M2M Growth and Enterprise Mobility

I had the privelege of interviewing RACO Wireless President John Horn this week. RACO is an M2M company (machine to machine) that achieved 300 percent growth in 2011.

Here is an interesting statement from John, "Telehealth and telemedicine are really starting to click now.  “Aging in place” enables people to live longer at home.  In 2012 I see this market really starting to connect."  John made this statement in the context of M2M or wireless devices being embedded in healthcare equipment located in the home.  M2M solutions can enable remote caregivers to closely monitor the health of patients in remote locations.  The machines wirelessly sends data to the caregiver so they can be reviewed without forcing the patient to come into the clinic or hospital.

I have been predicting for a couple of years now that enterprise mobility solutions and M2M solutions will be converging.  In the context of Network Centric Operations, it is all wireless data coming in from remote locations that can used to improve real-time decision making.

Additional areas where M2M solutions are really taking off now are in home and business security systems and enterprise asset management environments.  All of these systems send data to a central server for easy monitoring and tracking.

I recorded a video interview with Scott Taylor from Vivint, a home security company, earlier this year in Sydney, Australia on their adoption of mobile solutions and M2M in their home security systems.

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

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Mobile Health News Weekly - Week of January 2, 2012

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to medical mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

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Around 76 percent of small and medium-sized medical and dentals offices plan to purchase tablets in the next year, according to research firm NPD Group’s recently published Third Quarter SMB Technology Report. Read Original Content

Consult a Doctor, a U.S. telemedicine service, has been added to guest services at Marriott Hotels, giving customers the ability to remotely communicate with doctors from hotels around the nation. Read Original Content

The popular health app iTriage announced that it has integrated with Microsoft’s HealthVault to provide users a read-only view of their personal health records. The integration makes HealthVault data viewable via an iPhone app. Read Original Content

Webalo technology eliminates the need for traditional mobile application development tools and custom programming to provide in hours, instead of weeks or months, mobile access to the specific enterprise data and functions that smartphone and tablet users rely on to do their jobs.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Webalo, www.webalo.com.

According to Hospitals and Health Networks’ Most Wired 2011 survey, 27 percent of physician offices and 42 percent of hospitals indicated they are providing telemedicine services. Read Original Content

HTML5 Reflections on 2011 and Trends for 2012

Mobile Analyst's Predictions

I was moderating a panel of mobile analyst in November and asked them what percentage of enterprise mobility applications were going to be written in HTML5 by 2013.  The answers I received were 30-50%. My personal prediction is that it will be even higher, perhaps even 75%.

Flash loses to HTML5


In the war between Flash and HTML5 for mobile video,  Flash lost.  Adobe gave up on Flash in November of 2011 and put its support behind HTML5.
“Layoffs were paired with a halt to development of Flash Player for mobile browsers, with mobile Flash support limited to critical bug fixes and security updates for existing device configurations.”

HTML5-based games included in the article,  “Zynga CTO:Four predictions for 2012”


Games developed using HTML5 are faster, smoother, and more responsive, says Cadir Lee, CTO of Zynga in a December 29, 2011 article for CNET.  One of his predictions for 2012 is that “open web stack will take hold for browser-based games”.


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2012 and the “App Internet”


In the debate about the future of the web, one prediction, from Forrester CEO George Colony, is a new “app internet”, in which HTML5 and JavaScript are two key components.  Dominiek ter Heide, CTO and co-founder of Bottlenose, states that “The combination of HTML, JavaScript and CSS is proven, widely adopted and already available on all of these platforms. When it comes to building apps, HTML5 and JavaScript is here to stay. The Document Web is dying, albeit slowly.”

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The rise of HTML5


Since HTML5 is now supported by all major mobile devices.  Adobe adds (in a November 9, 2011 Adobe blog post), “This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms. We are excited about this, and will continue our work with key players in the HTML community, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and RIM, to drive HTML5 innovation they can use to advance their mobile browsers.”

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Prediction – Hybrid Apps with HTML5 Will be the Norm


From GigaOm’s “16 predictions for mobile in 2012," published on December 30, 2011:  “The standards for HTML5 are still in motion so native apps will continue to be stronger than web-based apps. But as in 2011, many of the native apps on smartphones will use HTML5 as a base with a native wrapper around them. With the number of HTML5 compatible handsets expected by 2013, we’ll see momentum grow for true web apps on low-end phones.”

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

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Mobile Marketing News Weekly - Week of January 2, 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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New projections from research firm Berg Insight suggest the total value of the global mobile marketing and advertising market is on pace for record growth over the next 48 months. According to the latest estimates, the industry will see 37 percent growth by 2016, bringing the industry’s total value to $22.6 billion at that time. Read Original Content

To boost sales of its McCafe beverage line and drive in-store traffic, McDonald's has launched a geotargeted promotion that uses mobile ads to reach potential customers. Read Original Content

Mobile advertising impressions originating from Amazon.com's new Android-powered Kindle Fire tablet continued to increase over the holiday season, surging 261 percent on Christmas Day according to new data published by mobile ad network Millennial Media. Read Original Content

Pyxis Mobile provides an agile, powerful, and secure mobile enterprise application platform.  It enables rapid cross-platform application development, unlimited data integration, enterprise-grade security, and the unique ability to change and update applications in real time.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Pyxis Mobile, http://pyxismobile.com/

According to the Bangkok Post, Thailand will experience a surge in smartphone and tablet shipments during 2012, much greater than original forecasts had predicted. This is expected to increase the opportunities for mobile marketers in that region. Read Original Content

The Best Mobile Strategies Videos of 2011

I must admit that the selection is small, the video production is lacking, and these are all me, but it is the best of my Video Comments on mobile strategies from 2011.  In case you successfully avoided watching these in 2011, I am shamelessly promoting them again in 2012.

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Field Services Velocity

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: 4D Mobile Field Services

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Mobility Without Tactics is Wasted

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Enterprise Mobility and Real Time Decision Making

Kevin Benedict's Video Comments: Mobile Data and the Real Time Enterprise

Video Comments: Mobile Technologies and the Real Time Enterprise

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

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Mobility News Weekly - Week of January 2, 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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The smartphone and tablet buying rush over the holidays spilled over into a corresponding deluge of app downloads, with the total weekly number exceeding one billion for the first time.  Read Original Content

RIM’s share of U.S. mobile phone subscribers in the three months through November dropped to 6.5 percent from 7.1 percent in the previous quarter, according to research firm ComScore Inc.  Read Original Content

According to market research firm NPD Group, the demand for tablets is expected to grow in the small and medium business market, companies with less than 1,000 employees, over the next year with Apple’s iPad taking the lead.  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 - http://www.clicksoftware.com/.

Gartner is forecasting that some 50 percent of traveling workers this year will ditch their laptops in favor of handier devices.  Read Original Content

Mobility Charts Weekly - Week of January 2, 2012

The Mobility Charts Weekly is a weekly publication of charts depicting the current and future status of the enterprise mobility market.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.

comScore recently released new numbers on U.S. online holiday spending for the season-to-date, and found that consumers continued to shop online in record numbers. For the first 56 days of the November to December 2011 holiday season, $35.3 billion was spent online – an increase of 15 percent over the corresponding days last year, and a new record. Read Original Content

Pew Research has recently studied the relationship between per capita income and technology.  In a recent study they found that as a country’s per capita income increased, so did the number of mobile devices and overall usage of social networking. Read Original Content

According to comScore’s latest mobile subscriber data for November, the percentage of users who use apps has finally surpassed the percent of subscribers who turn to a mobile browser. Read Original Content

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of January 2, 2011

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New York Waterway, which carries passengers across the Hudson and East rivers, will launch the first smartphone-based ticketing system for mass transit riders this week. The free app, developed by New York-based Bytemark, allows riders to purchase tickets in advance with an Apple or Android compatible smart device. Read Original Content

Recent predictions suggest that during 2012 there will be 30 to 40 million purchased smartphones enabled with NFC chips. Read Original Content

Juniper Research reports that nearly $55 billion in international remittances will be enabled via mobile devices by 2016. For 2011, it is estimated to be under $12 billion. Read Original Content

Tech Endeavour structures a mobile application as a multi-layered application consisting of user experience, business, and data layers. The mobile application development process starts with definition of the mobile application, understanding key components, learning scenarios where it will be used, learning key patterns and technology considerations as well as identifying specific scenarios such as deployment, power usage and synchronization.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Tech Endeavour, http://www.techendeavour.com/.

KPMG's fifth annual Consumers and Convergence survey has found that 23 percent of U.S. consumers are now "very willing" to use their mobile phones as a wallet and the number rises to 30 percent for younger adults aged between 16 and 34. Read Original Content

The Value in a Mobile Enterprise Solution

Have you ever pondered where the primary value in an enterprise mobility solution resides?  Is it in a smartphone with apps in your pocket or a tablet in your hand?  Is it the wireless connection to the Internet?   Is it the mobile middleware or integration to your back end systems, or is it the back end system?  

I proposed that the core value in an enterprise mobility solution is in the back end systems.  The back end systems are where the business logic, business processes, big data and business analytics are primarily located.  Most enterprise mobility solutions are extending back end systems.  This may seem like an obvious thing, but for many it is not.  Many people feel there is something magical about mobility and that mobile solutions, on their own, offer big value.

Let's think back a few years to when many of us were carrying mobile PDAs (personal digital assistants).  They were mobile and offered some value to us as individuals, but it would be hard to say they revolutionized the enterprise.  At that time, the enterprise's business solutions were rarely extended out to PDAs.  The PDA apps that did connect to back end systems, were mostly limited to synchronizing to a desktop via a docking stations or USB connections.  Back end systems and their value were not being efficiently exposed to mobile workers at that time.  

Today, however, back end systems can be efficiently exposed and made available to the mobile workforce.  It is this capability that can revolutionize a business.  The ability to make the back end system value, available to many more users.

As an increasing number of  enterprise mobility vendors enter the market, the ability to design, develop, deploy and maintain a mobile solution rapidly becomes a commodity.  The core value of a mobile solution moves from the the mobile app into the back end system again.  What does this mean?  It means the aggregation of data, business logic, business processes and analytics in a back end system designed to support the mobile workforce is where the biggest value is located.

Once the ability to implement mobile solutions is achieved, enterprises moving up the mobility maturity curve will turn their focus to providing more back end system functionality to support mobile solutions.  Mobility vendors that want to have longevity in the mobility market will recognize this trend and devote much of their R&D to building solutions that integrate and aggregate business logic, data sources, business processes and analytics into unique and usable services that support mobile workers and their different roles.

Enterprise mobility solutions provide the means to deliver back end system value to mobile workers. Do you agree or disagree?

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

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Join the SAP Enterprise Mobility and Sybase Unwired Platform Groups

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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.

Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of January 2, 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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General contractors and builders at more than 30 construction sites within the United States are employing an RFID-enabled solution to track the number of workers on those sites, as well as their identities. Read Original Content

Global enterprises are shifting to mobile-only communications faster than expected, according to the BroadSoft 2011 Mobile Enterprise of the Future Survey. Read Original Content

TomTom vehicle management solutions have grown 30 percent yearly and now represent the largest fleet telematics provider in the Europe region. 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. http://www.syclo.com/.

GAO RFID has recently released a rugged RFID scanner that allows livestock owners to more easily track and manage animals throughout farmland. Read Original Content