open about areas of strengths and weaknesses in his products.  All of these qualities equal credibility.  Thanks Nick!

In this interview we discuss the new Sybase Unwired Platform version 2.1, and its hybrid web container.





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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's CIO Oliver Bussman

I have had the honor of spending time with SAP's CIO Oliver Bussman this week.  I first moderated a panel on enterprise mobility that he participated on, attended a Q&A session with him, and then cornered him for an interview in the garden at the Venetian last evening.  In this video interview we discuss his experiences with deploying over 9,000 iPads at SAP.








Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Cognizant's Jeff Wallace
Mobile Expert Video Series: Sybase's Bryan Whitmarsh
Enterprise Mobility - A Tank Half Full
Mobile Expert Podcast Series: PSION's Mike Petersen, Part 1
Kevin Benedict’s Video Comments:  Mobility without Tactics is Wasted
Mobile Expert Podcast Series: Toa Technologies' Yuval Brisker, Part 1
More Mobile HTML5 Apps for Your Review

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Kevin Benedict Speaking Tour, San Paulo, Brazil - December 4-9, 2011

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The Business Benefits of Mobile Adoption with SAP Systems
ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
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3 Critical Considerations for Embracing Mobile CRM
Healthrageous Mobility Case Study
The Latest m-Business Trends and How the Onslaught of Mobile Devices Affects Development Strategies
The Real-Time Mobile Enterprise:  The Benefits of Rapid, Easy Access
Syclo and SAP Deliver Mobile Apps on Sybase Unwired Platform 

Ruggedized and Industrial Mobile Device Articles

Consumer Smartphones or Industrial Smartphones?


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Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of September 12, 2011

The Mobile Commerce 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 Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

Global mobile payment transactions could exceed $945 billion in 2015, according to IE Market Research’s Global Mobile Payment Market Forecast 2011-2015.  Read Original Content

VeriFone Systems Inc. posted better than expected quarterly results and raised its full year outlook as it finds more customers for mobile payment technologies.  Read Original Content

Payments and banking transactions through mobile phones in India are expected to reach $350 billion by 2015, according to The Boston Consulting Group.  Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

Lowe’s, a leading home improvement company, is enhancing its website and equipping store employees with iPhones as the second-largest U.S. home-improvement retailer seeks to catch up to Home Depot and boost sales from its existing locations.  Read Original Content
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Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of September 12, 2011

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.


Marketers are discovering that mobile ads are an affective medium to promote products.  Marketing firm 360i has found through a survey that mobile ads are more affective than traditional online advertising campaigns. Global mobile advertising revenue, according to Gartner Research, is forecast to hit $3.3 billion in 2011, a huge increase from the $1.6 billion in revenue in 2010.  Read Original Content



New data from Millenial Media shows that more smartphone owners access the Internet using a W-Fi connection than using their service providers such as AT&T or Verizon.  Read Original Content




The analyst firm Flurry has created a graphic illustrating the rapid growth rate of mobile app value from 2009 and projected through November 2012.  According to the projections, money spent on advertising through mobile apps will dwarf the amount spent on online display ads.  Read Original Content



A study by Yahoo and Ipsos has listed the top seven cases where smartphone users recall and engage with an advertisement on their device.  Sixty-five percent of respondents admit that they remember viewing an ad while shopping on their smartphone, with half of those respondents clicking on the ad and following the advertisement to the site of origin.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, 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 Expert Video Series: Cognizant's Jeff Wallace

Cognizant's AVP of Mobility, Jeff Wallace shares his insights into the current state of enterprise mobility at SAP's TechEd conference in Las Vegas.





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Mobile Expert Video Series: Sybase's Bryan Whitmarsh

I am attending SAP's TechEd conference this week where I will be interviewing experts in mobility.  Last night I had the good fortune to run into Sybase's Product Manager for SUP (Sybase Unwired Platform), Bryan Whitmarsh.




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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of September 12, 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 Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly
Also read Mobility ROI Weekly

Greetings!  This is Kevin Benedict offering a free report on enterprise mobility for everyone that completes my new enterprise mobility survey.  At the end of the survey is a place for you to leave your name and email address.  I will send the results of this survey to all participants.  I believe we can all learn some very interesting and perhaps unexpected information from this survey that will help us plan and develop good strategies.  Take the Survey Here!

According to a new ABI report, the health care Wi-Fi market will grow into a $1.3 billion industry in the next five years as more consumer devices connect to Wi-Fi networks.  Read Original Content

Beginning in July 2012, New Zealand will require beef ranchers to track cattle using RFID tags.  Read Original Content

Trucking companies can now install RFID tags on vehicles in order to pay for fuel at Love’s Travel Stops locations.  This will prevent fuel fraud and speed up the fueling process.  Read Original Content

FieldSaver has released its Android app v3.0 that provides paramedics a mobile interface allowing them to successfully collect, document and electronically share legally required emergency medical services documentation with hospitals, public safety, public health and other first responder agencies.  Read Original Content

Since 1995, Syclo has enabled hundreds of companies in 37 countries and industries supercharge their businesses with mobility.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Syclo. http://www.syclo.com/.
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Mobile Expert Podcast Series: PSION's Mike Petersen, Part 2

This is Part 2 of my interview with PSION's Mike Petersen on what makes rugged mobile devices different from consumer grade mobile devices.  Mike reveals some surprising ROIs and TOC (total cost of ownership) considerations. Listen to Part 1 here.

When you are done listening to this podcast, I hope you will take a moment to complete the enterprise mobility survey.  All participants will receive the survey results.





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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
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