Kevin Benedict Ponders the Future

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.

Mobility ROI Weekly - Week of August 8, 2011

This weekly ROI (return on investment) report includes ROIs that I come across in my weekly enterprise mobility and mobile data collection research. My goal is to create an archive of mobility related ROIs that we can all use when we need them. I hope you find this useful.

UK based freight companies John Lewis and Waitrose both implemented fleet telematics systems on their trucks in 2010. Their investments into telematics solutions were for the purpose of improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions. To date the reported ROIs are:

Reduced driving times
Reduced truck maintenance requirements
Reduced carbon emissions from shipping trucks by 4%
Reduced fuel costs

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The results of a new vehicle tracking survey shows that businesses using fleet GPS tracking systems are saving money in many ways. The ROIs reported are:

70% of survey participants saw overall reduced operational costs due to an increased awareness of driver habits and actions.
15.3% of businesses reported that the telematics solution reduced the amount of overtime claims that employees filed.
13.3% of businesses reported lower communications costs as a result of making deliveries more efficient and manageable.

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UPS recently announced that it has been using a fleet management system that allows the company to view data on how each vehicle performs mechanically, as well as the driver’s route and behavior behind the wheel. UPS reported the following ROIs:

An overall fuel savings of 3.3% per package delivered after routes became more efficient through vehicle tracking.
Savings of 15.4 million minutes of vehicles idling, this also increased overall productivity with less unproductive driver time used.
Eliminated 63.5 million miles of unnecessary driving after supervisors were able to more carefully monitor drivers and their delivery habits.

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Mission Foods, the world’s largest supplier of tortillas and other food products recently made the switch from disposable wooden shipping pallets to reusable plastic containers that are significantly more expensive. In order to keep track of the plastic shipping containers and to prevent losses Mission Foods installed RFID tracking tags to each unit. The overall cost to equip containers and warehouses with RFID technology was $100,000. Their reported ROIs are:

Savings of $15 million within the first five years resulting from being able to reuse the new plastic RFID-enabled containers compared to the previously disposable units.
A 91% decrease in energy consumption by Mission Foods activities.
A 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

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Upcoming Events

Build vs Buy: Mobile App Development - August 24, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
Field Mobility 2011 - October 25 - 27, 2011
Enterprise Mobility Exchange - November 2 - 3, 2011

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Enterprise PDA

Whitepapers of Note

The Business Benefits of Mobile Adoption with SAP Systems
ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Mobile Adoption Among Gas and Electric Utilities
Mobile Adoption in Life Sciences
Mobile Adoption in Oil and Gas
Networked Field Services

Recorded Webinars of Note

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

Articles on Ruggedized and Industrial Mobile Devices

Consumer Smartphones or Industrial Smartphones?

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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.

Mobility News Weekly - Week of August 8, 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

According to the statistics of digitimes.com, although Nokia keeps the leading position in the Chinese smartphone market with a market share of 20 percent to 30 percent, the iPhone and Google's Android system have been threatening Nokia's leading position. Read Original Content

According to Comscore, RIM’s market share has almost halved after declining from 40 percent in June last year to 23 percent in June this year. However, its stock has slumped even more and declined from a peak of $70 in February this year to less than $24 as of today. Read Original Content

A study conducted by research firm IDC shows that the global mobile market has grown by 65.4 percent year-on-year, with manufacturers shipping 106.5 million units during the second quarter of 2011 as compared with 64.4 million units during the corresponding period of last year. 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/

Android continues to go from strength-to-strength, with the latest sales figures showing that almost 50 percent of new smartphones sold in the UK run Google's mobile operating system. Read Original Content

Video Comments: Mobile Technologies and the Real Time Enterprise

Today, I am working on power point slides for my upcoming SAP TechEd 2011 session called Mobile Technologies and the Real Time Enterprise. Yes SAP, I know I am a bit late with these. This Video Comments segment is a preview to some of the subjects I will be covering in that session.

I hope you can join me at TechEd 2011!!!

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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.

Syclo Conversation about Trends

Syclo's Joe Granda

I caught up with Syclo's EVP of Global Marketing, Joe Granda today. There are a lot of things happening at Syclo this year. They are busy building support for Sybase's Unwired Platform (learn more here) and adding Android support for all of their mobile solutions. They also just finished their largest user conference of all time where they offered over 44 different educational sessions. Next on their schedule is SAP's TechEd where they will have a booth.

I asked Joe about trends he is seeing these days in the enterprise mobility space. He named three:

The increasing demand for tablets in the field services industry.
Android is now the number one shipping smartphone.
Increasing desire for customers to want mobile B2C (business to consumer) apps.

These trends have emerged just over the past few months.

Upcoming Events

Field Mobility 2011 - October 25 - 27, 2011
Enterprise Mobility Exchange - November 2 - 3, 2011

Whitepapers of Note

The Business Benefits of Mobile Adoption with SAP Systems
ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Mobile Adoption Among Gas and Electric Utilities
Mobile Adoption in Life Sciences
Mobile Adoption in Oil and Gas
Networked Field Services

Recorded Webinars of Note

Syclo and SAP Deliver Mobile Apps on Sybase Unwired Platform
3 Critical Considerations for Embracing Mobile CRM
The Future of Enterprise Mobility
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

Ruggedized and Industrial Mobile Device Articles

Consumer Smartphones or Industrial Smartphones?

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict