Mobile Expert Video Series: Graham Robinson

I always love catching up with SAP Mentor and Founder of Yelcho Systems Consulting, Graham Robinson.  This time I catch him in Brisbane, Australia at the Mastering Enterprise Mobility with SAP event where I am speaking on mobile strategies.  In this interview he shares his thoughts and advice on mobile application development.

Video Link: http://youtu.be/vHfin3FlBxU

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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

Mobile Expert Video Series: Corey Adams

I was able to catch up with a new SAP Mentor, Corey Adams this week in Brisbane, Australia at the Mastering Enterprise Mobility with SAP conference.  Corey is a BI Team Leader for Frucor Inc, a non-alcoholic beverage and energy drink company.  In this interview he shares how using mobile BI solutions on iPads have provided Frucor with competitive advantages.  Enjoy!

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz5xm0RTcxM

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of November 4, 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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SuperGeo Technologies has announced plans to launch mobile survey GIS SuperSurv 3.1 at the end of 2012.  SuperSurv integrates GIS and GPS technologies to enable Android users to collect spatial data.  Read Original Content

Honeywell Scanning & Mobility has unveiled the Dolphin 70e Black, a rugged hybrid device designed for fieldwork.  Read Original Content

Arlington Cemetery has released a new geospatial interactive map available as a free smartphone app and on the Arlington Cemetery website.  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.

Community Transit in Washington State is planning an upgrade to its bus system, equipping its buses with a GPS system that will provide information for riders and help buses run more efficiently.  Read Original Content

According to reports, the new iPad Mini device’s Wi-Fi version does not include built-in GPS.  Read Original Content

Motion Computing will host a series of webinars during the month of November discussing field mobility and point-of-service trends.  Read Original Content

The commercial geospatial market is delivering technologies to mobile users in numerous industries quicker and more efficiently.  The Frost & Sullivan report “Analysis of the U.S. Defense Geospatial Market - Focus Shifts from Products to Tools and Services” explores the U.S. defense geospatial market from 2011 to 2017.  Read Original Content

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has implemented a new GIS data integration solution that will automatically integrate and update data from multiple sources and produce interactive, portable and intelligent maps and imagery.  Read Original Content

Cummings Engineering Consultants and Ascent Rugged Mobile have developed the SAIFE Defender, a rugged mobile Android device with interoperable secure communications capabilities.  Read Original Content

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Manik Saha

I had the honor of meeting with SAP's Head of Global IT Processes, Manik Saha.  I spent time with him in both Aukland, New Zealand and in Brisbane, Australia over the past few days.  In fact we will both be speaking in Sydney and in Melbourne this week before he returns to Singapore and I return to Boise, Idaho.  Manik  is speaking on the subject of SAP Runs SAP Mobility.  In this interview he shares his thoughts on development trends and methodologies for mobile solutions.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWGXaPK6A5o

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5 - Week of October 28, 2012

Quantas Freight has launched its new HTML5-based mobile app and mobile site for smartphones.  Read Original Content

Phineas Barnes, in the article “HTML5 Is the Real Loser In The iPhone Maps Fiasco” in Business Insider, believes that the native app experience is much better than web apps and HTML5 comes out the loser.  Read Original Content

QNX Software Systems has announced the HTML SDK, an extension of the open source BlackBerry WebWorks framework, specially optimized for automotive environments.  Read Original Content

Apple has purchased Particle, an HTML5 web and web app design firm that has done HTML5 work for Google, Motorola, Amazon, Yahoo, Sony, and Apple.  Read Original Content

Christian Heilmann of Mozilla believes developers shouldn’t abandon HTML5 - even with bumps along the road, as the benefits of HTML5 will ultimately prove worthwhile.  Read Original Content

Mobile social game company Gree has launched a new open-source tool for creating Unity - and HTML5-based smartphone apps with Flash content.  Read Original Content

Developer Eran Zinman of Conduit shares his “real life experience” with “Native, HTML5, and Hybrid Mobile App Development”.  Read Original Content

 The DevCon5 HTML5 Developers and Design Conference will be held November 27-29, 2012 in San Francisco and will feature leading HTML5 developers, engineers and evangelists.  For conference information, go to http://www.html5report.com/conference/california/.  Read Original Content

InfoWorld highlights “7 Apps Making the Most of HTML5” illustrating how to make the most of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS.  Read Original Content

Oracle has released its Application Development Framework Mobile, an HTML5 and Java-based framework to enable developers to build, deploy and extend enterprise applications for mobile environments from a single code base.  Read Original Content

Cookeatshare.com is developing a free HTML5-based site for iOS and Android devices.  Read Original Content

Mike James describes how to utilize HTML5’s Media Capture API when creating web apps in this article in i-programmer.  Read Original Content

Microsoft‘s HTML 5-based Office Web Apps are now live and available through SkyDrive and Outlook.com.  The new web apps have been fine-tuned to work properly with the final version of Internet Explorer 10, Windows 8 and iOS 6.  Read Original Content

According to LongTail Video’s “State of HTML5 Video”, 79 percent of the market can now play HTML5 video.  Read Original Content

Jeff Corbin of theIRapp outlines why he feels HTML5 misses the mark in mobile investor relations strategies in his whitepaper “Investor Relations (IR) Apps: Native or HTML5?”  Read Original Content

“Mobile applications and HTML5” are number two on Gartner’s list of the top ten strategic technology trends for 2013, and one of the assumptions by year end 2014 is that HTML5 will be the “mainstream enterprise app vehicle”.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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

Mobile Expert Video Series: Mike Hopkins

I had the privilege of speaking on mobile strategies in Brisbane, Australia today at the Mastering Enterprise Mobility with SAP conference.  While attending the conference, I met Mike Hopkins, with Mobile Asset Management at the Department of Conservation in New Zealand.  He has been involved in a number of mobile application projects and was kind enough to share the lessons he learned with us.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN9xpmwaw90

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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

Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of November 4, 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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Japan’s NTT Docomo has unveiled a real-time translator app for Android devices that will convert Japanese to English, Mandarin and Korean.  Translations to French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai will be added later in November.  Read Original Content

With an influx of new users due to low-priced handsets and low call rates, China Mobile has posted a 1.3 percent gain in third-quarter net profit.  Read Original Content

Due to the rapid commercialization of 4G cellular wireless standards and the increasing number of 3G network deployments, the wireless test equipment market in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand is predicted to grow at a rapid pace.  The market earned revenues of over $312.8 million in 2011 and is forecasted to reach $921.1 million in 2017.  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.

Results of a Visa and research firm TNS survey of Web users in Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea and Vietnam revealed that 40 percent of those responding viewed product information on the Internet via smartphones and tablets during 2012.  Read Original Content

According to a new Strategy Analytics Mobile Workforce Strategies report, there are many more companies now in China, India and Brazil open to a mobile workforce, and trends indicate that more businesses are investing in mobile devices and solutions to enable productivity and efficiency of their workforce.  Read Original Content

Asia has seen a 192.5 percent increase in mobile Internet traffic since 2010, with China leading the way.  Read Original Content

Globe Telecom has partnered with China Mobile Hong Kong and will soon partner with Korea’s SK Telecom to provide LTE data roaming services.  Read Original Content

RIM executives have stated Indonesia will be one of the first markets to receive the latest BlackBerry 10 and a new version of BlackBerry Messenger. RIM has 56 percent of the smartphone market in Indonesia.  Read Original Content

Gartner's New 2012 Magic Quadrant for Field Services

Have you seen the new 2012 magic quadrant on field services from Gartner?  It is quite strange.  SAP is listed in the bottom left even after the Syclo acquisition?  I thought Syclo was all about mobile enterprise asset management which is very closely aligned with field services (think preventative maintenance and repairs).

ClickSoftware, however, is listed far above everyone else in the top right quadrant.  The strange part is that SAP resells ClickSoftware's solutions as the SAP Workforce Scheduling and Optimization solution and it utilizes the SAP Mobility Platform.  What a small world we all live in.  It seems the Gartner analysis is less about the technology, and more about how it is positioned in the market.  I say that because you can get the same solution from both companies yet they are far apart on the MQ.

My analysis is that field services is much more than just a mobile app platform.  It includes dynamic scheduling, rostering, forecasting, time sheets, planning, etc.   Mobility is simply extending and enhancing the power of those solutions.  Without those connected back-office solutions, mobility loses much of its value.  That is how I interpret the MQ.  What about you?

More pondering... This must present a real dilemma for SAP sales folks selling into field services opportunities.  Should they sell their prospects the SAP Workforce Scheduling and Optimization solution by ClickSoftware, which is on their price list and listed in the very top right Gartner MQ for Field Services and sits on top of the SAP Mobility Platform, or should they sell their prospects just SAP Mobility Platform which is listed in the bottom left.  Yikes!  That is going to require some strategy.

In a timely but coincidental note, I will be joining Stewart Hill from ClickSoftware at 11 AM EST on November 13th to present a webinar titled, "Using Mobile Technology to Drive Business Visibility and Real-time Decision Making."  What a fun subject!!!  I invite you to join the discussion by registering here.
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of October 28, 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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TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Mobile Health Application market to grow at an annual rate of 40.4 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is increasing adoption of smartphones and social networking sites. Read Original Content

The use of mobile health tools will become more widespread, but barriers, such as security issues and a lack of best practices remain, according to a report from Frost & Sullivan. Read Original Content

Mobile health tools are helping socially disadvantaged citizens with diabetes around the world better manage their condition, a report from the non-profit group eHealth Initative says. 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 increasing variety of mobile health apps are now available to European patients in their local languages. PatientView’s European Directory of Health Apps 2012-2012 contains mobile apps across 62 health specialties and features apps in 32 different European languages. Read Original Content

To better serve the elderly at home as well as patients requiring remote monitoring outside of hospital and nursing home environments, AT&T last week announced it will provide mobile Internet capabilities for Embedded Wireless' Zilant Wellness Remote Monitoring Platform and mobile personal emergency response system. Read Original Content

Mobile health company LGTmedical has announced plans to launch a signal-processing platform to enable vital-sign monitoring using smartphones, tablets and laptops. Read Original Content

The use of telemedicine helped a primary care clinic more than double the percentage of diabetic patients undergoing screening for retinopathy over the course of a year, according to a research letter published this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine. 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.

A mobile application that enables health professionals to make evidence-based decisions on students’ health while on-the-go was launched by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization this week, during the Ninth Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information. Read Original Content

A new mobile health application allows consumers to use any smartphone camera to measure their heart rate in real time. The Cardio Buddy app, developed by consumer health company Azumio, utilizes a smartphone camera to detect a user's heart rate in real-time based on changes in facial coloration. Read Original Content

A new iPhone app developed at the University of Michigan enables athletes with concussions to track their injuries, symptoms, activities, and then to share that information via e-mail with physicians, coaches and trainers. Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for SMAC, Cognizant

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of October 28, 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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Apple could double the number of iPads it has sold to date in 2013 alone, with close to 200 million iPhones sold in the same upcoming 12 month period, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley.  Read Original Content

Global mobile phone vendors shipped a total of 445.7 million units in the third quarter of 2012, compared to 434.1 million units in the third quarter of 2011, according to latest statistics from International Data Corporation.  Read Original Content

Japan's Panasonic has said it will end its brief return to the European smartphone market, pulling out less than a year after launching its first handset outside of Japan since 2005.  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.

Microsoft has unveiled its two official Windows smartphones from Nokia and HTC, plus a third from Samsung at its Windows Phone 8 launch event. It also unveiled a host of never-before-seen features that it hopes will pull people away from their iPhones and Android devices and towards Microsoft.  Read Original Content

Last week ZTE told analysts after it reported weak third-quarter earnings that it expects to sell 25 million smartphones in 2012, 10 million fewer than it had initially forecast. ZTE sold around 15 million smartphones in 2011.  Read Original Content

According to the India Mobile Handsets Market Review report released by research firm CyberMedia Research, the smartphone market has grown to 5.50 million units in the first half of 2012.  Read Original Content

ERICSSON, the Swedish telecoms company, is calling on software developers living in sub-Saharan Africa to write applications targeting urban areas in Africa.  Read Original Content

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said that while she does not expect her company to release a smartphone until 2014 at the earliest, HP will be a major force in the tablet and mobile PC markets.  Read Original Content

According to a report from Korea Investment & Securities, Samsung is expected to sell 284 million units globally, giving the company a 37 percent share of the worldwide smartphone market in 2013, over Apple's 20.4 percent to 157 million units.  Read Original Content