Mobile Expert Video Series: Steve Russell

In this interview DSI's mobility expert and military strategy buff Steve Russell and I discuss a shared view that the military can teach the commercial sector a lot about the value of mobility, and how it can transform the way companies operate.

 http://youtu.be/3AjiRzmdueU

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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.

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Puneet Suppal

This week I am attending Oracle OpenWorld and guess who I met there?  SAP's mobility and Hana expert Puneet Suppal!  "Surprise, surprise, surprise," as Gomer Pile used to say.  In this interview I ask Puneet to share his thoughts on Oracle's conference, and to explain how SAP's Hana works with enterprise mobility solutions.

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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 30, 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 a new report from Pike Research, worldwide sales of smart appliances will climb rapidly over the remainder of this decade, reaching just under 45 million units per year in 2020. Read Original Content

The global machine-to-machine wireless network services market is expected to grow 29.4 percent per year through 2015, according to a report by research firm TechNavio. Read Original Content

The International Telecommunications Union has predicted there will be as staggering 25 billion devices online by 2020 as the Internet of things revolution takes off. 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 worldwide market for smart grid data analytics will grow steadily through 2020, with cumulative worldwide spending from 2012 through 2020 totaling just over $34 billion, according to a report from Pike Research. Read Original Content

According to the Metering Europe event director the true value of the global smart grid market is expected to be $100 billion by 2020.  Read Original Content

The smart metering market in Southeast Asia will reach $6.9 billion by 2022, according to a new study released today by Northeast Group. Read Original Content

China's smart grid components market is seen to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 6 percent between 2011 and 2021 reaching $1.43 trillion, SBI Energy says in a market study. Read Original Content

Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of September 30, 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.

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Data collection for agriculture and fisheries in a region of the Philippines has gone high tech with a new project using GPS technology to help paint a more complete picture of the area’s agriculture map.  Read Original Content

A number of smartphone manufacturers are producing NFC-enabled phones, with Apple noticeably absent from the group.  Read Original Content

The Handheld Group has unveiled a new rugged smartphone, the Nautiz X1, what the company calls “the toughest smartphone ever built”.  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.

RFID and NFC technologies have been used frequently in 2012 at events as a way to engage the event attendees.  The use and benefits of the technologies at three recent events are highlighted in this article in BizBash, “How R.F.I.D. Bracelets Can Connect Guests and Add Sponsor Value”.  Read Original Content

Barcoding Inc. and Marlin Steel Wire Products have formed a partnership to create RFID-tagged steel fabrications to automate inventory tracking and protect high value items throughout the materials handling process.  Read Original Content

According to IBM, 90 percent of all data is less than two years old, which means 10 times as much data is in storage today as existed two years ago – an increase of 900 percent.  Put another way, 10 times as much data is in storage today as existed two years ago.  Read Original Content

An RFID-based solution at Eurofresh Farms in Arizona helped employees increase their productivity by between 200 and 250 percent.  Read Original Content

Trends in Enterprise Mobility October 2012

I have had a hunch for a while that has been confirmed by a number of recent interviews with leading enterprise mobility vendors.  It seems that as enterprise mobility rises as a priority within companies, and becomes a CEO/CIO issue rather than a line of business issue, ERP and back office application considerations start to dominate the discussion and focus.

These boardroom level discussions change the buying process for enterprise mobility.  Mobile solutions used to be considered at the line of business level, where a small group of business process experts could select what they considered best of breed. Today, in many enterprises, mobility is too important to be just a line of business decision.  The stakeholder numbers have swelled and the length of selling cycles for enterprise mobility solutions has also lengthened as a result.

Standardization is starting to dominate large enterprise mobility discussions.  The standardization of mobile middleware, mobile app development tools, security and integration with ERPs and other back office apps.  This trend makes the choices that SAP made over the past few years look very smart, or I guess it could also be interpreted as a self-fulfilling prophecy.  SAP said these are the things that are most important, and after a couple of years beating that drum the market now agrees.

This week I am attending the Oracle Open World conference.  I will be very interested to learn how Oracle is treating enterprise mobility this year.  They have been too quiet.  Stay tuned as I report, blog and tweet from San Francisco this week at OOW.  It you aren't already following me on Twitter, I invite you to do so.  My Twitter handle is @krbenedict.

Convergence in the enterprise mobility industry is happening now.  I can see mobility vendors rethinking strategies and moving resources around to support these new trends.

On the topic of trends, my most recent analyst report titled Mid-Year Enterprise Mobility Survey 2012 is now available free here http://kony.com/mid-year-enterprise-mobility-survey-2012-10.

I will be reviewing this report in a webinar on Thursday, October 4th at 1 PM ET.  I hope you can join me!  Register here!

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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.