Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 11, 2012

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.

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A new program in Alberta, Canada uses GPS to enable at-risk women to connect to a 911 dispatcher while tracking their location.  Read Original Content

Idaho State University and other universities and cities around the world will celebrate World GIS day on November 14, 2012.  "World GIS Day offers everyone a chance to learn more about the fascinating field of Geographic Information Systems and how GIS is part of our everyday lives today.”  Read Original Content

Fast-casual restaurants are using RFID technology to improve service times and track the time for orders from payment to receipt of the order by the customer.  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.

Congress in India is utilizing RFID technology to improve communication among party members.  Read Original Content

Federal emergency responders arriving in unfamiliar hurricane-ravaged regions are aided by a high-tech mobile command center, the Defense Department’s Domestic Mobile Integrated Geospatial-Intelligence System.  Read Original Content

Trimble has unveiled a new rugged tablet, the Yuma 2, designed for outdoor use in construction, transportation, utility work, and other fieldwork areas requiring rugged devices.  Read Original Content

Electric vehicle drivers can now use their Apple iPhone or Android device to access free or paid charging stations for their vehicles.  Read Original Content

High-tech winter sports enthusiasts now have three GPS goggle models available from Zeal Optics.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of November 11, 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 use of mobile phones in Bangladesh is rising rapidly, with 100 million users out of a population of 153 million, but only 25 percent of cell phone users have access to the Internet.  Read Original Content

China Mobile has announced it will introduce commercial NFC services in 12 Chinese provinces in February 2013 and plans to expand to fifty cities later in the year. The company expects to sell 10 million NFC phones in 2013.  Read Original Content

South Asia’s MoMagic Technologies and Symphony Mobiles of Bangladesh have formed a partnership, MoMagic Bangladesh, to target India’s growing value added services market.  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.

Microsoft India recently hosted a special event in New Delhi to offer a preview of the upcoming Windows 8 phones, indicating the handsets on display, the Nokia Lumia 820 and 920, Samsung Ativ S and HTC’s WP8S and WP8X, should reach India’s retail market within the next few weeks.  Read Original Content

Luxury mobile phone maker Vertu has opened its first store in India in New Delhi and has plans to expand to other cities including Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.  Read Original Content

Bharti Airtel has opened a “network experience center” to monitor its services across India and South Asia from a single location.  Read Original Content

Australia’s Telstra has launched the Telstra 4G Tablet, designed to cater to “tech-minded Australian families”.  Read Original Content

According to IDC, smartphone adoption in New Zealand has risen dramatically, from 13 percent to 44 percent of the country’s households in one year.  The study found the most popular activities on smartphones were Internet banking and emailing.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: Mustafa Bensan

I traveled with Mustafa Bensan from Aukland, New Zealand to Melbourne, Australia over the past few weeks.  He was the chair person of many of the sessions, and he is also a mobile BI expert.  I attended his presentations and had the honor of interviewing him in this segment of the Mobile Expert Video Series.

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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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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.

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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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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

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Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of November 4, 2012

Google has rebuilt its Whatbrowser.org site with HTML5.  The site is now available on mobile devices.  Read Original Content

Playtech has launched its open framework Mobile Hub, built with HTML5 and compatible with Web browsers, native applications and across all HTML5 ready devices.  Read Original Content

Barneys New York has unveiled a new HTML5-based mobile site designed to make the shopping experience seamless for users.  Read Original Content

According to Infosecurity magazine, web scanners are not keeping up with newer technologies such as HTML5, and manual testing has been the only way to detect vulnerabilities.  Read Original Content

AppMobi has upgraded its HTML5 SDK, adding support for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, enabling developers to produce Java and HTML5 apps both from the same code.  Read Original Content

According to Gartner analysts, HTML5 will be a key mobile technology in the future, but “fragmentation and immaturity will remain challenges through 2015, so HTML5 is a very long way from being a panacea for cross platform development. Some of HTML5's challenges can be reduced by using JavaScript frameworks which can hide some platform and browser dependencies.”  Read Original Content

Software development and hosting company EyePartner has updated their Web design and is showcasing advancements in technology with a new HTML5 mobile module and channel manager.  Read Original Content

Almost 75 percent of end users in North America are using browsers that support HTML5, and the number of HTML5-compatible browsers grew from 57 percent to 75 percent between the second quarter of 2011 and the second quarter of 2012.  Read Original Content

Because HTML5 “works for cross-platform environments, is easier to manage compared to Flash, is a first-class citizen on the browser, and is attractive to developers”, online diagram and flowchart software Gliffy is abandoning Flash and moving to an all-HTML5 platform and will soon take HTML5 to the tablet market.  Read Original Content

Software development firm Chetu utilizes HTML5 to provide a smoother experience on mobile devices while cutting down per platform costs for each mobile platform.  The initial prototypes “show superior and near native experience for eLearning content using HTML5”.  Read Original Content

Mobile radio service Stitcher has launched an HTML5-based Web app, which enables playback on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari.  Read Original Content

Only 75,000 mobile Web or HTML5-based apps exist today, a small portion of the 1.25 million native apps in the current mobile market.  Appcelerator’s white paper explores “Native vs. HTML5 Mobile App Development: Which Option is Best?”  Read Original Content

Winter sports online retailer Snow Republic has launched an HTML5 Web app to provide users with a native app-like experience with cross browser compatibility.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of November 4, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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During last week's Q4 2012 earnings call, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said the Starbucks Mobile Payment app is now being used more than 2 million times per week on average. Since its launch in January 2011, customers have used the app to make more than 100 million mobile transactions. Read Original Content

Internet advertising revenues climbed to an all-time high during the first six months of 2012, galvanized by dramatic growth in mobile ad spending, according to a new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read Original Content

Business and enterprise apps are quickly becoming the fastest growing app category in application storefronts, with an overwhelming 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies planning to implement their own apps by then end of 2012, reported enterprise software provider SAP. Read Original Content

Kony is the industry’s leading mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps, the KonyOne™ Platform and a comprehensive mobile application management solution, which give companies the confidence and control to quickly build apps once and deploy everywhere -- across all mobile devices and operating systems. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Kony.

The use of smartphones and tablets to carry out safe shopping online is already growing significantly in the UK, but between 2012 and 2015, it is predicted the market will expand by at least 300 percent globally, with western countries making the biggest impact. Read Original Content

Google Wallet, the mobile payment system originally released in May 2011, can now be used to make purchases directly from a smartphone. Read Original Content

Online giant eBay announced third quarter profits edged up two percent from a year ago to $597 million, driven by gains in mobile shopping and payments. Read Original Content

According to the most recent data released by Facebook, during the third quarter, 14 percent of the ad revenue it generated came from mobile commerce. Read Original Content

Vodafone has partnered with mobile commerce company CorFire to put its mobile wallet product CorPay on smartphones to allow users to pay for goods and services via their devices with a downloadable app. Read Original Content

M2M News Weekly – Week of Week of November 4, 2012

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.

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The M2M network security market is on a set course for growth of $752 million by 2017, according to a report by ABI Research. Read Original Content

The market value for Intelligent Transport Systems deployed in public transport operations in Europe was worth nearly $1 billion in 2011. Growing at a compound annual growth rate of 15 percent, this number is expected to reach $1.9 billion by 2016. Read Original Content

Numerex has announced it has added 121,000 M2M subscriptions during Q3, representing 31 percent overall growth. Read Original Content

ILS Technology provides ready-to-use cloud based platforms to implement and manage M2M (machine to machine) and embedded wireless devices that connect to SAP.  ILS Technology simplifies deployments and offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data and to ensure regulatory compliance. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology.

According to Northern Sky Research, the global satellite SCADA/M2M market is expected to reach $2.7 billion in 2021, growing more than two-fold from today’s $1.2 billion annual revenue base. Read Original Content

The wireless industry could see a $1.2 trillion revenue opportunity out of the connected devices market by 2020. Within this market, M2M will be instrumental in enabling communications across wider "horizontal" platforms in several key sectors. Read Original Content

The market for M2M and embedded devices is set to quadruple over the next five years according to a new report from Juniper Research. It will rise from just over 100 million units currently to reach 400 million units by Q1 2018. Read Original Content

Two types of software platforms, Application Development Platforms and Connected Device Platforms that underpin the development of the M2M market are forecast to generate $3.85 billion in revenues by 2017, according to a new report from ABI Research. 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.

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Smart Grid Communications market will grow at a compound annual rate of 13.37 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increase in smart grid construction. Read Original Content

The market for smart grid technologies that help integrate renewable energy sources will grow steadily over the next six years - from $3.8 billion this year to just under $13 billion in 2018, according to a new report from Pike Research. Read Original Content

Inmarsat and SkyWave claim to have sold 12,000 of their IsatData Pro terminals aimed at satisfying M2M needs in the transportation, oil and gas, utilities and mining sectors so far this year. Read Original Content

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Whitepapers of Note

5 Tips to Minimize the Impact of Rising Fuel Costs in Field Service
The Mobile Business Forecast 2012
Mobility Innovations for the Next Generation Utility
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications
Yankee Report "MDM is Dead, Long Live MDM"

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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 Expert Video Series: Graham Robinson

I always love catching up with SAP Mentor and Founder of Yelcho Systems Consulting, Graham Robinson.  This time I catch him in Brisbane, Australia at the Mastering Enterprise Mobility with SAP event where I am speaking on mobile strategies.  In this interview he shares his thoughts and advice on mobile application development.

Video Link: http://youtu.be/vHfin3FlBxU

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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 Expert Video Series: Corey Adams

I was able to catch up with a new SAP Mentor, Corey Adams this week in Brisbane, Australia at the Mastering Enterprise Mobility with SAP conference.  Corey is a BI Team Leader for Frucor Inc, a non-alcoholic beverage and energy drink company.  In this interview he shares how using mobile BI solutions on iPads have provided Frucor with competitive advantages.  Enjoy!

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz5xm0RTcxM

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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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.

Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 4, 2012

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 Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
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SuperGeo Technologies has announced plans to launch mobile survey GIS SuperSurv 3.1 at the end of 2012.  SuperSurv integrates GIS and GPS technologies to enable Android users to collect spatial data.  Read Original Content

Honeywell Scanning & Mobility has unveiled the Dolphin 70e Black, a rugged hybrid device designed for fieldwork.  Read Original Content

Arlington Cemetery has released a new geospatial interactive map available as a free smartphone app and on the Arlington Cemetery website.  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.

Community Transit in Washington State is planning an upgrade to its bus system, equipping its buses with a GPS system that will provide information for riders and help buses run more efficiently.  Read Original Content

According to reports, the new iPad Mini device’s Wi-Fi version does not include built-in GPS.  Read Original Content

Motion Computing will host a series of webinars during the month of November discussing field mobility and point-of-service trends.  Read Original Content

The commercial geospatial market is delivering technologies to mobile users in numerous industries quicker and more efficiently.  The Frost & Sullivan report “Analysis of the U.S. Defense Geospatial Market - Focus Shifts from Products to Tools and Services” explores the U.S. defense geospatial market from 2011 to 2017.  Read Original Content

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has implemented a new GIS data integration solution that will automatically integrate and update data from multiple sources and produce interactive, portable and intelligent maps and imagery.  Read Original Content

Cummings Engineering Consultants and Ascent Rugged Mobile have developed the SAIFE Defender, a rugged mobile Android device with interoperable secure communications capabilities.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Manik Saha

I had the honor of meeting with SAP's Head of Global IT Processes, Manik Saha.  I spent time with him in both Aukland, New Zealand and in Brisbane, Australia over the past few days.  In fact we will both be speaking in Sydney and in Melbourne this week before he returns to Singapore and I return to Boise, Idaho.  Manik  is speaking on the subject of SAP Runs SAP Mobility.  In this interview he shares his thoughts on development trends and methodologies for mobile solutions.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWGXaPK6A5o

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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.

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 28, 2012

Quantas Freight has launched its new HTML5-based mobile app and mobile site for smartphones.  Read Original Content

Phineas Barnes, in the article “HTML5 Is the Real Loser In The iPhone Maps Fiasco” in Business Insider, believes that the native app experience is much better than web apps and HTML5 comes out the loser.  Read Original Content

QNX Software Systems has announced the HTML SDK, an extension of the open source BlackBerry WebWorks framework, specially optimized for automotive environments.  Read Original Content

Apple has purchased Particle, an HTML5 web and web app design firm that has done HTML5 work for Google, Motorola, Amazon, Yahoo, Sony, and Apple.  Read Original Content

Christian Heilmann of Mozilla believes developers shouldn’t abandon HTML5 - even with bumps along the road, as the benefits of HTML5 will ultimately prove worthwhile.  Read Original Content

Mobile social game company Gree has launched a new open-source tool for creating Unity - and HTML5-based smartphone apps with Flash content.  Read Original Content

Developer Eran Zinman of Conduit shares his “real life experience” with “Native, HTML5, and Hybrid Mobile App Development”.  Read Original Content

 The DevCon5 HTML5 Developers and Design Conference will be held November 27-29, 2012 in San Francisco and will feature leading HTML5 developers, engineers and evangelists.  For conference information, go to http://www.html5report.com/conference/california/.  Read Original Content

InfoWorld highlights “7 Apps Making the Most of HTML5” illustrating how to make the most of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS.  Read Original Content

Oracle has released its Application Development Framework Mobile, an HTML5 and Java-based framework to enable developers to build, deploy and extend enterprise applications for mobile environments from a single code base.  Read Original Content

Cookeatshare.com is developing a free HTML5-based site for iOS and Android devices.  Read Original Content

Mike James describes how to utilize HTML5’s Media Capture API when creating web apps in this article in i-programmer.  Read Original Content

Microsoft‘s HTML 5-based Office Web Apps are now live and available through SkyDrive and Outlook.com.  The new web apps have been fine-tuned to work properly with the final version of Internet Explorer 10, Windows 8 and iOS 6.  Read Original Content

According to LongTail Video’s “State of HTML5 Video”, 79 percent of the market can now play HTML5 video.  Read Original Content

Jeff Corbin of theIRapp outlines why he feels HTML5 misses the mark in mobile investor relations strategies in his whitepaper “Investor Relations (IR) Apps: Native or HTML5?”  Read Original Content

“Mobile applications and HTML5” are number two on Gartner’s list of the top ten strategic technology trends for 2013, and one of the assumptions by year end 2014 is that HTML5 will be the “mainstream enterprise app vehicle”.  Read Original Content

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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 Expert Video Series: Mike Hopkins

I had the privilege of speaking on mobile strategies in Brisbane, Australia today at the Mastering Enterprise Mobility with SAP conference.  While attending the conference, I met Mike Hopkins, with Mobile Asset Management at the Department of Conservation in New Zealand.  He has been involved in a number of mobile application projects and was kind enough to share the lessons he learned with us.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN9xpmwaw90

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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.

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of November 4, 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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Japan’s NTT Docomo has unveiled a real-time translator app for Android devices that will convert Japanese to English, Mandarin and Korean.  Translations to French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai will be added later in November.  Read Original Content

With an influx of new users due to low-priced handsets and low call rates, China Mobile has posted a 1.3 percent gain in third-quarter net profit.  Read Original Content

Due to the rapid commercialization of 4G cellular wireless standards and the increasing number of 3G network deployments, the wireless test equipment market in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand is predicted to grow at a rapid pace.  The market earned revenues of over $312.8 million in 2011 and is forecasted to reach $921.1 million in 2017.  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.

Results of a Visa and research firm TNS survey of Web users in Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea and Vietnam revealed that 40 percent of those responding viewed product information on the Internet via smartphones and tablets during 2012.  Read Original Content

According to a new Strategy Analytics Mobile Workforce Strategies report, there are many more companies now in China, India and Brazil open to a mobile workforce, and trends indicate that more businesses are investing in mobile devices and solutions to enable productivity and efficiency of their workforce.  Read Original Content

Asia has seen a 192.5 percent increase in mobile Internet traffic since 2010, with China leading the way.  Read Original Content

Globe Telecom has partnered with China Mobile Hong Kong and will soon partner with Korea’s SK Telecom to provide LTE data roaming services.  Read Original Content

RIM executives have stated Indonesia will be one of the first markets to receive the latest BlackBerry 10 and a new version of BlackBerry Messenger. RIM has 56 percent of the smartphone market in Indonesia.  Read Original Content

Gartner's New 2012 Magic Quadrant for Field Services

Have you seen the new 2012 magic quadrant on field services from Gartner?  It is quite strange.  SAP is listed in the bottom left even after the Syclo acquisition?  I thought Syclo was all about mobile enterprise asset management which is very closely aligned with field services (think preventative maintenance and repairs).

ClickSoftware, however, is listed far above everyone else in the top right quadrant.  The strange part is that SAP resells ClickSoftware's solutions as the SAP Workforce Scheduling and Optimization solution and it utilizes the SAP Mobility Platform.  What a small world we all live in.  It seems the Gartner analysis is less about the technology, and more about how it is positioned in the market.  I say that because you can get the same solution from both companies yet they are far apart on the MQ.

My analysis is that field services is much more than just a mobile app platform.  It includes dynamic scheduling, rostering, forecasting, time sheets, planning, etc.   Mobility is simply extending and enhancing the power of those solutions.  Without those connected back-office solutions, mobility loses much of its value.  That is how I interpret the MQ.  What about you?

More pondering... This must present a real dilemma for SAP sales folks selling into field services opportunities.  Should they sell their prospects the SAP Workforce Scheduling and Optimization solution by ClickSoftware, which is on their price list and listed in the very top right Gartner MQ for Field Services and sits on top of the SAP Mobility Platform, or should they sell their prospects just SAP Mobility Platform which is listed in the bottom left.  Yikes!  That is going to require some strategy.

In a timely but coincidental note, I will be joining Stewart Hill from ClickSoftware at 11 AM EST on November 13th to present a webinar titled, "Using Mobile Technology to Drive Business Visibility and Real-time Decision Making."  What a fun subject!!!  I invite you to join the discussion by registering here.
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of October 28, 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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TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Mobile Health Application market to grow at an annual rate of 40.4 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is increasing adoption of smartphones and social networking sites. Read Original Content

The use of mobile health tools will become more widespread, but barriers, such as security issues and a lack of best practices remain, according to a report from Frost & Sullivan. Read Original Content

Mobile health tools are helping socially disadvantaged citizens with diabetes around the world better manage their condition, a report from the non-profit group eHealth Initative says. 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.

An increasing variety of mobile health apps are now available to European patients in their local languages. PatientView’s European Directory of Health Apps 2012-2012 contains mobile apps across 62 health specialties and features apps in 32 different European languages. Read Original Content

To better serve the elderly at home as well as patients requiring remote monitoring outside of hospital and nursing home environments, AT&T last week announced it will provide mobile Internet capabilities for Embedded Wireless' Zilant Wellness Remote Monitoring Platform and mobile personal emergency response system. Read Original Content

Mobile health company LGTmedical has announced plans to launch a signal-processing platform to enable vital-sign monitoring using smartphones, tablets and laptops. Read Original Content

The use of telemedicine helped a primary care clinic more than double the percentage of diabetic patients undergoing screening for retinopathy over the course of a year, according to a research letter published this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine. 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.

A mobile application that enables health professionals to make evidence-based decisions on students’ health while on-the-go was launched by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization this week, during the Ninth Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information. Read Original Content

A new mobile health application allows consumers to use any smartphone camera to measure their heart rate in real time. The Cardio Buddy app, developed by consumer health company Azumio, utilizes a smartphone camera to detect a user's heart rate in real-time based on changes in facial coloration. Read Original Content

A new iPhone app developed at the University of Michigan enables athletes with concussions to track their injuries, symptoms, activities, and then to share that information via e-mail with physicians, coaches and trainers. Read Original Content

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Whitepapers of Note

5 Tips to Minimize the Impact of Rising Fuel Costs in Field Service
The Mobile Business Forecast 2012
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications
Service in 2012 The Continued Search for Revenue
Yankee Report "MDM is Dead, Long Live MDM"

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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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.