Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of September 26, 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.




A new report by Nielsen revealed information on smartphone buyers within the past three months comparing iPhone, BlackBerry and Android sales.  According to the report, 58 percent of people chose to purchase an Android device over an iPhone or BlackBerry.  Read Original Content




The Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada has broken down the revenue generators of the $52.1 million in mobile advertising during 2010.  Advertising for packaged goods was the highest revenue generator taking 22 percent, with telecom ads taking 19 percent.  Read Original Content




From flash-sales sites like Gilt Groupe to daily deal giants like Groupon, the deal business is expanding more quickly than expected this year, with consultancy BIA/Kelsey predicting $2 billion in revenues this year and $4.2 billion by 2015.  Read Original Content




Forrester conducted an online survey of 4,985 US information workers. The survey results illustrate that the typical information worker controls a variety of devices every day.  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 Podcast Series: ClickSoftware's Gil Bouhnick, Part 1

In this segment of the Mobile Expert Podcast Series we have as our guest Gil Bouhnick, a mobility expert, blogger and director of mobility for ClickSoftware.  I had the good fortune of spending a few minutes with him this week, and to record this 2 part podcast.  In Part 1 we focus on HTML5 and how companies are using it.  In Part 2 we discuss tablet trends, Windows 8 and enterprise mobility.



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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 Commerce News Weekly - Week of September 26, 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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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 value of financial transactions carried out via mobile phones will reach $245 billion worldwide by 2014 according to a new report by Ernst & Young.  Read Original Content

According to a recent announcement PayPal is now processing over $10 million per day in mobile transactions and expects $3 billion total in 2011.  Read Original Content

Research by Gartner shows that approximately 141 million consumers will have made payments using smartphones by the end of this year, up 38 percent from last year.  Read Original Content

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Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s are testing mobile devices in 350 stores to engage customers with products and help increase sales.  Read Original Content

Mobility ROI Weekly - Week of September 26, 2011, Part 2

This week I will publish several Mobility ROI reports (this is 2/3), as I have a bunch of ROIs that I have saved up over the past few weeks but have not had time to share. The ROI (return on investment) report includes ROIs that I come across in my weekly research on the topic of enterprise mobility. My goal is to create an archive of mobility ROIs that we can all use. I hope you find this helpful.

Aclaim Pallet Express recently installed a fleet telematics system using Trakm8 technology. Since the installation they have experienced a number of key benefits that contribute to their ROI:
  • ROI - reduced vehicle downtime and associated costs.
  • ROI - driving practices were adjusted and fuel costs reduced as a result of management's ability to monitor and supervise the driver's habits and routes. 
  • ROI - reduced fuel costs as a result of using more efficient routes.
  • ROI - reduced maintenance costs by developing more responsible driving habits.
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Webalo was chosen by University Hospitals Burmingham to outfit hospital employees and members of the National Health Service with mobile enterprise applications for their Blackberry devices. This allowed both Specialists at the University Hospitals and Doctors throughout the region to remotely access critical information and communicate with each other through their devices. The reported ROI’s were:
  • ROI - improved productivity and efficiencies as a result of pharmacists responding to requests for medication by looking up– from their smartphones – the details and characteristics of any of the 86,000 available drugs and instantly provide advice about suitability, availability and, if necessary, substitutions.
  • ROI - improved productivity and care as a result of doctors being able to obtain real-time assistance from UHB’s specialists. Once assistance is requested, Webalo connects the consulting physician to the details of the case, updates the records with the notes and advice provided by the consultant, and makes it all part of the patient’s permanent medical history.
  • ROI - the system has greatly accelerated the speed of diagnosis and treatments as a result of the use of the mobile solution.
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Panasonic Toughbooks are being used by ambulance service crews to record patient information and to update hospitals with time sensitive information while on route with patients. The use of Toughbooks in ambulances has the following ROIs:
  • ROI - important and critical health information can be sent to the receiving hospital ahead of the patient’s arrival which improves care and efficiency.
  • ROI - the number of unnecessary patient transfers will be reduced as a result of real-time and mobile data exchanges. 
  • ROI - driving efficiencies as a result of improved routing.
  • ROI - once this system is rolled out nationally, the savings could be as high as £150m annually.
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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.

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of September 26, 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!

UPS recently announced that the company was able to increase the number of deliveries and reduce the amount of fuel consumed by 3.3 percent after using fleet management technology for their delivery vehicles.  Read Original Content

According to Forrester Research more U.S. workers use iPhones and Android devices combined than total BlackBerry users.  However, BlackBerry still leads when separately compared.  BlackBerry is used by 42 percent of workers, with Apple's iPhone accounting for 22 percent and Android devices 26 percent.  Read Original Content

The Global Wireless Local Area Network market in the Healthcare industry is expected to grow at an annual rate of 5.7 percent between 2010 and 2014.  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/.

Recent research from Strategy Analytics Wireless Enterprise Strategies finds there has been a steady growth for mobile enterprise app stores.  This is mainly driven by the need to help users discover relevant apps to their line of business.  Read Original Content

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