Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of September 23, 2012

Welcome to 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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As Microsoft accelerates its efforts to increase its presence in the market for mobile Internet devices, Korea is crucial as it is home to some of the company’s major business partners, including Samsung and LG.  Read Original Content

American non-profit mPowering is working with Indian charity Citta to bring mobile technology to a rural, poor region of India, providing smartphones loaded with culturally customized mobile apps and location analytics built around the concept of rewards and incentives to 56 families.  Read Original Content

According to the head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China will issue 4G licenses for LTE TDD networks in about a year, which speeds up the original timetable for deployment of the high-speed networks in the country.  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.

Hong Kong mobile operator SmarTone has activated 4G LTE service and made Ericsson its sole end-to-end network supplier.  Read Original Content

Samsung has broken ground for a new memory manufacturing complex in China, which will produce NAND flash memory chips, a critical component powering IT and mobile applications for high-speed and large-density data storage.  Samsung expects the complex to be operational by 2014.  Read Original Content

China’s minister of industry and information technology stated that a comprehensive management system would be introduced in the country to include government management, industrial self-regulation and supervision by society over the Internet industry.  Read Original Content

Singapore's Workplace Safety and Health Institute has developed a new ergo@work mobile app to help to raise awareness on good ergonomics among office employees and help prevent work-related health issues due to poor postures.  Read Original Content

Singapore’s telecom firm SingTel is planning to launch money transfer services that can be handled directly from their customers' mobile phone by the end of 2012.  Read Original Content

Interesting Infograph on Enterprise Mobility

 I found this image at http://www.industryweek.com/digital-tools/bringing-mobility-enterprise.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

The Changing ROI of Enterprise Mobility

I remember just a few years ago companies would buy a ruggedized mobile handheld computer and then load just one software application on it.  The entire justification and projected ROI for purchasing the $3,000 ruggedized device was derived from just one app.

Times have changed!  Now you can purchase a $299 smartphone and load dozens of apps on it.  Let's think about this for a minute.  What if you had the following mobile apps on your smartphone:

• CRM
• Mobile BI
• Work Order Management
• Scheduling
• Enterprise Asset Management
• Enterprise Content Management
• Time Sheets
• HR
• Turn-by-Turn Navigation
• Knowledge Management
• Collaboration (Yammer, Jive, Chatter, etc)
• Product Catalogs, and Marketing Information
• Sales Orders and Credit Card Processing
• Etc

How would you write an ROI justification?  It is not an efficiency and productivity story alone, rather it is a whole new way of conducting business isn't it?  The ROI is on the business model, not just individual apps and devices.

The debate in boardrooms today should be on the merits of the new "mobile" business model, not only on the ROI of each individual app alone.  The ROI must also consider the opportunity costs of not doing it.  What if your competitors are embracing the new "mobile" business models and you are not.  There is an economic cost to that decision, or lack of a decision as well.

Where does your company stand?  Less than half of enterprises surveyed in the past few months have an enterprise-wide mobility strategy.  If a company is going to embrace mobility, and it has the potential of revolutionizing their business model, then I believe companies should be placing a higher priority on this effort.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC (Social, MOBILE, Analytics and Cloud), Cognizant

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Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of September 16, 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.

According to Preventice Inc. 2.2 million patients globally are using wireless monitoring, a figure estimated to approach 5 million by 2015. The company also said the global patient monitoring market will reach $9.3 billion by 2014. Read Original Content

As the global telemedicine market reaches $2.5 billion, industry leaders are gathering in San Diego to discuss grants, funding, vendor selection and credentialing. Read Original Content

WebMD, the leading source of health information, has announced its new WebMD Pain Coach for the iPhone, a unique free mobile application for consumers and patients living with chronic pain. 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 new tool from researchers at the University of Washington, allows individuals to monitor their lung function at home or on the go simply by blowing into a smartphone. Read Original Content

Mobile health application store Happtique has started testing a new online system that allows healthcare professionals to prescribe mobile health apps to their patients. Read Original Content

The market for smartphone applications for mobile health will double this year, to reach $1.3 billion and the market is still in embryonic state, says a recent survey. 
Berlin-based Research2guidance says the apps market was $104 million in 2010, then $718 million in 2011 almost a 600 percent increase. Read Original Content

The Department of Veterans Affairs continues its efforts to expand access to care for veterans using technology, including telehealth, currently through collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Read Original Content

A group of doctors from Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa have come up with a simple technology to improve knowledge among Kenyans. The mobile phone application known as iafya is a platform that contains health information simplified to make understanding easy. Read Original Content

Mobility News Weekly – Week of September 16, 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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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said more than 1.3 million Android devices are now activated each day. Schmidt said tablets account for 70,000 of those 1.3 million daily activations, a mere 5.38 percent of the total. Read Original Content

Apple sold 17 million iPads between April and June. That’s more iPads than any PC manufacturer sold of their entire PC line. The iPad had a 62 percent share of the tablet market a year ago. Today it has a 68 percent share. Read Original Content

Market research firm IHS iSuppli estimates that by 2013, cumulative shipments of Android smartphones will exceed 1 billion units. Handsets shipping with Google’s mobile operating system are expected to reach 451 million units in 2013 and approach 3 billion cumulative units in 2016.  Read Original Content

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Smartphone users worldwide will download more than 45 billion apps this year, nearly twice the number of apps downloaded in 2011, according to new data from Gartner.  Read Original Content

AnyPresence has announced it was named a CRN 2012 Emerging Vendor. The company was recognized as one of the key players that are significantly impacting the cloud computing industry.  Read Original Content

In a sign that consumers worldwide are increasingly turning to tablet devices for their computing needs, high-profile analyst firm IDC has raised its forecast for tablet shipments this year by 9 percent, estimating that 117.1 million units will be shipped.  Read Original Content

Facebook rose to its highest price in seven weeks after saying it is testing a service to place advertisements on mobile applications other than its own. Facebook shares advanced 6.5 percent to $23.29 at the close in New York, the highest since July 27.  Read Original Content

Google’s Motorola Mobility and chip maker Intel has unveiled the Razr i smartphone. It is very similar to the Razr M, unveiled earlier this month for U.S. consumers, but operates with Intel’s Medfield smartphone processor running at 2 Gigahertz instead of the Qualcomm chip that powers the Razr M.  Read Original Content

Almost every week, African software developers introduce new applications to the market. Two IT students in Uganda have developed an application that shows motorists the cheapest gas stations in the capital city, Kampala.  Read Original Content