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.

M2M News Weekly - Week of August 8, 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
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Marketing News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read Mobility Charts Weekly
Also read Mobility ROI Weekly

According to market analysis by Compass Intelligence, the U.S. next-generation M2M market will grow to 87 million connections by 2015, growing 25 percent per year. Read Original Content

The growing M2M market is driving the profits of many communication companies as more and more people seek to increase connectivity throughout their daily lives. Iridium Communications, a satellite communications company, tripled its second quarter profits as its M2M business saw a spike in demand. Read Original Content

Boeing Co. and Siemens AG announced plans for a strategic alliance to develop and sell smart-grid and other energy-saving technologies to the Defense Department, the biggest single energy consumer in the U.S. 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/.

Machina Research recently published a report predicting the automotive market will contain 1.4 billion M2M connected devices by 2020, up from 90 million in 2010. Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Mobile Data and the Real Time Enterprise

In this segment of Kevin Benedict's Video Comments, I discuss the increasing volumes of mobile data coming into the enterprise, and how IT organizations will need to learn how to process it so it can be useful for managers that are managing a real-time enterprise.

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

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict
Visit www.MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

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.

Build vs Buy: Mobile App Development and Enterprise Mobility

TL Neff

Build vs Buy is one of the oldest and most complex questions that businesses debate for every IT solution. In the context of enterprise mobility the discussion gets even more complex as there are many different devices, operating systems, versions, mobile middleware platforms, development environments, integration strategies, etc. In this upcoming webinar, myself and T.L. Neff will discuss the full lifecycle requirements and total cost of ownership in mobile app development.

The tradeoffs of build vs buy across the full lifecycle of native mobile apps
The hidden details that impact total cost of ownership in build and buy strategies
Best practices in implementing a mobile app development project

Wednesday, August 24th at 1 PM EDT - Register Here!

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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 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

Psion EP10
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

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.

Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of August 8, 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

Online and mobile advertising networks serving platforms and exchanges are projected to clear an estimated $5.65 billion in gross video media spend in 2011, according to an interdisciplinary sector report. Read Original Content

Gartner has estimated that worldwide spending on mobile advertising will double in 2011 to $3.3 billion, from $1.6 billion in 2010, and should reach $20.6 billion by the year 2015. Read Original Content

Fast food franchise Taco Bell is using QR codes on its fountain drink cups and big box packaging to offer exclusive MTV content to consumers. 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.

According to a recent Forrester report, consumers prefer to shop using their tablet devices rather than smartphones. Read Original Content

The Enterprise Mobility Exchange in Las Vegas - November 2 and 3

I wanted to point out to everyone that there is going to be an extraordinary speaker line-up at The Enterprise Mobility Exchange in Las Vegas this year. The conference is scheduled for November 2nd and 3rd. I am lucky enough (you must request to be invited) to be attending this exclusive mobility event and look forward to learning from these mobility experts. Here are some of the speakers that I look forward to learning from:

Onyeka Nchege
Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Coca Cola Bottling Company Consolidated

Tony Winston
Senior Manager Mobility Solutions
American Airlines

Eugene Signorini
Vice President, Research
Yankee Group

Ken Bodenhoefer
Senior Manager, Business Process & Technology Integration
Southern California Edison

Christian Kane
Research Analyst
Forrester

Stephen Malowney
Enterprise Financial and Operations Solutions Manager
Sempra Energy

Scott Taylor
Director of Field Service
Vivint

Matthew Berardi
Managing Director, Field Technology Operations
FedEx Ground

John Leabeater
Lead Technical Analyst, AIDC & Mobility
Coca Cola Bottling Company Consolidated

Joe Chung
MobileConnect Program Lead
PG&E

Divya Mahajan
Director Architect for Enterprise Integration and SOA
Philips International

Shawn Crossley
Senior Enterprise Architect
PG&E

Ted Johnson
IT Manager, Mobility Support
Exelon

I hope to see you there! If you are attending, let's meet up.

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

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict