Mobile Expert Video Series: TPC's Tony Smith

I had the pleasure of attending a session this week led by The Principal Consulting firm's Tony Smith at the SAPinsider Mobile2012 conference.  They now have experience working on over 25 SUP (Sybase Unwired Platform) implementations.  In this Mobile Expert Video Series segment, I corner Tony and ask him some additional questions about their experiences.

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

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Predictions on Enterprise Mobility and HTML5

I have conducted several surveys recently where I asked people to predict the percentage of enterprise mobility applications that will be written in HTML5 by 2014.  Three months ago I asked a group of "big firm" analysts for their prediction and it ranged from 30% to 50% of enterprise mobility apps.  Yesterday I asked a person here at the SAPinsider Mobile2012 event and their prediction was 20%.

Last month I polled a group on Linkedin, SAP Enterprise Mobility, and 20 people responded with their predictions.  Here are the unscientific, but interesting, results:

Question: What percentage of enterprise mobility apps will be developed using HTML4 by 2014?

• 20% said less than 30% of enterprise mobility apps
• 15% said 31% to 40% of enterprise mobility apps
• 10% said 41% to 50% of enterprise mobility apps
• 15% said 51% to 60% of enterprise mobility apps
• 40% said more than 61% of enterprise mobility apps

Fifty-five percent predict that more than 50% of enterprise mobility apps will be developed using HTML5 by 2014.  What are your predictions and why?

SAP has taken a strong stance in favor of HTML5 this last month.  They are investing a great deal into their HTML5 UIs.

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

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Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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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.

M2M News Weekly – Week of February 27, 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 University of Strathclyde has begun a $2.2 million project to equip cows with a "smart collar" that will allow their owners to keep tabs on them via cell phone.
The collar uses the same 3D sensor found in Wii video game controllers to detect shifts in the cow's head position. Read Original Content

According to Cisco, M2M traffic globally will grow 22-fold from 2011 to 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 86 percent. Cisco predicts M2M will account for five percent of total mobile data traffic in 2016, compared with four percent at the end of 2011. Read Original Content

Pedigree Technologies has released OneViewPOV, tablet applications for fleet management and field service automation that give field service workers a mobile interface that connects the mobile workforce and resources in the field to the enterprise. Read Original Content


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China's M2M is expected to grow from $642 million in 2011 to $2.76 billion in 2016, with smart meters and smart grid a significant portion of the market, according to ABI Research. Read Original Content

AT&T will provide M2M solutions to Ice Energy, a U.S. company that makes energy storage solutions for the utility space. The company's energy storage systems are mounted on large commercial buildings and used as an alternative to high-power-consumption air conditioning units. Using M2M, the company is able to monitor and maintain the units remotely, as well as diagnose faults. Read Original Content

Billions of dollars are being invested into upgrading the United State’s electric grid to an intelligent system capable of handling two-way transmission of information and power, but its security remains uncertain at best, a panel of government and industry experts said. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of February 27, 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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According to an Aberdeen Survey of 240 enterprises mobile apps designed to help employees complete works increase productivity by 45 percent. Read Original Content

Business Computing World in the U.K. found in a survey that 73 percent of executives reported growing use of employee-owned technology is a top priority in their business, and 88 percent of executives state that employees are using personal technologies for business purposes.  Read Original Content

By next year the Army will begin a shift toward allowing some soldiers and Army civilian employees to use their own personal mobile devices at work says Army deputy CIO Mike Krieger.  Read Original Content

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In the U.S. and EU5 markets, smartphone penetration grew at least 8 percentage points over the past year, with the UK showing the highest growth rate with a 17.1 percentage point increase, according to comScore’s latest report.  Read Original Content

A survey of around 500 Jaspersoft business intelligence users found that two-thirds of them have already deployed or now have concrete plans to deploy BI tools on mobile phones in their organizations.  Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of February 27, 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 a recent Manhattan Research survey, just over 25 percent of doctors in the EU use an iPad for professional purposes. The doctors surveyed use it primarily for content consumption: twenty-five percent of their “work online time” is spent on it, looking up articles, showing online resources to patients, and so on. Read Original Content

Aruba Networks has released the results of a survey focused on the networking priorities of more than 130 healthcare information technology professionals. Of the 85 percent of respondents who said they are supporting physician and staff use of personal devices at work, 53 percent said that they are currently relegated to Internet access only, while 24 percent provide limited access to hospital applications. Only eight percent currently enable full access to the hospital network with user-owned devices. Read Original Content

GPs in the UK could soon offer patients free smartphone apps to help manage their health. One app that has already been tested by GPs and community nurses as well as hospitals is called Patients Know Best. Using the app, patients can have online consultations with any member of their clinical team, receive automated explanations of their results, and work with clinicians for a personalized care plan. Read Original Content

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To help eliminate potential patient data breaches on mobile devices, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Stage 2 Meaningful Use has proposed that mobile devices that retain patient data after a clinical encounter should have default encryption enabled. Read Original Content

Ophthalmic imaging technology company Bioptigen now has regulatory clearance in Canada on a handheld medical device developed to give doctors better images of their patients’ eyes. Bioptigen is further developing its technology into a more compact handheld medical device that can be used with premature and neonatal infants, an effort supported by a $2.7 million grant awarded late last year by the National Institutes of Health. Read Original Content