Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of September 23, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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The number of mobile phones in use around the world in 2011 reached six billion while the number of mobile banking users worldwide reached 300 million with adoption of the service in developed countries growing significantly. Read Original Content

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Mobile Commerce Payment market in China will grow at an annual rate of 41.67 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing adoption of mobile devices. Read Original Content

InMobi, the largest independent mobile advertising network, announced it has experienced 437 percent growth in rich media ad impressions on its HTML5 ad authoring platform, Sprout, in the first eight months of 2012. 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. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Sky Technologies.

Groupon, the online deals site, has introduced a new mobile payment system aimed to offer “the lowest rates in today’s marketplace” when consumers pay through its app on an iPhone or iPod Touch. Read Original Content

To stake its claim in the emerging technology of digital wallets, Discover has announced separate partnerships with Google and PayPal. Discover cardholders now can use Google Wallet for payments. PayPal plans to use Discover's extensive merchant network to make a big push into bricks-and-mortar stores. Read Original Content

Last year, Facebook beat Google in display ad revenue. In 2011, Google took home $1.67 billion in net revenue from U.S. display ads and grabbed 13.5 percent of the market. Facebook took home more with $1.73 billion in revenue for 14.1 percent share that year. Read Original Content

Mobile advertising costs are increasing on average by 20 percent as the marketplace matures, James Hilton, CEO of Saatchi Mobile has stated. Read Original Content

M-commerce revenues are expected to grow to $31 billion by 2016, according to Forrester Research. The number of mobile devices available for making purchases on the Web has drastically increased since the iPhone first made waves. Read Original Content

Competitive Decision Making and Enterprise Mobility

The late US Air Force Colonel, and great military strategist John Boyd talked a lot in his workshops about "competitive decision-making."  He taught that individuals that could think better and faster than their opponents had a great advantage.  I agree with Boyd, and believe that implementing mobile solutions in the enterprise can facilitate this advantage.

Last year's report by the Aberdeen Group titled Mobility in ERP 2011 also touched on this point with three specific statements:

1. Getting the right information, to the right people, so they can make the right decisions is the driving force behind mobilizing the workforce. 
2. Why is there a need for mobility?  Much of it is related to volatility.  The need to be able to react as quickly as possible to issues without being tethered to a desktop.
3. Mobile solutions should provide workers with information to make good and timely decisions.

Aberdeen Group describes the value of mobile solutions as - it helps you make "right, good and timely decisions, and to react as quickly as possible to issues."  That sounds like competitive decision-making to me.

How do you put these kinds of values into an ROI for enterprise mobility?  Boyd said, "How one thinks is critical to your success in competition.  Well trained and well-educated people, who think well and quickly are the most important assets."  I suggest that mobile solutions and up-to-date information shared on mobile devices can help well-trained people react quickly to issues.

Boyd further taught that competitive decision-making enables the benefit of compressing time and using it as an ally.  What he meant was the ability to get more done in the same amount of time.  "Advantages in observation and orientation (OODA) enable a tempo in decision-making and execution that outpaces the ability of your competition to react effectively."  Advantages in observation and orientation can be providing by having real-time data exchanges, real-time business analytics, and connect mobile apps.

I ask the difficult question again, "How does one show an ROI on enterprise mobility solutions by providing quicker, faster, better thinking?"

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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.

M2M News Weekly – Week of September 23, 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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According to ABI Research, home automation and home entertainment together are forecast to grow to over $300 million per annum by 2017. Read Original Content

The clear leader in terms of smart meter shipments in Europe is Germany, where annual smart meter shipments will reach 7 million by 2020, nearly as much as all Eastern Europe countries combined. The German smart meter market will expand at a compound annual growth rate of 63 percent between 2011 and 2020. Read Original Content

GlobalData projects that the global smart grid cyber security market will climb to more than $79 billion by 2020 and grow at a CAGR of 20 percent. Read Original Content

ILS Technology provides ready-to-use cloud based platforms to implement and manage M2M (machine to machine) and embedded wireless devices that connect to SAP.  ILS Technology simplifies deployments and offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data and to ensure regulatory compliance. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers anticipates that by the year 2040, driverless cars, operated using M2M technology, will account for up to 75 percent of cars on the road worldwide. Read Original Content

Cellular M2M connections totaled 132 million as of June 2012, and generated $5.68 billion over the preceding 12 months, according to the latest data from Informa Telecoms & Media. Read Original Content

The traditional uses of RFID within the automotive sector are continuing to grow and are projected to increase by $2.8 billion from 2012 to 2017. Read Original Content

According to a new report from Pike Research, the worldwide market for smart grid data analytics is expected to grow steadily through 2020, with cumulative worldwide spending from 2012 through 2020 totaling just over $34 billion. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

By 2020, more than 237 million smart electricity meters will be deployed across Europe and almost 90 percent of installed electricity meters in Western Europe will be smart, according to a new report from Pike Research. Read Original Content

The traditional uses of RFID are continuing to grow and are projected to increase by $2.8 billion from 2012 to 2017. However, ABI Research found that modernizing RFID applications will grow twice as fast with annual revenues derived from these jumping by $4.5 billion in the same timeframe. Read Original Content

By the end of 2016, annual worldwide shipments for smart meters will reach 130 million units, reports IDC Energy Insights. Read Original Content

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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 Theory of Everything (Sort of) and Mobile Technologies

Sometime back I read an article in the New York Times titled, The Theory of Everything (Sort of) by Thomas L. Friedman.  Here is an excerpt, "Thanks to cloud computing, robotics, 3G (4G now) wireless connectivity, Skype, Facebook, Google, Linkedin, Twitter, the iPad and cheap Internet enabled smartphones the world has gone from connected to hyper-connected...  This is the single most important trend in the world today.  And it is a critical reason why, to get into the middle class now, you have to study harder, work smarter and adapt quicker than ever before.  All this globalization is eliminating more and more "routine" work- the sort of work that once sustained a lot of middle-class lifestyles."

I suggest the same is true for the enterprise.  The enterprise must study harder, work smarter and adapt quicker that ever before.  The world is changing and mobile technologies are going to revolutionize the way companies work.

In the last several enterprise mobility survey polls that I have reviewed, more and more companies plan to use mobile technologies as a driver for change.  Here are the results from my latest report, Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility 2012 report:

Question: Is your company planning to change or re-engineer business processes to take advantage of mobile technologies?

No Changes - 5%
Few Changes - 27%
Many Changes - 48%
Revolutionize the business - 20%

Companies cannot simply watch from the sidelines as others improve their competitive positions by implementing mobile solutions.  Enterprise mobility is not a passing fancy, but a technology revolution that will be here for the rest of your career.

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

Read The Future of Work

Visit MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the Strategic Enterprise Mobility Linkedin Group

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.

Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of September 23, 2012

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 Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly

GreenRoad and GPS Insight have partnered to offer GreenRoad Advanced Tracking, an advanced fleet tracking capability as part of a driver performance management service.  Read Original Content

According to the 2012-13 U.S. Mobile Resource Management Systems Market Study, the use of GPS based mobile resource management systems has grown more than 50 percent since 2009, with local fleet operations leading the growth.  Read Original Content

Nike has obtained a patent to put data-collecting sensors on golf clubs “to improve personalization” such as analysis of a golfer’s swing.  Read Original Content

ILS Technology provides ready-to-use cloud based platforms to implement and manage M2M (machine to machine) and embedded wireless devices that connect to SAP.  ILS Technology simplifies deployments and offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data and to ensure regulatory compliance. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology.

Third year replacement rates for non-ruggedized enterprise handheld devices are 82.6 percent, compared to 18.2 percent for ruggedized devices.  This information and more is available in Intermec’s white paper, “New Roles, New Rules:  Are Your Smart PhonesTough Enough for Work?”  Read Original Content

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters wants to simplify its Keurig single-cup coffee machines, so has announced a new brewing system which uses RFID technology to identify the type of coffee being used and guide the user through the process.  Read Original Content

The University of Arkansas has opened its RFID Research Center which simulates every aspect of the supply chain, from manufacturing and a distribution center to layouts representing grocery, department and convenience stores.  Read Original Content

Hong Kong Union Hospital has installed an RFID system to enable its pediatric patients to have a better night's sleep and to gain more frequent temperature and vital-sign readings.  Read Original Content