Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of August 19, 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 Verasoni study, the top 150 health-related apps have been downloaded more than 67.5 million times onto iPhones, and more than 59.1 million times onto Android devices. Read Original Content

According to a survey by Parks Associates, almost 30 percent of respondents who are mobile phone users that have serious medical conditions say they would be able to monitor and handle their issues better if a mobile app was available that would help. The research also indicates that that as many as 20 percent of all smartphone users would like some kind of mobile medicine application. Read Original Content

Both the telehealth and mobile health markets are expected to increase dramatically over the next few years, according to market researcher GlobalData. Growing applications and availability led the firm to predict that the industry will grow from a 2011 valuation of $13.2 billion to $32.5 billion by 2018. 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 analysis of the global telemedicine market indicates that it will continue to grow at around 19 percent a year through 2015. In its report, “Global Telemedicine Market 2011-2015,” Research and Markets of Dublin predicts future prospects are immense. Read Original Content

According to GlobalData in a new report, the global mHealth market was worth $1.2 billion in 2011, but will jump in value to reach $11.8 billion by 2018, climbing at an impressive Compound Annual Growth Rate of 39 percent. Read Original Content

The market for remote patient monitoring systems is expected to leap to $20.9 billion over the next four years, according to a report by InformationWeek.
The rising number of elderly patients has the U.S. health care system looking for ways to manage costs and avoid hospital overcrowding. The market for remote monitoring systems grew from $3.9 billion in 2007 to $8.9 billion in 2011. Read Original Content

Health and well being applications are estimated to make up approximately 40 percent of new smartphone apps currently being developed. This is a huge market and only set to increase as the benefits become more apparent and smartphone and tablet technology become more widespread. Read Original Content

Mobilized Objects, M2M and Mobile Strategies

A good friend of mine is a civil engineer.  He works on many tidal flat and water way projects.  He was telling me about driving 2 hours north of Seattle to collect data from one water level sensor.  The data collection took one minute.  He then drove 2 hours back to Seattle.  For this one data collection activity, the cost was a 4 hours of time from a senior engineer, fuel and lost opportunity costs.

I shared with my engineering friend that there are M2M communication systems that utilize embedded wireless chips that could simply message him the data from the water level sensor using wireless technology.  He thought that would have been a brilliant idea!  Although a brilliant idea, it would have costs far more to set-up (mobilize the object) with a M2M system than it cost him to drive there and collect it for one sensor.  However, if he had 1,000 sensors that needed monitoring, the costs savings could have been enormous.   M2M systems need volume to generate a good ROI, but if there is volume there can be great strategic advantages and ROIs to be had.  Think about the endless possibilities!   What do you need to collect data on in the field?  What systems, equipment or sensors can you collect data on automatically and have wirelessly messaged to you?

In my mobile strategies workshops, I talk about the concept of "mobilized objects."  These objects can be all kinds of things you may not have considered mobilizing in the past.  Mobility is more than communicating on a smartphone with your mobile workforce.  It can be any data collected remotely and wirelessly sent back to a central management system.  Let me list a few "objects" that you may want to mobilize and collect data on in the field:

• People - Attendance//Qualifications/Experience/KPIs
• Job Status/Schedules
• Locations
• Vehicles
• Parts
• Inventories
• Equipment
• Equipment transportation
• Location and availability of vendors and subcontractors
• Job site access
• Job site security
• Inspections and Permits

All of these items may need to be monitored and data collected on them.  This data can be communicated by a human, or in many cases a remote sensor could collect it automatically.

A field service manager that wants visibility to his/her operations for optimal planning and scheduling purposes may appreciate the ability to look down at their iPad and see the location of all of their people, the status of the jobs each are working on, the qualification each have, the parts and equipment each need to complete the job efficiently and the availability of any sub-contractors or permits needed.  All of this data flowing in from the field can help a manager plan and optimize the productivity of his/her workforce.

Bar code labels and scanners can update information about parts, inventories and equipment checked in or checked out from the warehouse.  GPS tracking systems can update fleet and workforce management systems as to the location of vehicles, equipment, trailers and people.  Work Order Management systems can track the job status and schedules of service technicians and other mobile workers in the field.

M2M (machine-to-machine) communication systems can enable companies to monitor remote sensors across large geographical areas efficiently.  These are used extensively by large fleet managers to monitor vehicles, fuel consumption, location and engine performance.  Utilities monitor their smart grids and their electrical distribution systems.  Irrigation systems, canal systems, pipelines, remote security systems, and thousands of other remote systems also need monitoring.  An M2M system can provide automated data collection, and real-time alerts and notifications.

Mobilizing your workforce may be the first step, but step 2 is mobilizing your objects.  If you missed my interview with SAP's Sanjay Poonen, SAP is also focused on M2M today.

Mobility and M2M are ways of collecting data and sharing data to help people and machines make better decisions.  All enterprises should be taking some time to understand the sources of all the data they need in order to conduct business in the most efficient and productive manner possible.  Where does the data originate, and how can you make the data collection process easier, faster and more efficient?  After considering the source and collection of the data, ponder how if can be integrated with your back-end systems, analyzed and the results shared with the right people at the right time in the field via mobile devices.

This unified 360 degree view of the world can provide your management team with a "Network Centric Operational" environment.  Where everything is networked together to provide real-time visibility and situational awareness.  This is how you can efficiently manage the real-time enterprise.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of August 19, 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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Orlando, Florida based Kony Solutions has bought Sky Technologies, a mobility solutions provider specializing in SAP implementations based in Melbourne, Australia.  Read Original Content

Nokia Oyj, burning cash as it struggles to revive its smartphone business, is winning time for the recovery effort by gaining more customers for another product, basic mobile phones it sells for $39. Read Original Content

Verizon Wireless will carry Windows Phone 8 devices this year, in a major break from the carrier's overall coolness towards all things Microsoft. This could well be the jumpstart that Microsoft's struggling smartphone operating system needs.  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.

According to industry supply chain sources, after HTC’s One series failed to impress the market, they decided on significant price reductions across the whole model range. These include the models already on the market, as well as the upcoming new Android and Windows Phone 8 smartphones.  Read Original Content

According to a new smartphone market monitoring report from Horizon Research, the smartphone market will grow 20 percent in the next 12 months.  More than 55 percent adults will have smartphones by mid next year. Read Original Content

Looking at Japanese smartphone ownership in the three months ending June, ComScore found that Android took home the lion's share with a 64 percent share, up almost two points from the prior three months. Apple's iOS grabbed a 32 percent share.  Read Original Content

Taiwan's HTC has invested $35.4 million in a U.S. based provider of mobile enterprise apps, signaling the smartphone vendor is trying to fill a market space once occupied by Research In Motion's BlackBerry devices, according to analysts.  Read Original Content

LG Electronics said that it would expand the global launch of its flagship smartphone Optimus Vu in a bid to widen its presence in other nations. The company said that it would roll out the gadget in Europe next month and then launch it in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Asia and Latin America.  Read Original Content

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of August 19, 2012

Every week as I read articles, press releases and news about HTML5 developments, I am struck by how divergent the views are about the role of HTML5 in the enterprise.  I really think your views depend on your background.  If you are a consumer oriented mobile app developer, native is the only way to go.  If you are an enterprise oriented developer, then HTML5 is great.  What do you think?

Now for the news...

Microsoft has announced that the Pulse news app is now available on the Web and built entirely from HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3.  The new Web app shows that “future-Web technologies are rapidly approaching a state where they can easily re-create native app experiences in the browser”.  Read Original Content

To ensure as many visitors as possible can access their website, the Consortium of Foundation Libraries has developed an HTML5 mobile site in addition to their Flash-based website.  (See http://m.sophiaguevara.wix.com/html_cfl for a preview of the site.)  Read Original Content

ReelSEO provides a list and details about popular HTML5-capable video players and destination sites.  Read Original Content

Health crisis info and support site CaringBridge has launched a new interactive HTML5-based website which combines user-generated content with pre-designed video in order to create a new, custom video experience for each user.  Read OriginalContent

Magic Software's UK Managing Director, David Akka doesn’t believe HTML5 is currently suited to enterprise mobile applications.  “There is a lot of hype around HTML. Although it has improved over the last 15 years, it is still highly dependent on web browsers - with all the implications of that.”  Read Original Content

DevCon5’s HTML5 Summit will be held October 3-5, 2012 in Austin, Texas this year in conjunction with ITEXPO.  Read Original Content

HotelTonight’s chief technology officer Christopher Bailey and EyeforTravel’s Ritesh Gupta discuss HTML5 technology for the travel industry in this article “HTML5: Hype or Hope?”.  Read Original Content

This HTML5 article by Jos Dirksen illustrates how to render open data based onto a 3D globe, walking the reader through an infographic.  Read Original Content

A new HTML5 website gives Nintendo fans the opportunity to play classic games on their iPhone browser; however, performance is an issue with some of the games.  Read OriginalContent

As of August 15th, Android will no longer offer Flash for Android devices, making way for HTML5 to take over video on mobile browsers.  Android users with Flash will continue to receive security updates, but that is the extent to which Adobe will continue to support the plug-in. Flash will no longer be available in the Google Play store.  Read Original Content

This tutorial details how to use the Mobile Photo Album JQuery plugin for developers to build JavaScript galleries for mobile devices.  Read Original Content

A recent report from BI Intelligence highlights the pros and cons of native apps and HTML5, giving HTML5 the advantage in distribution and cost, and native apps the advantage in features, user experience and monetization. BII believes that HTML5 will win for the future.  Read Original Content

appMobi is guaranteeing developers will make money creating HTML5 apps by

offering complete access to their development tools and cloud services and only charging for apps that are profitable.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst and Mobile Strategy Consultant

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Mobile Marketing News Weekly – Week of August 19, 2012

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.

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A study by research firm Yankee Group says global mobile ad revenue will soar by three and a half times, to roughly $10 billion to $11 billion, by 2016. High-growth countries such as Brazil, China and India will lead the surge. Read Original Content

The latest round of research by mobile ad network InMobi finds that mobile advertising influences 48 percent of consumers on their purchasing decisions, with more late-technology adopters embracing m-commerce, and of those yet to use it, 45 percent expect to do so within the next twelve months. Read Original Content

According to IAB Australia, total mobile advertising expenditures for the past twelve months grew 212 percent and is valued at $47.5 million. Read Original Content

Sky Technologies has been making SAP mobility easy since 1998. With Sky, you can mobilize your business and empower your team with solutions that are quick to install, easy to use, highly secure, and already proven in hundreds of SAP mobility projects across the globe. For more information, visit www.skytechnologies.com.

eMarketer has released projections for ad spending on mobile marketing and found that the total market for advertising globally will reach $6.43 billion this year. Advertisers are expected to spend $2.4 billion on mobile advertising in the United States in 2012, up from $1.23 billion in 2011. Read Original Content

Brands and advertisers spent 150 percent more on mobile ad display prices over the course of the London Olympics Games, research from M&C Saatchi Mobile has found. Read Original Content

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said revenue from Sponsored Stories, the company's news feed ad product, has a run-rate of about $1 million per day, half of which comes from mobile. Read Original Content

Nokia is integrating Groupon daily deals into its Windows Phone-based Lumia device series, a move to expand the scope of its Nokia Maps platform beyond navigation assistance. Read Original Content

Kony Solutions Acquires Long Time SAP Mobility Partner Sky Technologies

Kony Solutions Acquires Sky Technologies

Kony Solutions today announced they have acquired long time Australian based SAP mobility partner Sky Technologies.  This appears to be a bold move by Kony Solutions to jump into the enterprise mobility market in general, and the SAP mobility market in particular.

Kony Solutions wanted to expand into the enterprise mobility arena, and Sky Technologies needed more investment and a bigger, global presence. Both Kony Solution and Sky Technologies have good technology stories and reputations.  This will make them both stronger and more formidable mobile application development platform competitors.  There is definitely market consolidation occurring.

Kony Solutions has been working hard over the last year to expand from their B2C mobility roots into the enterprise mobility space and this acquisition will bolster their credentials as Sky Technologies has over 14 years of experience delivering mobile solutions into the SAP ecosystem and over 100 SAP mobility deployments with large companies.  I have spoken to many SAP/Sky Technologies' customers over the years and have always heard good reports on their mobility solutions.

This spring I had the opportunity to film an interview with Kony Solution's Chief Mobile Officer Sam Lakkundi in which he shares details of their ambitions.  Also, while in Europe this summer speaking on mobile strategies I was able to meet Kony Solutions' Director of Technical Services, Jay Bopa Rai and film an interview him.  I have also recorded interviews with the Sky Technologies team over the years that offer insight into their solutions and focus:

• Interview with Steve Ware
• Interview with Bruce Johnson
• Interview with Roger Newby

SAP customers have went from enterprise mobility famine to feast.  They now have a plethora of good, solid choices to select from.

I invite you to follow me on Twitter @krbenedict and get all the enterprise mobility news and market developments.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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.

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments - The Tempo of Enterprise Mobility

In this video I discuss what "tempo" means to mobile strategies, and provide examples of how companies find competitive advantages by increasing their tempo through the use of mobile technologies.  How could increasing the tempo of your business through the use of mobile technologies help your bottom line?

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of August 19, 2012

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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According to a new Forrester Research report, mobile banking will reach 108 million users in the U.S. by 2017, approximately 46 percent of all U.S. bank account holders. Read Original Content

Smartphones will drive more than $730 billion worth of purchases over the next five years, according to Juniper Research. Read Original Content

ABI Research data has shown that over the next five years, the total revenues from mobile apps – including in-app purchases and pay-per-downloads, as well as in-app advertising and subscriptions – will explode. In fact, they are predicted to grow from last year’s $8.5 billion to $46 billion by the end of 2016. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

Mobile-payment transactions are expected to rise nearly fourfold over the next five years, exceeding $1.3 trillion, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Read Original Content

Fashion specialty retailer Nordstrom has jumped on to the mobile shopping bandwagon in style. The company has launched a free iPad app to help customers choose Nordstrom products easily and quickly. The app will enable customers to browse the store and choose products after trying various combinations in the Dressing Room. Read Original Content

McDonald’s is testing a mobile payment service featuring PayPal at 30 of its restaurants in France. Earlier this year McDonald’s ran demonstrations of a broader PayPal mobile payment service at its franchisee conference in Orlando, Florida. Read Original Content

A new study has found that parents with children under the age of 18 are more likely to use their smartphones for shopping activities than people without kids. Overall, 27 percent of parents made an online purchase using their smartphone compared with 17 percent of nonparents. Read Original Content

Dunkin’ Donuts is accelerating its position in mobile commerce with new iPhone and Android applications that lets consumers pay for beverages, food and merchandise at the point-of-sale. Read Original Content

The Tempo of Enterprise Mobility

I taught mobile strategy workshops in 11 countries last year.  In these workshops, one of the first questions I ask is, "What tempo is your business wanting and/or needing to support?"  The definition of tempo that I use is "rate of motion or activity."  In other words, "Does your business environment require a real-time data and communication environment, near-real-time, or is an hourly or daily tempo sufficient?"  These are important questions and they dictate what kind of mobile solution architecture you should be considering.

I helped a large mining company a few years ago to think through their mobile strategy.  They operated large underground mines in remote locations.  They needed production numbers from the mine to prepare downstream resources to process and transport the mined materials.  They needed to know who came to work in remote locations, who was sick, who was on vacation, etc.  They needed to know what equipment required repair and maintenance and when that work would impact production.  They needed to know the production of each shift.

At the time the mining company contacted me, they were using color coded sheets of dirty paper to collect this data in the mine, and at the end of each shift, the supervisor delivered it to a job shack at the top of the mine and an administrative person would enter the data into a networked software system on a desktop computer.

The mining company wanted to upgrade their processes and communication from once every shift, to a real-time tempo.  They wanted instant notification if equipment broke down, and if parts or expert technicians were needed to keep production going.  They wanted to know instantly about any safety issues.  They wanted to know the production numbers throughout the shift, not just at the end of the shift.

Every business process and industry has an optimal operational and communication "tempo."  Knowing what tempo is possible, and how an increased tempo could help improve your operations is critical.  Enterprise mobility solutions have the capability of revolutionizing complete industries by increasing their tempo to provide better customer service, respond to issues faster, fix problems before they become bigger, take advantage of opportunities before competitors can respond, and to greatly improve productivity and efficiencies.

 Some companies understand the competitive advantages that an increased tempo offers, but others don't.  Even today, I have seen companies implementing enterprise mobility solutions and mobile strategies that effectively limit them to a relatively slow tempo for the next three or four years, while their competitors are creating infrastructure and mobile architectures that will enable real-time communications and updates.  These companies see value in real-time business analytics, real-time updates, real-time alerts and notifications, real-time GPS tracking, real-time scheduling, real-time CRM data, real-time inventory updates, real-time production information, etc. 

What tempo would optimize your business or business process?  What will it take to support a faster tempo?  Do you have the capability of processing and utilizing real-time mobile data, or would the data be wasted on antiquated back-end systems and and out-data processes?

My recommendation is to understand your current tempo of communication and operations and how an increased tempo could positively impact your business.  Identify the bottlenecks in your system that limit your tempo and start removing them.  Mobile data sent from smartphones, tablets, mobile handheld computers, M2M, RFID, bar code scanners, GPS, etc, can provide you with real-time data.  Your challenge is knowing what to do with it, and how to integrate and process it to improve your competitive position.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly – Week of August 19, 2012

The Field Mobility and M2M 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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The use of RFID wristbands in hospitals and health care facilities is on the rise due to the many benefits the technology offers for both the patients and health care personnel.  Read Original Content

Deutsche Telekom has announced the launch of a new M2M developer community which provides developers with access to APIs, programming guidelines and software development kits for building and selling M2M apps.  Read Original Content

Location management, cloud services and tablet-based options are included as part of the enhanced Field Force Manager and Fleet Control solutions from Verizon Wireless.  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.

Truecount has developed a solution for retailers unsure of how to begin implementing RFID technology for their business.  “RFID in a briefcase", or RFID 2-GO, provides all of the necessary RFID hardware and software (except for tags), packed into a compact carrying case.  Read Original Content

GPS provider MapmyIndia has launched CarPad 5, a combination GPS navigator, smartphone and 3G tablet that runs on the Android OS.  Read Original Content

A GPS app, ZabKab, allows users to “hail” a taxi from their mobile device and their location is sent to ZabKab app-equipped taxi drivers looking for passengers.  Read Original Content

The BarCode News provides detailed information and reviews on barcode readers and scanners in this article, “Bar Code Hardware - Barcode Scanners and Barcode Readers”.  Read Original Content

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of August 19, 2012

Welcome to the 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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GPS provider MapmyIndia has launched CarPad 5, a combination GPS navigator, smartphone and 3G tablet that runs on the Android OS.  Read Original Content

According to a survey from research firm Analysys International, tablet sales in China have increased 63 percent in the past year.  Chinese consumers purchased 2.34 million tablets during the second quarter of 2012, with iPads comprising 72.6 percent of the sales.  Read Original Content

India’s Tyroo Direct has launched new product offerings for mobile performance to enable advertisers to scale their digital marketing campaigns by being visible on all screen types - web, tablets and mobile.  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.

To meet the demand for high bandwidth mobile broadband access, Huawei will work with China Mobile to deploy WLAN mobile backhaul networks in 17 cities in the Shandong province.  Read Original Content

A new study from Adobe reveals consumers in the Asia Pacific region primarily use mobile search due to time spent away from home and not having access to a desktop PC.  Read Original Content

RFID technology is being utilized in India to provide the public with schedule-related information and to ensure buses operated through the Vytilla Mobility Hub stay on schedule.  Read Original Content

A new mobile marketplace in Singapore and a winner at Startup Weekend Singapore 2012, Carousell, has gone live and the app is available exclusively in Singapore.  Read Original Content

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of August 12, 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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Also read Field Mobility and M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
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Both the telehealth and mobile health markets are expected to increase dramatically over the next few years, according to market researcher GlobalData. The firm expects the industry to grow from a 2011 valuation of $13.2 billion to $32.5 billion by 2018. Read Original Content

The U.S. market for “advanced” wireless patient monitoring systems more than doubled in a four-year period, from $3.9 billion in 2007 to $8.9 billion in 2011 – at an annual rate of nearly 23 percent – according to a new report from Kalorama Information. Read Original Content

According to a study by Verasoni, the top 150 health-related apps have been downloaded more than 67.5 million times onto iPhones, and more than 59.1 million times onto Android devices. Among these 150 apps, the most popular are related to weight loss. 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

A Vitera Healthcare survey shows that nine of ten doctors would like to be able to use an electronic health record on their mobile devices. In a survey of 240 Vitera customers, most of them office-based physicians, 72 percent said they used mobile devices in healthcare. Read Original Content. Read Original Content

Ford has integrated IMS Health's Allergy Alert app into its Sync AppLink software to allow drivers with an iPhone or iPad to track pollen counts on the road. Read Original Content

According to research by Pew, 88 percent of Americans have a cellphone and about half of those are smartphones. Only 10 percent of Americans have downloaded health-related apps on those devices, a figure that’s remained stable since 2010. Read Original Content

Health monitoring for seniors will bring 36 million wearable health monitors to market by 2017, an increase from 3 million in 2011, according to an ABI Research report. Read Original Content

SAP Enterprise Mobility and M2M in Your Company

Last week I spent some time with SAP's Sanjay Poonen discussing M2M (machine-to-machine) communications.  I came away from that discussion excited that SAP was focusing on this emerging market that I have found so fascinating. Most IT departments have been so focused on figuring out how to implement enterprise mobility and support communicating with people using smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, that they have not yet thought about communicating with mobile and/or remote machines.

Here is an excerpt from the article I wrote last week about my discussions with SAP's Sanjay Poonen on the topic of M2M.  "Sanjay and I spent quite a bit of time talking about where mobile security is going, beyond MDM.  From MDM to Mobile App Management, to Secure Content Management, to eventually M2M (machine-to-machine) communications.  He talked about how this field will have a big impact in SAP’s plans.  In fact, Sanjay had just chaired a conference call with about 50 SAP internal people to brainstorm about M2M, and there is a great deal of excitement around SAP’s plans in this area."

Perhaps it is early, but not too early to begin pondering the strategic value of M2M in your company.  What machines, sensors, facilities, security systems, vehicles, plant equipment, supplies and materials would it be valuable for your ERP and other systems to automatically communicate with?  What automatic monitoring data would be useful for your operations?

Canal and irrigation management systems are regularly using M2M technology today in remote sensors to record and wirelessly transmit water levels, the statuses of gates and to adjust water levels.

Utility companies are one of the biggest users of M2M technologies.  Their assets (lines, substations, transformers, pipelines, storage tanks etc) are in remote locations and remote M2M sensors and wireless chips can monitor their statuses and report to a central location.

Fleet management systems also take advantage of M2M.  Vehicles report their location, speed, fuel usage, hours of operation, repair and maintenance needs all automatically using M2M.  This is machine's sending data automatically to other machines.

Vending machine companies today are widely using M2M technologies that enable their vending machines to automatically report inventory levels and other information from the kiosk or vending machine.  You can imagine the savings in efficiencies if the route driver knows in advance exactly what each vending machine needs, and when it needs it to maximize sales and productivity.

Manufacturing plants can be revolutionized by the use of M2M technologies.  Can you imagine having a central team managing plants around the world from one location that is receiving and processing M2M communications from all of the equipment in all the plants?  Wow!

Large companies can end up having massive amounts of M2M data flowing into the company.  The next challenge of course is what to do with it.  M2M data looks just like data coming in from a smartphone.  The data from a Yes or No answer on a smartphone app, looks just like M2M data reporting the gate is open in yard #3.  IT departments need to ensure the data is secure and accurate.  They need to monitor and track all of their M2M technologies and wireless embedded chips to ensure they are working properly and the data is good.  This data needs to be integrated with the right systems.  The systems need to understand what to do with it.

M2M communications can be the front-end data collection mechanisms for many systems. The automated inputs for all kinds of business processes.  Big Data technologies and business analytics to quickly interpret the meaning of all the data and to translate it into a form that can help managers make good real-time data driven decisions in the field.  These alerts and notifications can be sent to the mobile devices of managers no matter their locations for quick and immediate responses.

M2M systems can reuse many of the same mobile middleware, mobile device management, integration, provisioning and security components that are used for supporting enterprise mobility today.  The main challenge will be developing an enterprise-wide M2M strategy, and since this is also the big challenge with enterprise mobility, we may have to wait in line.

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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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.

Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of August 12, 2012

In my 2012 Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility Survey last month, I asked the question, "How important is HTML5 or HTML5 hybrid apps to your company's enterprise mobility plans?"  Mobility consultants rated it 2.6 out of a 4 - with 1 being "Not Important" and 4 being "Critical." The 2.6 weighted average is between "Somewhat Important" and "Very Important" on the scale.

Now for the news...

HTML5 WebSockets have been identified as a potential security risk.  One key issue is that since WebSocket technology is still relatively new, most firewall and IPS network security devices are not aware of them; therefore, WebSocket traffic is not inspected or secured by the same mechanism as other web traffic.  Read Original Content

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions is developing a suite of tools “to give device manufacturers and HTML5-enabled application developers access to core network capacities”.  The toolkit release is targeted for late 2012.  Read Original Content

With the adoption of HTML5 rising at a steady pace worldwide, there are performance challenges with on mobile devices that must be overcome.  Read Original Content

Web-based task manager Todoist has announced a major update incorporating HTML5 features.  The company founder believes that HTML5’s offline support and web storage are key features; however, he also believes that “HTML5 introduces a lot of new technical challenges and is probably the main reason why few web applications use it”.  Read Original Content

Web developer Burke Holland created a Kendo UI Mobile Bootstrap to provide developers with a basic mobile layout with which to jumpstart HTML5 projects.  He provides instruction in this article “Improving Your HTML5 Mobile Development Experience”.  Read Original Content

Two good examples of what HTML5 brings to the table are its video capabilities and the ability to offload data onto mobile devices so that applications can operate locally.  ReadOriginal Content

This article from Safari Books Online provides details for development of an HTML5 canvas-based mobile web game, including tips and tricks for a full screen web app that “feels like a native game or app, right in the browser”.  Read Original Content

Vice president and general manager of mobile for Black Entertainment Television says the network is definitely interested in HTML5 for mobile, and is currently weighing options to improve its “touch-optimized experience for mobile Web”.  Read Original Content

Targeting mobile web developers interested in HTML5 and JavaScript, JSCamp Asia will be held in Singapore on November 29 and 30, 2012.  (http://jscamp.asia/) ReadOriginal Content

Freshdesk has released an HTML5-based mobile version of its online customer support service.  ReadOriginal Content

According to Forrester, from the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2012, HTML5 browser penetration jumped from 57 percent to 75 percent.  Forrester states it’s time for companies to embrace the latest Web standards and start building richer Web experiences that take advantage of the capabilities that are supported by modern Web browsers.  Read Original Content

An article in Dark Reading, “Top 3 HTML5 Vulnerability Risk Categories”, states that “developers need to think carefully about the vulnerabilities that their new code may introduce into their organizations' Web infrastructure”.  Read Original Content

Apple’s decision to drop YouTube from new versions of iOS may be a boost for HTML5 if millions of users suddenly realize how easy it is to load HTML5 apps in the Safari browser it could be “a major turning point for HTML5 – after all, it can do most of what iOS apps need to do”.   Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Mobile Industry Analyst, Mobile Strategy Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

Read The Mobility News Weekly

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.