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What Does Research Say Is the Competitive Advantage of Data?

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:00:00 EDT

Mobile Marketing, Business Analytics and Code Halos

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:00:02 EDT

In an article I published earlier this week, Digital Transformation, Code Halos, Analytics and Mobility, I provided an overview of the concept of Code Halo™. The idea is that nearly all organizations, brands, products and people are surrounded by a halo of data. Companies that recognize the value of code halos will develop new business models and IT systems to utilize these code halos to better engage with customers and prospects, deliver more relevant content and employ precision marketing and support campaigns based upon known interests and desires.

Today I want to explore the role of mobile marketing and how it relates to code halos. First, let's review the four basic elements of a "logistics of information" system that can derive value from code halos:

There must be effective data collection strategies - Often in the form of mobile apps, loyalty programs and online commerce sites that enable a customer to opt-in to various programs, campaigns and deals and share their personal preferences. This is how you begin to collect and harvest useful data from your customers' code halos.
The system must uniquely identify and recognize a user. This identification is associated with a code halo. This recognition enables the IT and e-commerce systems to customize and personalize content, which provides a more relevant and positive experience for the customer.
The ability to recognize patterns, find meanings, and to spark new ideas and innovation by analyzing, comparing and combining multiple code halos is another important development. Here is an example - Store number 2 recognizes that a sub-set of their customers all share similar code halos - which includes product preferences, lifestyles, demographics and buying habits. Store number 2 also closely analyzes the code halos of their suppliers' products, brands and target customer profiles. As a result, Store number 2 can introduce new marketing campaigns and products that very closely align with the preferences and tastes of their individual customers and sub-sets of customers.
Each campaign or program roll-out is continually analyzed and optimized to improve precision and future results.

Point number one above is effective data collection strategies. In an age of digital transformation, data collection can often be facilitated via mobile apps, social networking analysis and e-commerce/shopping sites. Mobile apps have the added luxury of being location aware. Location, preferences, searches, shared opinions, buying history, time of day, etc., can all be collected via mobile app interaction and added to your code halo.

Analyzing a code halo, however, does not drive value or provide a competitive advantage. The analysis should result in personalized content being sent to the mobile app of the customer or prospect. This precision marketing, based on analyzed code halo data, will as a result, drive an increase in sales and company value.

The three biggest challenges now for companies are:

Recognize code halos and implement business strategies to utilize them.
Implement a logistics of information system to manage and utilize code halo processes.
Spark innovation by comparing and combining various code halos and the resulting insights.
Utilize the analysis of code halos in ways that add value to your company.

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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (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.

SMAC News Weekly – Week of June 16, 2013

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:00:06 EDT

Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week.

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Latin America's largest enterprise software company, TOTVS, invested 20 million dollars in the latest venture round of GoodData in a move that highlights how cloud big data and analytics will play a significant role in the region. Read Original Content

Researchers estimate that 90 percent of the data in the world will be unstructured by 2015, the year when the digital universe is expected to hit the eight zettabytes mark. With these figures in mind, it becomes apparent why 90 percent of CIOs plan to incorporate Big Data into their organizations’ processes and strategy, according to HP. Read Original Content

According to a study commissioned by Hitachi Data Systems, 75 percent of UK organizations are currently investing in big data analytics, and 80 percent of these are deploying solutions. But as many as 60 percent of those investing in big data projects agreed that they do not have the data center infrastructure in place to analyze up-to-the-minute information across all their data sets. Read Original Content

While social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies add a new dimension to your model, to fully maximize their value consider the sum is greater than its parts. The formula for the Future of Work is called SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud on one integrated stack, where each function enables another to maximize their effect. To learn more about SMAC and Cognizant please visit http://www.cognizant.com/futureofwork/smac. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Cognizant.

Cloud Print adds another arrow to your mobile office arsenal. Google has released a free Android app for Cloud Print that enables you to print from any Android device with a Cloud Print connected printer. Read Original Content

According to Gartner, a trend to look for this year is IT departments at large companies taking on the role of brokers of cloud services for their employers. Read Original Content

At its annual Discover technology conference HP released its new HP Cloud OS, an operating system designed to provide a common environment for public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Read Original Content

There are currently about 50 million enterprise users of cloud office systems, which represent only eight percent of overall office system users (excluding China and India), according to a study by Gartner. Read Original Content

The enterprise collaboration software and services market will reach a "tipping point" in two years as cloud-based collaboration software-as-a-service revenue surpasses on-premise software revenue, predicts research firm Strategy Analytics. Read Original Content

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

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M2M News Weekly – Week of June 16, 2013

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:00:11 EDT

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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Government agencies should be posting emergency information in open M2M formats and sharing it with search engine sites to more quickly disseminate it to the public in times of crisis, Matthew Stepka, Google vice president of technology for social impact, told a House Homeland Security subcommittee last week. Read Original Content

According to Frost & Sullivan, security must be a core component of an enterprise's deployment of machine-to-machine communications because the rapid adoption of M2M by enterprises opens them up to increased security risks because traditional M2M products do not have enough security built into them to satisfy future enterprise security requirements. Read Original Content

As part of a federal energy program to modernize how homes and businesses across the United States can use energy more efficiently, more than 27 million smart meters have already been installed throughout the country. 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.

Smart grid expenditure in South America will cumulatively reach $49.8 billion by 2023, allocated across the five segments of advanced metering infrastructure, distribution automation, wide area measurement, home energy management, and information technology, according to a new study from Northeast Group. Read Original Content

A survey of 2,000 households conducted by Energy Saving Trust found that 73 percent of those surveyed would welcome smart meters into their homes. Another 45 percent would be curious to see how their energy consumption compares to their neighbors’, though that technology is not yet available. Read Original Content

According to a recent consumer survey from Navigant Research, favorable attitudes toward the concept of the smart grid in general, and toward smart meters in particular, increased noticeably in 2012. Forty-one percent of the consumers surveyed have a "favorable" or "very favorable" attitude toward smart grid and smart meters. Read Original Content

DiGi Telecommunications is to implement the Ericsson Device Connection Platform, delivered as a service by Ericsson. The solution will provide DiGi and its customers with everything they need to deploy, manage and monetize millions of machine-to-machine and consumer-electronics devices. Read Original Content

Telecom Italia has become the fourth European operator to join the Global M2M Association, a collaborative program founded by Deutsche Telekom and Orange (then France Telecom) in February 2011. Read Original Content

ORBCOMM has announced the availability of the ORBCOMM GT 1100, a self-powered M2M asset tracking and monitoring device targeted for a variety of global markets including transportation and logistics, heavy equipment and oil and gas. Read Original Content

Smart grid technologies are expected to help UK Power Networks save £135 million on the cost of distributing electricity between 2015 and 2023. Read Original Content

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Staying Awake with Workforce Management

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

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Digital Transformation, Code Halos, Analytics and Mobility

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:30:07 EDT

A retailers' mantra throughout history has been location, location location. This is always important, but perhaps of less value than other innovations caused by digital transformations today. The ongoing digital transformation of many industries has created new competitive playing fields that are increasingly related to data. The winners are those that can more quickly collect, analyze, report, make data driven decisions and capture value from the data.

The data that surrounds customers, partners, companies and individuals is called "code halos™" by my colleagues at the Center for the Future of Work in their new whitepaper Code Rules. It is their analysis that companies that understand and manage code halos most effectively will be the winners in their industries.

Let me paint two scenes for you.

1) A brick and mortar retail operation is located on Main street, advertises in the local newspaper and via the Yellow Pages. Greets their anonymous customers at the door with a cheerful "hello" and waves goodbye when they purchase their products from the store. The store does not know or track their customers' names, preferences or the products they purchase.

2) A brick and mortar retail operation recognizes the value of being on Main street, but also in having a strong web and mobile presence, tracking their customers via loyalty and opt-in online/mobile marketing campaigns and providing customized experiences and marketing that meet the preferences of each individual customer based on collected and analyzed data. As a result, they have mobile apps, websites and enable customers to document their preferences, likes and favorites. Each customer has an account that enables the retail store to see their personal details and track their purchases, interests and buying habits, etc. The retailer analyzes the data, and then provides a customized and personal buying and marketing experience for them.

This is a simple illustration of the differences in how retail companies may engage their customers before and after they recognize the value of code halos. Store number 2 recognizes that each customer has a code halo of data about their demographics, buying habits, history, preferences, neighborhoods, lifestyles, etc. Store number 2 collects the data and uses the data to improve their marketing and customer engagements, while store number 1 does not. Which store do you think is going to be more competitive? I believe store number 2.

In most military organizations today, they believe the effective use of data or the "Fifth Dimension" of warfare is critical. The first four dimensions are land, sea, air and space. Recently the fifth dimension has been added to emphasize that organizations and nations must now learn to effectively use data defensively and offensively in times of conflict. Military organizations, much like companies in the commercial sector, must now compete in the fifth dimension and the management of code halos.

Recognizing the importance of code halos and the fifth dimension of warfare is not enough, however. Organizations must employ what is called a "logistics of information" systems capable of supporting a competitive environment. This is not easy. Store number 1 mentioned earlier does not have a code halo strategy or the logistics of information system in place to be competitive. They are not even capable of putting a team on the field.

What must be included in order to successfully employ an effective "logistics of information" system that can process and utilize code halos? Let me list a few:

Effective data collection strategies - often in the form of mobile apps, loyalty programs and online commerce sites that enable a customer to opt-in to various programs, campaigns, preferences and deals. This is how you begin to add to and harvest useful data from your customers' code halos.
The ability to recognize a unique customer, their code halos and to cater to their preferences and customize their marketing and buying experiences based on analyzed data.
The ability to recognize patterns, find meaning and to spark new ideas and innovation by analyzing multiple code halos is valuable. Here is an example - Store number 2 recognizes that a sub-set of their customers' all share similar code halos - product preferences, lifestyles, demographics and buying habits. Store number 2 also has visibility into the code halos of their suppliers' products, brands and target customer profiles. As a result, Store number 2 can introduce new marketing campaigns and products that very closely align with the preferences and tastes of their individual customers and sub-sets of customers.
Following each marketing campaign or program roll-out, the data is analyzed and optimized to improve precision and future results.

These four steps require an effective "information logistics" system. Do you have it?

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

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Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of June 16, 2013

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:00:07 EDT

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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Waste disposal company Republic Services combines GIS and other public data in an advanced auditing service to give cities and counties a more accurate count of the number of units the company serves for them. Read Original Content

RFID technology is enabling amputees to program their prosthetic hands – swiping a wristband reader installed in the prosthesis with an RFID chip programmed to open the hand, for example. Read Original Content

Getac and mobile device management firm SOTI have formed a partnership that will provide Getac customers an MDM solution for the Z710 rugged Android tablet device. 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.

GPS World is presenting a free webinar, “Nightmare on GIS Street: GNSS Accuracy, Datums and Geospatial Data”, to be held June 20 at 10 a.m. PDT. The webinar takes a look at “the challenge of dealing with horizontal datums in your GIS”. Read Original Content

Samsung announced the Galaxy S 4 Active, a smartphone designed for rugged situations. The new device features a heavier and thicker case which keeps dust out and enables the smartphone to be submerged underwater more than three feet for up to a half hour. Read Original Content

IBM is using a modified version of the Roomba vacuum-cleaning robot to plot temperature and humidity patterns in its data centers and, with the aid of RFID tags, to automatically keep track of equipment. Read Original Content

Xplore Technologies is introducing the iX104C5-M2 rugged tablet computer for military and government applications. The device has an integrated common access card reader to improve information security for military personnel, has an Intel Core i7 processor and is Windows 8 compatible. Read Original Content

ThinkGeo released a new version of the Map Suite line of GIS software components for .NET developers. Version 7.0 includes enhancements to geometric functions resulting in increased processing speeds, accuracy, and reliability. Free trial downloads are available at http://thinkgeo.com/download/. Read Original Content

Researchers at the U.K.’s University of Derby have begun a number of RFID-based projects focusing on identifying business opportunities for the use of RFID. Read Original Content

Airbus has developed a prototype “smart” bag that comes with a companion iPhone app and a “Find My Bag” function to locate lost luggage. An RFID chip inside the bag enables it to work with automated airport and airline baggage-handling systems which can “pair” smart chipped bag tags with a passenger’s itinerary and frequent flyer number. Read Original Content

GPS technology aided by the use of drones for aerial photography may take much of the time-consuming effort out of replanting forests. A new tree planting concept utilizing GPS could bring a 50 percent increase in efficiency within ten years. Read Original Content

Google has acquired the navigation and traffic app Waze. The free mobile app solicits input from users to improve directions and display traffic and road-hazard details. Read Original Content

Armored transportation and security services provider Dunbar Armored implemented a rugged handheld mobile barcoding solution, which reduced time from each stop on the route. Information is automatically uploaded at the end of each driver’s shift, simplifying backend operations. Read Original Content

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan on the global passive RFID market reveals the market earned revenues of more than $2.98 billion in 2012 and is forecast to reach $11.58 billion in 2018. Read Original Content

The Department of Homeland Security's Geospatial Management Office has selected BAE Systems to provide geospatial imagery and analysis for real-time intelligence products. The data collected will be used to produce real-time intelligence products to support a variety of DHS missions, including emergency management of natural and manmade disasters. Read Original Content

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

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Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of June 16, 2013

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:29:00 EDT

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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The market value of China's Internet of things is forecast to be worth $122 billion by 2015. The Internet of things and RFID markets in the country are poised for expansion over the coming months and years, according to experts speaking at the recent China International Internet of Things Expo. Read Original Content

Tim Dillon, research director for Asia-Pacific at Current Analysis, believes BYOD is a "distraction" that prevents enterprises from thinking clearly about mobility. He states the rapid growth of smart device activations, the huge size of the market, and the young population base in the Asia Pacific region is fueling the move of enterprises toward mobility. Read Original Content

Indian telecom services provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Dimension Data have partnered to launch Enterprise Cloud Services in India. Read Original Content

AnyPresence is a mobile development platform that reduces the time and cost of mobile-enabling enterprise business processes, products, and services. It offers organizations the ability to assemble and deploy backend servers, native iOS, native Android, and HTML5 mobile web apps without platform "lock-in". This newsletter is sponsored in part by AnyPresence.

The Australia 2013 Enterprise Mobility Report from Frost & Sullivan reveals that of the small sample of CIO’s surveyed about what operating system they think users will want in the next 12 to 18 months, 41 percent picked Apple’s iOS, 23 percent chose Android, 21 percent for Microsoft Windows phone, and six percent selected BlackBerry’s OS. Read Original Content

Australia’s BlinkMobile Interactive, a mobile enterprise application platform provider, continues its international expansion with the appointment of distributors in both Brazil and South Africa. Read Original Content

The NCS SURF Emerging Technology Index shows Singapore companies scored 55.1 out of 100 for the Digital Engagement Maturity Index, which considers mobile, social and online applications of service. The country scored 55.5 for the Information Maturity Index. Read Original Content

According to a technology news report by the Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, Android represents over 50 percent of the smartphones used within the Chinese mobile market space. Read Original Content

China's Lenovo Group is reportedly in discussions on a smartphone venture with Japan’s NEC Corporation. Read Original Content

PayPal Australia is working with Australian utility companies to provide billing solutions to improve the efficiency and timeliness of bill payments. The partnership will enable customers to pay their bills via PayPal online and on mobile. Read Original Content

According to PwC’s Digital IQ Survey, Indian companies are investing heavily in social networks, mobile computing, analytics and cloud computing. The survey reveals 40 percent of Indian companies are investing in adopting mobile technologies for customers. Read Original Content

Cisco’s Visuals Networking Index forecast (2012-17) predicts that by 2017, Wi-Fi and mobile services will account for 53 percent of the Internet traffic in India. Read Original Content

According to reports, Ethiopia will sign agreements with China’s ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies within the next month to expand its mobile phone infrastructure. Read Original Content

Voice technology firm Audience has formed a partnership with China Mobile. As part of the arrangement, Audience will help China Mobile improve voice recognition technology in its upcoming line of smartphones. Read Original Content

Amazon has set up a website, Amazon.in, in India, but will follow Indian government rules and will not sell on the site, but will offer sales and order fulfillment services to Indian retailers. Read Original Content

To boost transactions and e-commerce growth in Malaysia, Rakuten Malaysia extended a series of mobile social properties on Rakuten Online Shopping. Read Original Content

The Australian National University has added augmented reality technology to its mobile application. The user points the device around in 360 degree navigation and, using GPS technology, they can find where buildings are in relation to them. Read Original Content

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

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What Does Research Say is the Competitive Advantage of Data?

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:41:17 EDT

The explosion of mobile devices, e-commerce and "The Internet of Things" is introducing massive amounts of new data into our ecosystem. Some companies ignore this data for all but the most tactical explorations, but others are revolutionizing entire industries by recognizing the value of this data and taking advantage of it.

My colleague, Ben Pring, has been conducting a lot of research this year on the impact of business analytics, big data and other fast emerging business strategies on a company's ability to compete. In this guest post Ben shares his latest findings.

What one key characteristic separates today’s high-flying outperformers – such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Netflix and Pandora – from fast-followers, wannabes, and laggards? It’s a precision focus on the information that surrounds people, organizations, products and processes – what we call Code Halos ™ – to build new business and commercial models. These leading companies have realized that the data – or Code Halo – that accompanies people, organizations and devices contains a richness of business insight that far outstrips the value of physical assets that have historically underpinned market leadership. Conversely, companies that have missed or misunderstood the Code Halo phenomena are now struggling to cope in markets that are moving at warp speed; some, in fact, have already succumbed.

We are in the early stages of an exciting and important new era in which Code Halos radically reshape the rules of business competition. Built on the SMAC Stack ™ (social + mobile + analytics + cloud technologies), Code Halos are being harnessed to help enterprises advance from old-world industrial models (premised on physical assets) to new structures informed by by digits. Our study of Code Halos, in fact, reveals a new “crossroads” that businesses across industry must navigate to achieve sustained market prosperity and avoid what we call an “extinction event.”

From Personal to Business Code Halos

Each one of us is creating our Code Halo with every click or swipe of our phone, tablet, laptop, Glass, Nest, FuelBand, dashboard, or other smart device. Every transaction we make, every “like” we record, every preference we note, is building a digital fingerprint of who we are and what makes us tick. Our Code Halos, which have been building and deepening as more and more of our lives have become digitized, contain a multiplicity of attributes that reveal our likes, dislikes and behaviors, from recommendations of great new books to personalized radio stations that play our favorite songs, many of which haven’t left their CD cases for a million years.

The Code Halos that exist around individuals are unlocking incredible new value for all of us and for the companies that we do business with. But the Code Halo story doesn’t end in the consumer world. More and more smart companies are realizing that the concept of Code Halos isn’t confined to (relatively) simple B2C activities, such as book selling or online music. Instead, they’re recognizing that their very organizations have a Code Halo and that within their organizations they have hundreds, thousands, millions of Code Halos, made up of every digital interaction with every smart device they touch across “the Internet of Things” (all of which of course have their own Code Halos).

This realization is sending profound shock waves through board rooms, as forward-thinking business and technology leaders begin to see the impact that the management – or mismanagement of Code Halos – has on corporate fates. In fact, many are now coming to grips with Code Halo intersections and how they can impact every meaningful aspect of their business operations, from design, to production, to selling, to talent management.

Winning in the New Code Rush

Whether it be the hipster in San Francisco using Square Wallet on his morning latte run or the engineering conglomerate getting its turbines to Tweet or the Singaporean government establishing its homeland as a “living analytics” test bed, the leverage of Code Halo thinking is making businesses big and small think about how the code they generate can collide with the code generated by other people, devices, and organizations. And, perhaps more importantly, how this data can be mined to create new products and services that are genuinely innovative.

To learn more about Code Halos, download our white paper at unevenlydistributed.com.

Ben Pring co-leads Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work. He joined Cognizant after spending 15 years with Gartner as a senior industry analyst researching and advising on areas such as cloud computing and global sourcing. Prior to Gartner, Ben worked for a number of consulting companies including Coopers & Lybrand. His expertise in helping clients see around corners, think the unthinkable and calculate the compound annual growth rate of unintended consequences has brought him to Cognizant, where his charter is to research and analyze how organizations can leverage the incredibly powerful new opportunities that are being created as new technologies make computing power more pervasive, more affordable and more important than ever before. Ben graduated with a degree in philosophy from Manchester University in the UK. He can be reached at Ben.Pring@cognizant.com.

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

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SMAC Expert Series: Paul Roehrig and Ben Pring

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:57:45 EDT

How does big data impact companies today? How are companies competing on the use of business intelligence? What business transformations and business model changes are taking place due to these capabilities? Watch this interview that I recorded with Cognizant's Co-Directors of the Center for The Future of Work, Paul Roehrig and Ben Pring as they share their latest research with us. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/ctycYs18dyk

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

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Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of June 9, 2013

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:00:03 EDT

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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5
Also read M2M News Weekly
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Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read SMAC News Weekly

The GSMA has published research that demonstrates the significant socio-economic impact mHealth adoption will have in Europe. Findings reveal mHealth could save almost €100 billion in healthcare costs in the EU by 2017 as well as add €93 billion in GDP. Read Original Content

Visiongain has determined the value of the global mHealth market in 2013 will reach $2 billion. Read Original Content

A team of doctors and health professionals have developed an app called iTriage, which has been reviewed by Harvard Medical School and allows users to check their symptoms, explore possible causes, research medications, and find a doctor in their local area. Read Original Content

AnyPresence is a mobile development platform that reduces the time and cost of mobile-enabling enterprise business processes, products, and services. It offers organizations the ability to assemble and deploy backend servers, native iOS, native Android, and HTML5 mobile web apps without platform "lock-in". This newsletter is sponsored in part by AnyPresence.

According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research, global mHealth market is expected to reach 10.2 billion by 2018 from 1.3 billion in 2012 at a CAGR of 41.5 percent from 2012 to 2018. Read Original Content

HealthTap, an online service that enables patients to ask doctors health-related questions for free, has launched AppRx, a new mobile health app review service. Its 40,000-plus physicians can review or rate any of the roughly 40,000 mobile health apps available in the iTunes and Google online stores. Read Original Content
As recently as March 2013, the top ten mobile applications that help manage health, fitness and lifestyle generated up to four million free and 300,000 paid downloads daily, according to an article published by Mobile Marketer. Read Original Content

The GiraffPlus project, from Örebro University, Sweden, is a technical solution involving sensors that can measure blood pressure and body temperature, register movements and detect if someone is lying still for an unusually long period of time, or takes a sudden fall.
The information from the sensors is analyzed by an intelligent system and is designed to quickly alert caregiver in emergencies. Read Original Content

The telemedicine patient monitoring market grew from 4.2 billion in 2007 to over 10 billion dollars in 2012, according to Kalorama Information. The healthcare market research publisher said that while the market is small, it is fast growing with a large amount of competitors and increasing awareness of effectiveness. Read Original Content

Identified earlier this week by iMedicalApps, Apple has been rejecting medical and health apps that provide information about prescription and over-the-counter medications. The rulings appear to target drug reference guide apps that provide both on and off label dosage guidelines. Read Original Content

According to PwC, almost two out of three Canadians are using their handheld devices to access mobile health care for themselves and their loved ones. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Florian Ganz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Hadas Lahav
Mobile Expert Video Series: Shishir Kapoor - Truzign
Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC
Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel

Whitepapers of Note

The A to Z of Mobile Workforce Scheduling Optimization
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Staying Awake with Workforce Management
Two Roads to Mobile Workforce Management: Choosing Between On-Premises and Cloud Delivery
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Mobility News Weekly – Week of June 9, 2013

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:00:02 EDT

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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Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5
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IDC projects shipments of “smart connect devices” will grow to 1.7 billion units in 2014. China, India, Brazil, and Russia are expected to generate shipments of 662 million units valued at more than $206 billion, while the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan will account for more than 650 million units valued at $204 billion. Read Original Content

The Wall Street Journal reports that Lenovo “is in preliminary talks with ‘multiple parties’ about a possible joint venture in smartphones” as a way to offset the global decline in PC sales. What makes Lenovo particularly interesting is that it’s been the only major Windows OEM to weather the collapse of the PC industry so far. Read Original Content

The mobile device management market is rapidly being commoditized and could very likely be consumed by emerging technologies that focus on mobile application security, according to Gartner. 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.

Lenovo recently announced that as many as six smartphones including the flagship K900, ranging between Rs 8,000 and Rs 35,000 will soon be introduced into the Indian market. The company is now looking at various price points for its smartphones and is working on introducing its entry level phones in the sub-Rs 5,000 category in India, the HinduBusinessLine reports. Read Original Content

CCS Insight expects 983 million smartphones to be sold in 2013, accounting for over half of the total mobile phone market. Read Original Content

HTC is preparing to release a smaller version of its flagship One handset this summer, according to two people familiar with the matter. The new model features a 4.3-inch screen, compared with 4.7 inches for the original version and will go on sale by August. Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics Co lost $12 billion in market value on Friday, hit by brokerage downgrades that have underscored concerns about slowing sales of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone. Read Original Content

Apple is launching a program that will allow customers to trade in their old iPhones at the company's retail stores. In exchange for an old iPhone, those customers will be able to receive an immediate discount on a new iPhone 5. Read Original Content

Marketvisio.fi reports the Windows Phone is now the top OS in Finland. They found Windows Phone currently has 35 percent of new sales, ahead of Android at 33 percent and iOS at 30 percent. Read Original Content

According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of mobile application downloads worldwide doubled during 2012 and reached 60.1 billion, up from 29.5 billion in 2011. The growth will continue and annual downloads will reach 108 billion by 2017. Read Original Content

Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project conducted a survey of 2,252 adults and found that 55 percent of cell phone owners indicated they owned a smartphone, and 58 percent said that their phone operated on a smartphone platform common to the U.S. market (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone). Read Original Content

At Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference Apple CEO Tim Cook and other company executives unveiled new operating systems, iOS 7 for i-devices and OS X Mavericks for Macs, as well as a new version of its MacBook Air and a sneak peek at the next MacBook Pro. Read Original Content

In this article, Forbes provides a roundup of mobile apps and app store forecasts that reflects the urgency all enterprises, including manufacturers, have to get results from their mobility strategies. Read Original Content

At WWDC, Apple announced the anticipated launch of iTunes Radio, a music streaming service built into iOS 7. We already knew that iTunes Radio would incorporate iAds into the product. But Apple told everyone watching WWDC that there would be a way to listen to iTunes Radio sans ads. All users have to do is subscribe to iTunes Match. Read Original Content

According to a report by the IDC, the average selling price of a smartphone has dropped to $372 in 2013, mostly owing to high demand from emerging markets. The average sale prices for smartphones fell from $443 in 2011 to $407 in 2012. Read Original Content

Chinese computer maker Lenovo is working up plans to enter the Western European smartphone market in 2014, with Africa and West Asia already in its sights for the middle of this year. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Florian Ganz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Hadas Lahav
Mobile Expert Video Series: Shishir Kapoor - Truzign
Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC
Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel

Whitepapers of Note

5 Tips to Minimize the Impact of Rising Fuel Costs in Field Service
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications
Service in 2012 The Continued Search for Revenue
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Mobile Expert Video Series: Florian Ganz

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:46:08 EDT

In this short video interview with mobility expert Florian Ganz, recorded in Lisbon, Portugal last week, I ask his opinions on how to select the most appropriate mobility platforms, cloud mobility and when to use HTML5. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/6DKgCoHX_bA

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Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of June 9, 2013

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:00:06 EDT

Welcome to Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5. HTML5 is predicted to be the dominant development environment for enterprise mobility over the next several years. The questions are when and where should HTML5 be used today. In this weekly update on HTML5 we report on this ongoing debate and other relevant news.

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Wikipedia's HTML5-based mobile site has added GPS and local capabilities to the encyclopedia's mobile page. Read Original Content

Sencha CEO Michael Mullany talks to eWEEK about the demand for and future of HTML5, including the four primary reasons he believes demand for HTML5 is growing. Read Original Content

Content authoring and publishing tool provider Doc-To-Help has released Doc-To-Help 2013, which features the industry’s first HTML5 editor for content authors. Read Original Content

AnyPresence is a mobile development platform that reduces the time and cost of mobile-enabling enterprise business processes, products, and services. It offers organizations the ability to assemble and deploy backend servers, native iOS, native Android, and HTML5 mobile web apps without platform "lock-in". This newsletter is sponsored in part by AnyPresence.

SOFTGAMES CEO Alexander Krug strongly believes HTML5 will be the major platform for most developers of cross-platform mobile games within the next twelve months. Read Original Content

In this podcast featured on The Nerdery, 3M’s Michael Gjere discusses the company’s salesforce modernization strategy specific to the use of HTML5 apps in the field, and their decision to use an HTML5 app rather than native development. Read Original Content

HTML5 and JavaScript are winning over many developers, but some are still wary. Appcelerator’s Nolan Wright states the challenge with HTML5 as it relates to mobile is that it has not been able to meet the user experience bar set by native applications. Another HTML5 issue is the existing mobile Web browsers do not uniformly implement the standard, so developers still have to deal with differences between browser vendors and versions much like they do with the desktop Web browsers. Read Original Content

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has become a full member of the W3C and has registered a formal objection to the proposed addition of DRM to the HTML5 specifications. Read Original Content

Weinre is an HTML5 debugging tool addressing the challenge of testing and troubleshooting web pages on mobile devices, and can now be used with Internet Explorer 10 or Firefox in addition to Webkit-based browsers. Read Original Content

TechRadar lists and describes “8 Web Apps that are better than Their Desktop Equivalents”. Read Original Content

Abalta Technologies’ WEBLINK connectivity solution enables in-car head units to display HTML5 smartphone apps. Read Original Content

One of the reasons users uninstall mobile apps is they prefer the mobile Web version over native apps. However, uTest sees the mobile web as “in addition to” not “instead of” native apps. “As HTML 5 matures, along with the advent of responsive design and 4G speeds, we expect to see more users opting for the mobile web, even though we firmly believe that apps are here to stay.” Read Original Content

Google is investing in a new HTML5 creative development tool, Google Web Designer, for building interactive Web experiences with consumers, such as Web sites and applications. The tool is designed to help digital advertisers connect with consumers across multiple displays, regardless of the device. Read Original Content

Venture Beat’s Jolie O’Dell describes “4 Tools Native Devs should be using to Transition to the Mobile Web”. Read Original Content

Pandora launched an HTML5 Web app in an effort to bring its music-streaming service to as many platforms as possible. Currently, the new site is available on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 and other set-top boxes with browsers that support HTML5. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Hadas Lahav
Mobile Expert Video Series: Shishir Kapoor - Truzign
Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC
Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz

Whitepapers of Note

ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Mobility Innovations for the Next Generation Utility
Networked Field Services

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of June 9, 2013

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:00:03 EDT

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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A recent Finextra survey found that out of 183 bankers 43 percent said a mobile wallet offering is on the docket in the next six to 12 months and 60 percent of respondents said a "trusted banking environment" — as opposed to a third party app — is where mobile payments rightly belong. Read Original Content

In the past two years, Google has invested over $300 million just in acquiring digital startups to develop their Google Wallet app. They have also dedicated hundreds of developers to Wallet. Yet, Google Wallet is still far from a household name and has only seen around 10 million downloads in the Google Play Store. Read Original Content

Visa has signed deals with three companies to help expand wireless systems that merchants can use to process credit cards. The agreements with iZettle, SumUp and Swiff will see them become part of the Visa Ready Program. These wireless payment systems will make it easier for businesses to ditch traditional cash registers. 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.

An Apple patent, filed earlier this year, called "Method and System for Managing Credits via a Mobile Device" has piqued the curiosity of mobile payment followers. It describes a system that combines a virtual currency in the form of tokens or coupons with a monetary value that could be stored in a cloud-based digital wallet and used for a number of services. Read Original Content

Performance marketing company Affiliate Window has seen a dramatic rise in sales through mobile devices. In May the company found 572 sales per hour were made via mobile devices, with the iPhone alone generating 3,100 sales per day throughout the month. Read Original Content

In Japan fashion e-tailer Zozotown garnered 40 percent of its sales from mobile devices last year, while e-commerce giant Rakuten says mobile transactions now exceed 30 percent of total sales. Read Original Content

China's Xinhua News Agency is reporting the launch of a new mobile payment system from China UnionPay and China Mobile. The new system will use NFC to transmit information from the phone at the point of sale. Read Original Content

Payments company Square has launched Square Stand, which turns an iPad into a point of sale device. The new piece of hardware secures an iPad in place and also includes an integrated card reader for secure credit card swiping. Read Original Content

A new Australian Communications and Media Authority report has estimated there will be more than 285 million NFC-equipped handsets in the world by 2014. Read Original Content

Creative Mobile Technologies, one of the nation's largest digital out-of-home networks and payment processing solutions provider for the taxicab market, and Blue Bite, a mobile technology specialist, announced a media-mobile technology partnership in the U.S. taxi space. By September 1, 2013, Blue Bite's proprietary mTAG platform will be available in 5,000 taxicabs. Read Original Content

U.S. Bank wants you to substitute a wave of the cellphone for a swipe of the credit card when making retail purchases. The bank’s Go Mobile Payment Service requires an iPhone 4 or 4S that is equipped with a special app and a custom iPhone protective case that contains a computer chip, which uses NFC. Read Original Content

According to Ingrid Sjostrand of Mogul Media, Amazon nearly doubled its mobile ad revenue from 2011 to 2012, making a total of $610 million this past year. Read Original Content

According to Bloomberg, mobile video ads now drive as much as $350 million in annual sales. Read Original Content

“Only 56 percent of businesses are currently conducting mobile marketing, with lack of strategy and resources being the top barriers to adoption,” email marketing and cross-channel marketing solutions provider StrongMail says, revealing data gleaned from a new company-sponsored survey. Read Original Content

A new forecast put forward by researchers at Berg Insight indicates that Starbucks is now leading the continent of North America in mobile wallet transactions. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Hadas Lahav
Mobile Expert Video Series: Shishir Kapoor - Truzign
Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC
Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz

Whitepapers of Note

The A to Z of Mobile Workforce Scheduling Optimization
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Two Roads to Mobile Workforce Management: Choosing Between On-Premises and Cloud Delivery
Why Mobile Clients are Just Stepping Stones to Better Solutions
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant

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M2M News Weekly – Week of June 9, 2013

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:10:53 EDT

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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Sierra Wireless has introduced an embedded wireless module, which will support 4G LTE wireless connections to vehicles. The M2M wireless data module includes a dedicated application processor and an application framework with specific automotive libraries. Read Original Content

Relying on BlackBerry’s existing infrastructure, Blackberry’s new automotive M2M service facilitates machine-to-machine communication directly between the automaker and the vehicle, making it seamless for automakers to provide software updates to vehicles in the field. Read Original Content

North America’s M2M software and services market is expected to generate revenues of $788.4 million in 2018, up from just $175.4 million last year, according to new research from Frost & Sullivan. 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.

European utilities are taking a cue from Italian state-controlled power provider Enel, the pioneer of digital electricity metering which has driven installation levels to more than 90 percent in Italian households. Read Original Content

A new report by IHS' iSuppli China Research arm says new technical standards for smart meters – due to be introduced in August – will pave the way for the market to pass the 100 million units shipped mark for the first time as traditional electricity meters are largely being phased out by 2016. Read Original Content

Check out these five solution providers that got into the M2M game ahead of the curve – now poised to reap the benefits as a result. Read Original Content

Endesa reports it has replaced 30 percent of traditional meters at Spanish residences and has installed more than 3.5 million smart meters, making it the country’s leader in remote management. Read Original Content

Sales of smart-grid sensors, devices that measure electricity flow and report it back to a utility’s operations center, are expected to double in the next two years, to about $200 million, according to a new study by IHS. Read Original Content

NetComm Wireless Limited has announced that it has entered into its second major M2M supply agreement with Etihad Etisalat (Mobily), a leading telecommunications service provider in theKingdom of Saudi Arabia. The deal is expected to bolster vertical sector opportunities in the Middle East by enabling M2M communications over 3G networks as mobile penetration tops 100 percent. Read Original Content

According to Research and Markets, the Middle East and North Africa region is one of the leading geographies for smart grid development in emerging markets. Read Original Content

This week, AT&T announced it is taking on a project with Duck River Electric Membership Corp., a 71,000-customer rural cooperative utility in Tennessee. Under the terms of the contract, AT&T will integrate cellular-connected smart meters from Itron, meter data management software from ElectSolve and volt/VAR optimization and distribution grid controls from S&C Electric, and will then manage the entire affair for the utility. Read Original Content

DTE Energy Co. received approval to charge customers to opt out of using controversial smart meters. The Michigan Public Service Commission on Wednesday ruled that DTE can charge customers an initial fee of $67.20 and a monthly fee of $9.80 to opt out of the smart meters. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Shishir Kapoor - Truzign
Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC
Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz

Whitepapers of Note

5 Tips to Minimize the Impact of Rising Fuel Costs in Field Service
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Mobility Innovations for the Next Generation Utility
Networked Field Services

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

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SMAC News Weekly – Week of June 9, 2013

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:00:00 EDT

Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week.

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Also read M2M News Weekly
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Visiongain's latest report indicates the global big data market will reach revenues of $12.4 billion in 2013, driven by increasing adoption of big data services from the enterprise side. Read Original Content

Hitachi has launched a big data center in the UK, with a focus on healthcare. This new center aims to provide their customers with “innovative solutions that leverage the power of big data”. Read Original Content

IBM is conducting research that involves making use of the open Java Virtual Machine in a cloud-based setting as a way to provide dynamic services, especially to mobile devices. If the research project works out, it might be considered “the operating system of the future for both embedded systems and the cloud,” said an IBM research staff member. Read Original Content

While social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies add a new dimension to your model, to fully maximize their value consider the sum is greater than its parts. The formula for the Future of Work is called SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud on one integrated stack, where each function enables another to maximize their effect. To learn more about SMAC and Cognizant please visit http://www.cognizant.com/futureofwork/smac. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Cognizant.

The success of cloud services has not gone unnoticed by IT vendors; in the last week alone, IBM Corp. announced the acquisition of cloud vendor SoftLayer Technologies Inc., and SAP AG announced it was acquiring e-commerce platform vendor Hybris in an attempt to plug admitted gaps in their technology offerings. Read Original Content

Lenovo this week offered a peek under the covers on a new consumer cloud storage service called Lenovo Reach, which it said will allow users to securely access their cloud-based files and applications from any device via a single login ID. Read Original Content

India’s investment consistently surpasses its global counterparts in all aspects of SMAC with 42 percent of Indian companies investing in social media as part of external communications for customers and suppliers (global average 33 percent), and 48 percent investment in public cloud applications (global average 24 percent). Read Original Content

Mobile phone maker Nokia is employing big data technologies to reinvent the map and develop a living and breathing interactive mapping system for cars and mobile devices that adds new information in real-time, Nokia’s vice president of Connected Car told Siliconrepublic.com. Read Original Content

Big data will grow past its hype towards 2016 to become “just data” once the technologies mature, and organizations learn how to deal with it, according to Gartner. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Shishir Kapoor - Truzign
Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC
Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz

Whitepapers of Note

Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications
Service in 2012 The Continued Search for Revenue
Staying Awake with Workforce Management

*************************************************************

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

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Read the whitepaper on mobile, social, analytics and cloud strategies Don't Get SMACked

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

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Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Mobile Expert Video Series: Hadas Lahav

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:08:39 EDT

In this short video recorded in Lisbon, Portugal last week, I ask ClickSoftware's Hadas Lahav to explain the value of the newly announced partnership between Salesforce.com and ClickSoftware. This is a very interesting partnership and I will be intrigued to watch how it matures and impacts the field services market. ClickSoftware will be integrating with Chatter and developing on the Force platform among other things. Sounds like SMAC to me - social, mobile, analytics and cloud. Enjoy!

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

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

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Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of June 9, 2013

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:00:00 EDT

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 Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read SMAC News Weekly

Location intelligence provider Galigeo launched a location intelligence software solution for the enterprise. The three main functionalities of Galigeo-for-CRM are: visit planning; lead and case assignment and routing; and territory management. Read Original Content

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was awarded a $15 million five-year grant to implement a mobile device-based data collection system to monitor progress in family planning access and quality of care in some of the poorest countries in the developing world. Read Original Content

Melbourne, Australia’s Herald Sun provides details on a variety of “GPS Gadgets to Suit all Occasions”. 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.

ST-Ericsson, the joint venture between Ericsson and STMicroelectronics, has sold its GPS mobile business to Intel. Read Original Content

A fire department in India is installing GPS and video cameras to aid quick response during emergencies. The department will add GPS technology and related software to their tablet devices. Read Original Content

GIS Cloud introduced the GIS Cloud Mobile Data Collection app for Android and iOS devices. The free app enables users to collect data and conduct field surveys faster and easier. Read Original Content

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved iTrace for Blood Centers from SysLogic. The blood products tracking system utilizes RFID technology to streamline blood collection and processing and aid in product tracking and reconciliation. Read Original Content

Great Outdoors Mobile and GIS software developer Esri teamed up to create a new mobile app for fishing enthusiasts. FishAlerts! Utilizes GIS and mapping technology enabling fishermen to tap into data on marine protected areas, weather, and tides based on GPS location. Read Original Content

In this interesting article, The Barcode News provides details about the “History of the Bar Code”. Read Original Content

Field Technologies’ editor Sarah Howland poses the question “What Does Big Data Mean in Field Service?” Read Original Content

Geospatial firms association MAPPS will hold its annual summer conference July 22-26 in Rockport, Maine. The conference will focus on business, management, marketing, technical, policy, and workforce issues relevant to the geospatial market. Read Original Content

Combat boots manufacturer Wellco is complying with a U.S. Department of Defense mandate as well as ensuring the accuracy of its shipments by applying RFID labels to every pair of boots that it ships to the U.S. Air Force. Read Original Content

GammaTech’s rugged tablet device, the Durabook, is now available. The Durabook is designed and engineered for industrial and field applications. Read Original Content

Australia’s Port Hedland Port Authority is utilizing GIS technology to develop an intelligent multi-layered mapping platform to enable operators to make well-informed decisions critical for development, management and planning strategy. Read Original Content

A tool and equipment rental company in the U.K. is using RFID for asset tracking, deploying unmanned self-service equipment pods that provide self-service capabilities to its construction customers. Read Original Content

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Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC
Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
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SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
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Whitepapers of Note

ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
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Why Mobile Clients are Just Stepping Stones to Better Solutions

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Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of June 9, 2012

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:30:00 EDT

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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Mobile spending in China is predicted to grow to $15.7 billion in 2013, with $4.29 billion recorded in the first quarter alone. Read Original Content

LG Electronics Optimus smartphones will be distributed in Malaysia by South Korean electronics firm Brightstar. Read Original Content

Market research indicates India will have approximately 130 million smartphone equipped workers by the end of 2015. Currently, small to medium businesses capture 65 percent of the overall market. Read Original Content

AnyPresence is a mobile development platform that reduces the time and cost of mobile-enabling enterprise business processes, products, and services. It offers organizations the ability to assemble and deploy backend servers, native iOS, native Android, and HTML5 mobile web apps without platform "lock-in". This newsletter is sponsored in part by AnyPresence.

An Intel report reveals the Philippines is the fastest-growing smartphone market in Southeast Asia, and statistics from Mobile Monday show the country is the twelfth largest mobile market in the world. Read Original Content

An example of how China exerts vast control over content transmitted on the Internet was found when a student in Taiwan discovered the “Line” messaging application warns and stops users in China from sending certain politically sensitive keywords. Read Original Content

An Indian woman and her partner won the MIT entrepreneurship competition with their touch-free mobile technology. “3dim” provides real-time, millimeter-accurate 3D gesture sensing by utilizing patented signal processing methods. Read Original Content

According to a McKinsey Global Institute report, mobile Internet, the cloud, the Internet of Things and automation of knowledge work will “drive India in the coming years”. Read Original Content

Telecom operator Taiwan Mobile has launched a new mobile shopping service enabling consumers to make transactions on their phones and pick up their goods at more than 300 outlets operated by the phone company throughout the country. Read Original Content

Stating “"we want to work with passionate entrepreneurs who use mobile technology to help people live and work better”, startup accelerator Tandem Capital is launching operations in India. Read Original Content

Singapore telecom M1 Limited and Huawei have formed a partnership to further expand and upgrade M1’s existing 3G network. Read Original Content

Rakuten’s Indonesian e-commerce site, Rakuten Belanja Online, announced its cross border e-commerce platform. The global cross-border platform will enable merchants in Indonesia to trade in different Rakuten marketplaces. The platform has already been launched in Malaysia. Read Original Content

The Millennial Media Q1 Mobile Mix Report reveals Apple was the leading manufacturer in Singapore during the first quarter of 2013, followed by Samsung in second place. Read Original Content

Mobile device management and enterprise mobility management firm BoxTone announced the opening of BoxTone Japan KK to serve customers throughout Japan and the Asia Pacific region. Read Original Content

Gen-i and SAP are teaming up to deliver Mobility-as-a-Service solutions to New Zealand businesses and government, creating the first strategic mobile management partnership for SAP in the Asia Pacific region. Read Original Content

With around 113 million users out of 650 million mobile users in India already having video-enabled smartphones, Indian public broadcaster Prasar Bharati is offering free mobile television services. Read Original Content

Lenovo has launched new smartphones in Malaysia ranging from entry level to flagship models. This is the first time customers can purchase Lenovo smartphones in the country. Read Original Content

Israeli IT firm Matrix has opened a new development center in Changzhou, China, specializing in the development of mobile apps. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Shishir Kapoor - Truzign
Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC
Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz

Whitepapers of Note

The A to Z of Mobile Workforce Scheduling Optimization
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Service in 2012 The Continued Search for Revenue
Staying Awake with Workforce Management

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Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:25:15 EDT

I had the good fortune to attend a session this morning atClickSoftware's ClickConnect Europe 2013 with Gartner's Research Director Dr. Richard M. Marshall. Here are some of the notes I took from the session: By 2017 Microsoft will sell as many mobile operating systems as Apple. This is a bold prediction, but Gartner insists their projections are on track. Enterprise collaboration tools will be the source of "huge" productivity gains. By 2017 82% of handsets shipped will be smartphones

Mobile Expert Video Series: Shishir Kapoor - Truzign

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:22:25 EDT

In this short interview with Cognizant's mobile payments expert Shishir Kapoor, we discuss a new solution called Truzign and how secure mobile payment systems and authentications work. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/a9IAw5u54dk

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Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of June 2, 2013

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:00:11 EDT

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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Global annual sensor shipments for mobile sensing health and fitness devices will reach 515 million in 2017, up from 107 million in 2012, according to an announcement from ON World. By 2017, there will be 1.4 billion mobile sensing health and fitness app downloads globally, with health apps increasing the fastest over the next five years. Read Original Content

According to Black Book Rankings, eight percent of office-based physicians use either a mobile device for electronic prescribing, accessing records, ordering tests or viewing results. However, 83 percent indicated they would immediately utilize mobile EHR functionalities to update patient charts, check labs and order medications if available to them via their EHR. Read Original Content

A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report suggests that in the years to come, U.S. mobile health development will trail developing countries like South Africa, India, and Brazil, and another PwC report predicts a $46.6 million health app market in Brazil by 2015. Read Original Content

AnyPresence is a mobile development platform that reduces the time and cost of mobile-enabling enterprise business processes, products, and services. It offers organizations the ability to assemble and deploy backend servers, native iOS, native Android, and HTML5 mobile web apps without platform "lock-in". This newsletter is sponsored in part by AnyPresence.

According to an Ohio State University study, one-third of 222 pain management-related apps had no obvious input from a health care professional, while one-third of such apps had an indeterminate amount of input from a medical professional. Researchers say the findings underscore the need for better oversight of mobile health apps. Read Original Content

According to Juniper Research's Mobile Health Opportunities Report, public and private healthcare providers will be able to save between $1.96 billion and $5.83 billion in healthcare costs through the use of remote patient monitoring using cellular networks by the year 2014. Read Original Content

The Food and Drug Administration has taken its first action against a mobile app maker for failure to obtain pre-marketing clearance. Late last week the FDA sent a letter to Biosense Technologies Private Limited, asking the company to either identify an FDA clearance for its uChek urine analyzer app or explain why it does not believe FDA clearance is required. Read Original Content

The total global market for remote patient monitoring is currently estimated at nearly $22 billion and is expected to be worth $46 billion by 2017, according to a whitepaper released by MarketResearch.com. Read Original Content

Patient monitoring systems with advanced features, especially wireless or remote capability, are among the fastest-growing medical devices. The aging population and the associated increases in diseases such as congestive heart disease and diabetes as well as the cost of treating those conditions, is driving sales of these devices. Read Original Content

Preventice has announced the commercial availability of its BodyGuardian Remote Patient Monitoring System. Developed in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, BodyGuardian uses sophisticated algorithms to support remote monitoring for individuals with cardiac arrhythmias and allows physicians to monitor key biometrics outside of the clinical setting, while patients go about their daily lives. Read Original Content

Health apps that offer medical advice, remedies and doses should be vetted so they do not endanger lives or give biased or misleading information, the Australian Medical Association said. The association also said the people who approved apps (at Apple and Google) should be part of the responsibility chain, and it would be good to have medical expertise on the approval bodies. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC
Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal
Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger

Whitepapers of Note

5 Tips to Minimize the Impact of Rising Fuel Costs in Field Service
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Mobility Innovations for the Next Generation Utility
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of June 2, 2013

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:00:08 EDT

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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5
Also read M2M News Weekly
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Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read SMAC News Weekly

Microsoft's Windows Phone will account for 12.7 percent of all global smartphone shipments in another four years, Canalys said in a recent forecast. Read Original Content

Samsung's biggest lead in the first quarter of 2013 came in Europe where it took a whopping 44 percent share of the region's smartphone market. In markets including Britain, France and Russia, Samsung eclipsed all other brands, according to the data by Hong Kong-based Counterpoint Technology Market Research. Read Original Content

Apple’s smartphone market share is set to decline to 14.1 percent in 2017 from 19.5 percent in 2012, according to Canalys. 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.

Global smartphone shipments are expected to increase 33 percent this year compared with 2012, with shipments of smartphones expected to represent more than half of all mobile phone shipments amid strong demand from emerging markets and lower prices, according to new data from International Data Corp. Read Original Content

The Australian market for smartphone accessories, including emerging products such as smart watches, wrist bands and glasses, is set to exceed $1 billion by 2016, according to new research by emerging technology analyst firm Telsyte. Read Original Content

According to research firm Kantar, Windows Phone has taken more market share in the U.S. smartphone market than Android, year-over-year. Read Original Content

According to new figures from eMarketer, several markets worldwide reached a milestone in mobile usage last year. By the end of 2012, over half of mobile phone users in South Korea, Norway, Sweden, Australia, the UK and the US had made the switch from feature phones to smartphones. Read Original Content

Mozilla Corp. is preparing to roll out a joint venture with phone manufacturers to use its Firefox Web browser, Firefox OS, as the newest operating system — at the price of $50 or less. Read Original Content

According to a forecast by TechNavio, the global smartphone market will increase at a 10 percent compound annual growth rate through 2016. Read Original Content

Lenovo and Intel Corporation announced this week the availability in several markets of the Lenovo K900 Smartphone, the world's first smartphone based on the latest Intel™ Atom™ Z2580 processor. Read Original Content

Google-owned Motorola is looking to launch itself back into the mainstream mobile market with a newly announced handset, the Moto X. Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics unveiled a smaller and less-powerful version of its flagship Galaxy S4 handset as it looks to widen its lead in the smartphone market. Samsung’s Galaxy S4 mini features a 4.3-inch screen, 1.7 Gigahertz dual-core processor and 8 megapixel camera. Read Original Content

Alcatel One Tough, a mobile device brand under TCL Communication, has announced the world’s lightest 4.7 inch-display smartphone, the One Touch Idol, which is now available for purchase in the U.S. for $299. Read Original Content

India ranks fifth among the top countries for smartphone users with an estimated 67 million subscribers in 2013, behind China, the U.S., Japan and Brazil. But the penetration of smartphones as a percentage of mobile users in India is pegged at just six percent, according to the latest 2013 Internet Trends report by Mary Meeker. Read Original Content

Lenovo is set to launch its own range of smartphones in North America over the next year or so, company CEO Yang Yuanqing has confirmed. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC
Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal
Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger

Whitepapers of Note

ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Networked Field Services
Why Mobile Clients are Just Stepping Stones to Better Solutions

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

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Read the whitepaper on mobile, social, analytics and cloud strategies Don't Get SMACked

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

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Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of June 2, 2013

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:00:01 EDT

Welcome to Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5. HTML5 is predicted to be the dominant development environment for enterprise mobility over the next several years. The questions are when and where should HTML5 be used today. In this weekly update on HTML5 we report on this ongoing debate and other relevant news.

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Oxygen8’s Mark Ackroyd feels HTML5 is a “brilliant way to get your message out on a mobile platform quickly and easily.” He explains why in “Appy Decisions: Why HTML5 Could be the Option You’re Looking For,” featured in Fourth Source. Read Original Content

MySiteApp has developed a new product, Brow.si, an add-on for mobile websites to bring features that rival native apps. Developers can also create additional extensions for the Brow.si platform to add further desktop web/app-like functionality and monetization options. Brow.si is currently in open beta. Read Original Content

Internet media platform provider Blinkx introduced a dedicated app and open source HTML5-based Blinkx video player for Tizen-based mobile devices. “Developers will be able to access the open source HTML5 code and manufacturers utilizing Tizen will be able to more easily include video in mobile devices.” Read Original Content

AnyPresence is a mobile development platform that reduces the time and cost of mobile-enabling enterprise business processes, products, and services. It offers organizations the ability to assemble and deploy backend servers, native iOS, native Android, and HTML5 mobile web apps without platform "lock-in." This newsletter is sponsored in part by AnyPresence.

Google recently launched Polymer, a new library to build Web applications using Web Components, the new HTML5 standard to build reusable components for the Web. Read Original Content

PHP company Zend’s annual developer survey reveals that when asked how they intend to deliver content and services to their mobile audience, 79 percent of developers identified their intent to leverage Web apps and open standards such as HTML5. Read Original Content

Digital journalist Andrew Moran feels the HTML5 vs. native apps debate could carry on for a long time until a solution can be formed. He states that both HTML5 and native apps face fragmentation challenges, but cases have been made that HTML5 has shown more potential in terms of dealing with these issues as compared to native apps. Read Original Content

Recent research from Gartner indicates an increased adoption of hybrid apps, which could replace 50 percent of native apps by 2016. To better leverage mobile device capability, developers can add layers of re-usable HTML5 to run on top of native code in order to take advantage of each platform’s best features. Read Original Content

Instead of downloading native apps, PC Pro lists and describes 35 of the “best web apps you can use for free directly in your browser”. Read Original Content

The advantages native apps had over HTML5-based apps have been dramatically diminished if not completely eliminated in most cases. With the sophisticated HTML5 frameworks available today, performance and rich user experiences are now easily achievable, making it virtually impossible for the end user to tell the difference between a native and an HTML5-based app. Read Original Content

Netcraft’s Ofer Holtzman provides a look into how choosing a development platform (web, native, hybrid) influences user experience and business in his slide presentation, “Are Web Apps the Future of Mobile”, available on Slideshare. Read Original Content

FT Labs front-end developer Wilson Page details some of the technology behind the Financial Times’ shift from native apps to HTML5 on mobile platforms in “Building the New Financial Times Web App (A Case Study)” featured in Smashing Magazine. Read Original Content

Developer Austin Hallock provides tips on transitioning from Flash to HTML5, comparing common Flash game development tools against their HTML5 counterparts in this article featured in Gamasutra. Read Original Content

Online trading platform tradeMONSTER took its Web-based real-time trading app and modified it for mobile using a hybrid HTML5-native approach. "An HTML5 approach reduces your development cost, reduces the need to rebuild your app for any new store or platform that comes in." Read Original Content

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first successful Everest summit, Microsoft's Internet Explorer team and the developers at Pixel Lab partnered with climber David Breashears and his nonprofit GlacierWorks to create “Everest: Rivers of Ice”, an interactive HTML5 site. Read Original Content

The GENIVI Alliance has joined the W3C to bring its automotive expertise into W3C's Automotive and Web Platform Business Group. The Alliance will focus on accelerating the process of defining APIs for HTML5 web apps to interface to the hardware of the car, vehicle bus interfaces, etc. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal
Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger

Whitepapers of Note

The A to Z of Mobile Workforce Scheduling Optimization
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Staying Awake with Workforce Management
Two Roads to Mobile Workforce Management: Choosing Between On-Premises and Cloud Delivery
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant

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Read the whitepaper on mobile, social, analytics and cloud strategies Don't Get SMACked

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Gartner's Latest Thoughts on Enterprise Mobility and SMAC

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:03:24 EDT

ClickConnect Europe 2013

By 2017 Microsoft will sell as many mobile operating systems as Apple. This is a bold prediction, but Gartner insists their projections are on track.
Enterprise collaboration tools will be the source of "huge" productivity gains.
By 2017 82% of handsets shipped will be smartphones
Mobile security, mobile device management and mobile app management are only going to get more complex. Recognize how each additional app adds to the complexity and develop a strategy now that will keep the TOC manageable. No wonder the MDM (mobile device management), MAM (mobile application management) and EMMP (enterprise mobile management platform) vendors are getting all the investor attention this year.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a big deal. Smartphones will be the end-points of choice for the connected device data. Smartphones will enable you to view the meaning of connected device data and to act on it.
Gartner is using a new phrase at this conference - The Nexus of Disruptive Forces (social, mobile, information and cloud). They added the term "disruptive" for added emphasis. I agree.
The more people that work virtually or are remote and mobile, the more important it is to have social bonding between employees through collaboration tools.
Gartner is also talking about different technology layers in an IT environment moving at different "paces" of change. The system of record may have a very slow pace of change, but the top "Innovation" layer may evolve and change at a very fast pace. This "Innovation" layer is well suited for mobile solutions and cloud based apps. Having different paces, however, requires each layer to be abstracted from the other to permit different paces of change. This is a good way to think about technology stacks and how to design and develop your IT infrastructure.

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of June 2, 2013

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:00:01 EDT

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, near field communication (NFC), 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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Mobile banking is burgeoning in the Lone Star State. Thirty-three percent of Texans say they use mobile banking applications on a smartphone or tablet, up from 20 percent who said they used such applications in 2011, according to a survey released by SWACHA. Read Original Content

According to a March report by the Federal Reserve, 28 percent of mobile phone owners and 48 percent of smartphone owners used mobile banking in 2012, up from 21 percent and 42 percent, respectively, in 2011. Read Original Content

A recent American Banker survey polled bankers whose institutions offer mobile services on the mobile banking features they offer. Of those surveyed 76 percent said they offer mobile bill payment and 67 percent said they offered mobile check deposit. 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.

According to a VocaLink survey in the U.K., some 27 percent of respondents are now using their smartphones for mobile banking, and 20 percent are using them to make payments. Among younger consumers the number of mobile payment users is even higher, with 41 percent of those age 16-24 already paying with their mobile devices. Read Original Content

According to the Federal Reserve Board, 28 percent of all mobile phone users and 48 percent of smartphone users have used mobile banking in the past 12 months. This was an increase of seven percentage points from December 2011. During the same period, consumers using phones to purchase items tripled to six percent. Read Original Content

Mobile advertising produced almost $4.75 billion, or two percent of all ad spend last year. Online advertising grew at a compound annual growth rate of 47.2 percent from 1995 through 2012, while mobile grew 80.1 percent from 2007 through last year, according to John Fletcher, senior analyst at SNL Kagan. Read Original Content

According to statistics released from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, mobile advertising spend rose to $3.4 billion in 2012, up 111 percent from the prior year’s record levels, and mobile advertising now accounts for nine percent of all digital revenue. Read Original Content

Research conducted by InMobi revealed that 59 percent of global mobile web users are now as comfortable with mobile advertising as they are with television or online advertising. The research was conducted over 15,000 mobile users in 14 markets across continents. Read Original Content

Mary Meeker gave her latest State of the Web presentation, revealing that mobile accounts for just 3 percent of U.S. advertising spend, despite a 12 percent share of media consumption. Read Original Content

Apple continues to rule the roost when it comes to mobile ad share, according to UK-based ad firm Adfonic, but Samsung is winning a small victory in terms of seeing higher engagement for ads displayed on its smartphones, with better click-through-rates and higher earned cost-per-mille. Read Original Content

The head of the Google Wallet team has resigned after the product failed to gain traction in yet another setback for NFC technology. For the record that’s one leading mobile tech company, Google, struggling to figure out how to make NFC work right while the other, Apple, ignores it entirely. Read Original Content

A startup named Clip has raised $1.5 million in funding to build a mobile payments system for the Spanish-speaking world. The solution resembles that of Square, but it is focused on the needs of local markets such as Mexico. Read Original Content

Mobile payment platform Square has announced it is now publicly available in Japan, its first country outside of North America. The iPhone is very popular in Japan, making it a potentially strong crossover market for Square, which first launched on iOS before also becoming available on Android. Read Original Content

The scale of global mobile payment transactions is expected to rise nearly fourfold over the next five years to more than $1.3 trillion, a new report from Juniper Research has found. Read Original Content

PayPal is leading consumers and merchants into a ‘digital wallet’ universe and extending their lead with announcing partnerships with NCR and Discover. PayPal has 15 years of dominating online purchases but even more impressive is that they processed over $14 billion in mobile payments 2012. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M
SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal
Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger

Whitepapers of Note

5 Tips to Minimize the Impact of Rising Fuel Costs in Field Service
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications
Service in 2012 The Continued Search for Revenue
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant

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Read the whitepaper on mobile, social, analytics and cloud strategies Don't Get SMACked

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

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Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:42:04 EDT

I had the privilege of having breakfast with Dr. Moshe BenBassat, Founder/CEO of ClickSoftware, on a deck overlooking the Mediterranean this morning. Over an English breakfast, Dr. BenBassat shared that back in 1985 his team had developed software tools to diagnose equipment for the military. It seems two thirds of all parts replaced were unnecessary. The parts were being replaced in an effort to find and fix a problem without having first properly diagnosed it. His team was tasked with designing an artificial intelligence system to process and analyze data in order to properly diagnose problems so only the required parts would be replaced. In 1985 there were huge challenges to this task. There were not wireless data networks commercially available. There was not a lot of data available. There were no M2M (machine to machine) solutions deployed to gather data, there were not "big data" systems that could crunch numbers in seconds and there were no IBM Watson artificial intelligence systems available to diagnose problems and come up with answers in seconds. Dr. BenBassat's team was successful, but the final solutions could only be used in areas where there was a lot of time available to come up with an answer. The system couldn't work in a real-time environment.

SMAC News Weekly – Week of June 2, 2013

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:00:01 EDT

Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week.

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Big Data scientists and engineers believe they can make cities efficient, effective and responsive to human needs in ways that will reshape their very nature. In the most ambitious vision, the Big Data of Big Cities will mean these dense hubs of human habitation might become adaptive, almost self-aware. Read Original Content

According to a new report by Huddle, at least 38 percent of U.S. office workers are said to have admitted to storing work documents on personal cloud tools and services, while a whopping 91 percent of workers added they use personal devices to store and share sensitive company documents. Read Original Content

Amazon’s cloud poses a major threat to most of the traditional IT ecosystem, a team of 25 Morgan Stanley analysts write in a report entitled, Amazon Web Services: Making Waves in the IT Pond. Read Original Content

While social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies add a new dimension to your model, to fully maximize their value consider the sum is greater than its parts. The formula for the Future of Work is called SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud on one integrated stack, where each function enables another to maximize their effect. To learn more about SMAC and Cognizant please visit http://www.cognizant.com/futureofwork/smac. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Cognizant.

The Army’s Intelligence command recently awarded a sole-source contract to bring the classified Defense Cross-Domain Analytical Capability (a database storing various kinds of security-relevant information the Army collects) onto the proverbial “cloud” of distributed servers and networks. Read Original Content

According to Avanade’s global study of enterprise social collaboration trends, Facebook is a collaboration platform twice as popular as SharePoint – 74 percent to 39 percent. It's also four times more popular than IBM Open Connections (17 percent) and six times more popular than Salesforce's Chatter (12 percent). Read Original Content

Cognizant announced its earnings results this week and reported sales worth over $2 billion in a quarter for the first time ever. The company said its social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) services contributed to the sales growth as well as services that achieve non-linear growth. Read Original Content

IBM has announced that Xiu.com, one of China's leading online retailers of overseas luxury brands, grew its daily sales by 10 times using IBM software for Smarter Commerce to analyze Big Data, offering customers a personalized shopping experience and increased product selection. Read Original Content

The aerospace industry needs to catch up with the Big Data revolution, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. Big Data analysis of the huge amounts of data that are captured from a jet engine in operation could provide important benefits in the area of engine maintenance by identifying developing problems early. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal
Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger

Whitepapers of Note

ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Mobility Innovations for the Next Generation Utility
Networked Field Services

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M2M News Weekly – Week of June 2, 2013

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:00:02 EDT

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 Cisco’s latest global Internet traffic report, there were two billion M2M connections as of 2012. Projecting current trends that number will triple to six billion by 2017. M2M traffic is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 82 percent. Read Original Content

According to Analysys Mason, the Latin American market for M2M device connections will grow from 12 million devices in 2012 to 212 million devices in 2021 at a 37 percent compound annual growth rate over the forecast period. The largest sectors by number of connections will be utilities, automotive and transport, and security. Read Original Content

The M2M market is expected to grow 33 percent year-on-year between 2011 and 2016, according to Frost & Sullivan, taking the total number of SIM connections to 75 million by 2016. 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.

Revenues generated by the sale of M2M modules failed to break the $1 billion mark last year as the industry had hoped but look set to exceed that figure in 2013, according to a new study from ABI Research. Read Original Content

Panasonic has developed a tiny, low-power chip for sensor networks and Internet-connected appliances, which it says is the first to support a broad range of frequency bands. The new chip can send and receive signals for over 20 years on a 1,200mAh battery, if used to transmit twice a minute, the company said. Read Original Content

France plans to deploy 35 million smart meters by 2020, Spain 13 million by 2018, while the UK will kick-start efforts in 2015 to cover 30 million properties over five years. Read Original Content

Denver’s Road Home in 2007 set up red parking meter-like devices around town where people could deposit coins to help the homeless. The city has said those meters are being replaced with blue smart meters that also can accept debit and credit cards. The 85 new donation meters were donated by IPS Group, Wyless and Arrow Electronics. Read Original Content

Global shipments of smart meters for the commercial and industrial market will grow from 10 million annually in 2013 to 12.7 million annually by 2020, according to Navigant Research. Read Original Content

U.S. water utilities will spend $2 billion on smart meters in infrastructure upgrades this year through 2020, almost matching all previous investment in the leak-finding devices, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Read Original Content

AT&T has signed an exclusive agreement with PayGO to offer prepaid smart grid applications that help manage energy usage and reduce costs. The deal calls for AT&T to be the sole United States provider for PayGo’s utility payment solutions, which includes near real-time processing of meter information for prepaid services. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal
Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger

Whitepapers of Note

The A to Z of Mobile Workforce Scheduling Optimization
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Two Roads to Mobile Workforce Management: Choosing Between On-Premises and Cloud Delivery
Why Mobile Clients are Just Stepping Stones to Better Solutions
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Connecting the Dots Between Enterprise Mobility and M2M

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Field Mobility News Weekly - Week of June 2, 2013

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:00:04 EDT

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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Hospitals in Japan and China are testing a smartphone-sized handheld RFID reader designed to reduce medication errors and potentially save lives. The reader is used with an RFID patient wristband. Read Original Content

Many government agencies are automating workflow using enterprise content management (ECM) software. GovLoop provides an infographic breaking down the processes of ECM. Read Original Content

Atlantic Limousine and Transportation of Atlanta, Georgia utilizes GPS for fleet tracking. Company management knows where the entire fleet is at all times and can reduce mileage and fuel consumption utilizing the GPS tracking technology. 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.

Mobelisk’s MoGo Chimera is a modular case for standard Android tablet devices that provides durability and enterprise features of expensive business-class tablets for a lot less money. Read Original Content

Pakistan will become the fifth Asian country to use Beidou, China’s satellite navigation system. China, Brunei, Thailand and Laos already utilize the system, consisting of 16 operational satellites. Read Original Content

Geospatial solutions company GCS announced a new free webinar series focused on “developing solutions to the challenges of Geospatial Big Data by leveraging the fusion of location analytics, mobile platforms and cloud technologies”. The first webinar will be held June 12. Read Original Content

Caterpillar has unveiled the Cat B15 rugged Android smartphone, which is able to withstand both dust and water and enables users to interact with the screen even with wet hands. Read Original Content

Thailand’s Chiang Mai University and Saraphi Hospital have developed a mobile app designed to survey, collect and digitize health data of residents. Read Original Content

The video of the recent webinar, “Show off the Rugged: Next Gen Devices Modernize the Field” explains how rugged devices can reshape perceptions of field workers and contribute to the bottom line. The 60-minute video is available on demand. Read Original Content

Newly launched Collaborate.org aims to bring geospatial data to the masses. The company is built around World Wind, an open-source, spatial visualization platform developed by NASA. Collaborate.org is currently in private beta and will offer the service in a "freemium" model - users can upload data for free as long as it is publicly available. Read Original Content

A new Kickstarter project, Helios Bars, adds a long list of features to a standard bicycle including turn signals, GPS tracking, a visual speedometer and turn-by-turn navigation. Read Original Content

A program developed in Palm Bay, Florida, unites SWAT teams with trauma surgeons by sending SWAT officers into the field with a mobile device and a webcam. They can then connect with the trauma center enabling trauma surgeons to give assistance to the tactical team before the victim is taken to the trauma center for treatment. Read Original Content

QR codes are being utilized by the International Gemological Institute to provide certification and related information about jewelry pieces. The customer can use a smartphone and any barcode scanner app to access a webpage with information about the piece of jewelry from the IGI. Read Original Content

Daimler plans to add QR code stickers to its Mercedes-Benz cars. The barcodes will enable firefighters and paramedics to access critical information necessary to save car crash victims, directing smartphones to a webpage showing how to cut into each type of vehicle to free its passengers. Read Original Content

Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort in Oregon launched a new system to utilize RFID technology to avoid delays in boarding ski lifts. The lift gates are networked to the ticketing system and wirelessly capture skier information from the RFID tags without visual inspection or barcode scanning. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal
Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger

Whitepapers of Note

Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications
Service in 2012 The Continued Search for Revenue
Staying Awake with Workforce Management

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Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of June 2, 2013

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 15:30:01 EDT

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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Providing a look at what the China market holds for m-commerce in 2012 and beyond, the video “China M-commerce Market Research 2012” from Advangent is now available on Vimeo. Read Original Content

Hospitals in Japan and China are testing a smartphone-sized handheld RFID reader designed to reduce medication errors and potentially save lives. The reader is used with an RFID patient wristband. Read Original Content

Pakistan will become the fifth Asian country to use Beidou, China’s satellite navigation system. China, Brunei, Thailand and Laos already utilize the system, consisting of 16 operational satellites. Read Original Content

AnyPresence is a mobile development platform that reduces the time and cost of mobile-enabling enterprise business processes, products, and services. It offers organizations the ability to assemble and deploy backend servers, native iOS, native Android, and HTML5 mobile web apps without platform "lock-in". Powered by a mobile backend-as-a-service (MBaaS), AnyPresence also provides pre-assembled mobile app templates, a design-time API, and other patent-pending capabilities to further accelerate time-to-market. The platform is easy to use, yet flexible enough to enable source code-level customization or on-premise hosting options. This newsletter is sponsored in part by AnyPresence.

China Mobile is beginning large-scale trials of 4G services as its Shanghai branch will invite 5,000 users to test the latest 4G products including mobile phones and data cards based on TD-LTE technology. Read Original Content

Approximately seven million South Koreans, 14 percent of the population, are currently using LTE smartphones. This number is predicted to jump to around 30 percent within a few months. Read Original Content

A recent IDC study reveals nearly 60 percent of commercial smartphones in China are sold via telecom operators. IDC’s survey on corporate users also shows that telecom operators are the preferred partners for enterprises in deployment of their mobile applications. Read Original Content

Hong Kong-based mobile solutions firm MPayMe and First Data Corporation have formed a strategic alliance to offer mobile payment solutions in key markets in the Asia Pacific region. Read Original Content

Thailand’s Chiang Mai University and Saraphi Hospital have developed a mobile app designed to survey, collect and digitize health data of residents. Read Original Content

The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government released a report titled “Future-Proofing Local Government: National Workforce Strategy 2013–2020”. One of the eight strategies described in the report is “Improving Productivity and Leveraging Technology”, outlining the “enormous potential” for mobile technologies such as field workforce management systems to improve the efficiency of council operations. Read Original Content

To capitalize on Indonesia’s fast-growing population of mobile and Web users, SK Planet and PT XL Axiata are teaming up to offer mobile and online services in the country. Read Original Content

According to research from consultancy firm TNS, 60 percent of New Zealanders own a smartphone, compared to 33 percent at this time last year, and tablet ownership has risen to 19 percent, compared to seven percent last year. Read Original Content

Mobile communications and technology company Optus will roll out 4G coverage to 70 percent of Australians living in metropolitan areas by the middle of next year, along with a limited trial of a new technology used by China Mobile. Read Original Content

Malaysian Web hosting provider Exabytes is offering a complete website zero cost startup package for local small and medium business. Read Original Content

A startup mobile technology business, Mogeo, developed a free mobile app called CamperMate, which maps local amenities in New Zealand. The app utilizes the GPS function of smartphones to highlight nearby facilities such as campsites, rubbish bins, public toilets, free Wi-Fi and supermarkets. Read Original Content

Ford is planning to launch its mobile connectivity system SYNC in India within the next few weeks, enabling drivers to connect cell phones using the hands-free technology. Read Original Content

The Square mobile payments system launched its first service operating outside the U.S. in Japan. Read Original Content

“Mobile in East Asia: Why Japan, Korea and Singapore Lead the World in Mobile Monetization”, featured in Business Insider Australia, explores key trends and data and examine how these markets “may be harbingers of trends in the global mobile market”. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Enterprise Collaboration Part 2
SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel
Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal
Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger

Whitepapers of Note

5 Tips to Minimize the Impact of Rising Fuel Costs in Field Service
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
mHealth Trends & Strategies 2013
Mobility Innovations for the Next Generation Utility
Networked Field Services
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant

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SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel, Part 3

Thu, 30 May 2013 15:30:49 EDT

This is the third part of an enlightening interview with SAP's GM for Enterprise Social Software, Sameer Patel recorded at SAPPHIRENOW 2013. In this segment we talk about the value of enterprise social platforms and how enterprise mobility fits into it. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/kDYDmrXaCR8

Watch Part 1 here
Watch Part 2 here

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Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of May 26, 2013

Thu, 30 May 2013 09:00:04 EDT

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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Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5
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A recent survey by Deloitte found that 43 percent of doctors use smartphones or tablets for clinical purposes, which the firm suggested included EHR access, e-prescribing, and physician-to-physician communication. The study polled 613 physicians in the United States. Read Original Content

More than 40 million additional patients could be treated in Brazil and Mexico in 2017 through the adoption of mobile health services, according to a new report from the GSMA. Read Original Content

A new, free iPad application developed at UCLA helps women navigate through the sometimes confusing process of selecting a birth control method using medically accurate information. The easy-to-use app highlights the most effective types of birth control and reveals potential side effects and risks associated with each option. 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.

ON World’s report, “Mobile Sensing: Sports and Fitness 2013″ on mobile sensing reports 500 million mobile fitness and health sensors will ship in 2017. Two-thirds of these will be for activity tracking. Read Original Content

Nephosity, a San Francisco-based startup, has joined the swelling ranks of companies to receive Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for a mobile medical imaging app. Read Original Content

Saraphi Hospital and Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand have developed an mhealth app designed to provide users with a survey that will allow those health organizations to gather and digitize medical data from the residents of the district. Read Original Content

An iPad app developed by Child & Family Training enables health and social care professionals working with children to survey, explore and quantify almost any experience or symptom. Read Original Content

Health insurance provider Discovery Health launched the first electronic health-record application of its kind in South Africa last year, called HealthID, which is currently available on the Apple iPad and will be Android compatible this year. The electronic health record is at the heart of the application and stores valuable clinical information derived from claims data and pathology laboratories. Read Original Content

Apple, first with the iPhone and then the iPad, has "accidentally" revolutionized healthcare, so argues a blog post on The Motley Fool financial website. Although it was not Steve Job's intention, argues the author, doctors and other health-care professionals are using Apple's devices in groundbreaking ways. Read Original Content

Changing disease profiles, increased adoption of smartphones, advancements in mobile technology, and greater focus on health and wellness are laying concrete foundation for mHealth in India. Currently, there are more than 20 initiatives for mHealth in the country. This number is set to grow as India has a robust mobile technology infrastructure in place and saw the launch of 4G in 2012. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Recorded Webinars of Note

9 Reasons Why Every Business Needs a Mobile Strategist
BlackBerry 10 Implications for Enterprise Mobility
Debunking Common Myths of Mobile App Development
Demystifying the Mobile Container
It's Not Angry Birds: Mobile Apps for Serious Businesses

Whitepapers of Note

ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Two Roads to Mobile Workforce Management: Choosing Between On-Premises and Cloud Delivery
Why Mobile Clients are Just Stepping Stones to Better Solutions
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant

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Read the whitepaper on mobile, social, analytics and cloud strategies Don't Get SMACked

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Mobility News Weekly – Week of May 26, 2013

Thu, 30 May 2013 07:00:07 EDT

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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read SMAC News Weekly

Lenovo, the second-biggest PC maker in the world, has just revealed its plans to dump its smartphones on the U.S. market, with the first handsets likely to arrive within the next 12 months. Read Original Content

Pantel Technologies, known for its range of tablets, will soon be entering the competitive Indian smartphone market, PTI reports. According to the report, the Indian company will be launching three new smartphones as early as next month that are 3G-enabled, powered by 1GHz processor and will be running on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics Friday launched its cheapest Galaxy series phone Star. Star is the cheapest device in Samsung's Galaxy range and competes with the likes of Nokia's Asha range of smartphones as well as similar offerings from domestic firms like Micromax and Karbonn. 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.

Samsung has announced the Samsung GALAXY S4 is TCO Certified, the first smartphone to be awarded such an honor. TCO Development found the GALAXY S4 was sustainably designed and manufactured and met customer demand for sustainable mobile products. Read Original Content

Despite the meteoric growth of the mobile applications market, over two-thirds of consumers do not download apps, finds Ovum, an independent global analyst firm. Read Original Content

Huawei Company plans to achieve a three percent share of the Ukrainian smartphone market by the fourth quarter of 2013, and five percent of the market at the end of the year, head of the distribution department of the company in Ukraine said on Thursday. Read Original Content

For their fiscal quarter that ended on March 31, Lenovo recorded a $127 million of net profit along with $7.8 billion in revenue. Mobile devices business now holds nine percent of all sales the company had, and smartphone shipments were up by an incredible 206 percent year on year. Read Original Content

According to comScore, although Android devices outnumber iOS devices worldwide when it comes to actual usage patterns and online activity, Apple devices still account for a larger proportion of total mobile Internet usage. Read Original Content

According to new IDC figures, the worldwide smartphone market hit 216.2 million units during the first quarter of 2013, up from 152.7 million for the same quarter last year. Android shipped 162.1 million smartphones or 75 percent of the worldwide market, up from 90.3 million and 59.1 percent market share a year earlier. Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics has reported global channel sales of over 10 million units of the Galaxy S4 in less than a month after its global launch. The new smartphone from the Samsung stable has outstripped its predecessors in first month sales. Read Original Content

Recent reports from market research firm IDC indicate Windows Phone has now cemented its third place in the global smartphone market by finally overtaking BlackBerry. Read Original Content

Embattled Japanese technology maker Sony has cut its sales expectations for cameras, smartphones and tablets for fiscal year 2014-2015. Read Original Content

Konka has unveiled a dual-SIM smartphone Tuxedo 990 in the Indian market. The device features a five-inch WVGA IPS LCD display, android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, 1.0GHZ dual core processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB internal memory expandable up to 32GB via microSD, and a 5MP auto focus camera with LED flash. Read Original Content

Microsoft is will begin to place more of a marketing focus on the signature features of the devices its partners produce as well as on the connections between the mobile platform and Windows 8 and Microsoft's Xbox gaming console, according to a Windows Phone executive. Read Original Content

LG Electronics announced a white version of its Nexus 4 smartphone, the phone it built for Google's Nexus program, but an LG executive said the company is not currently working with Google on another Nexus-branded gadget. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Recorded Webinars of Note

Whitepapers of Note

The A to Z of Mobile Workforce Scheduling Optimization
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Service in 2012 The Continued Search for Revenue
Staying Awake with Workforce Management
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant

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Read the whitepaper on mobile, social, analytics and cloud strategies Don't Get SMACked

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

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SMAC Expert Series: Sameer Patel, Part 2

Wed, 29 May 2013 16:14:17 EDT

In Part 2 of my interview with SAP's GM for Enterprise Social Software, Sameer Patel, we discuss specific collaboration scenarios and value propositions around CRM, SCM and enterprise learning platforms. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/Uyqf1Dt-i7o

Watch Part 1 of this interview here.

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

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of May 26, 2013

Wed, 29 May 2013 10:19:59 EDT

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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
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Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
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In a recent report, Javelin Strategy and Research predicts mobile payments and prepaid cards will beat out cash and checks in popularity among U.S. consumers by 2018. Mobile payments are expected to see the fastest growth over the next five years jumping from $398 million in 2012 to $5.4 billion by 2018. Read Original Content

PayPal has announced it is offering free mobile card processing through its Cash for Registers program for the rest of the year. In order to sign up for the free service, PayPal is requiring companies turn in their old point-of-sale system in favor of PayPal's Here, or any other POS offering that integrates PayPal's technology. Read Original Content

Square has announced it is now processing $15 billion in transactions on an annualized basis, or $41 million in payment volume per day. These figures do not include Square’s partnership with Starbucks. 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 new report from BI Intelligence sheds some light on why mobile coupons are contributing to the growth of mobile commerce. The report suggests these coupons are helping drive traffic to online stores and physical stores alike. Read Original Content

According to ComScore, the total amount spent over mobile commerce in the retail sector increased by $5.9 billion during the first quarter of 2013. It also said mobile commerce made up 11 percent of online retail shopping. Read Original Content

In 2012 the m-commerce market in China was worth $7.8 billion, but this year it is expected that it will be worth considerably more as the first quarter alone brought in $4.29 billion. Read Original Content

The majority of U.S. smartphone owners use mobile commerce apps, and spend a lot of time every month shopping via those apps, finds a new study from Arbitron Mobile, a subsidiary of Arbitron Inc. that uses an on-device software meter and panels of smartphone owners to measure mobile usage. Read Original Content

Mobile payment platform Square has announced it is now publicly available in Japan, its first country outside of North America. The iPhone is very popular in Japan, making it a potentially strong crossover market for Square, which first launched on iOS before also becoming available on Android. Read Original Content

Dunkin' Donuts is making its mobile payment app more accessible by letting users view content in Spanish. The company said it is the first national coffee retailer to make information, features and special offers within its mobile app available in both Spanish and English. Read Original Content

According to Forrester, U.S. online retail sales grew 12.6 percent in 2010 to reach $176.2 billion. With an expected 10 percent compound annual growth rate from 2010 to 2015, eCommerce in the U.S. is expected to reach $278.9 billion in 2015. Read Original Content

Mobile payments have been picking up steam in Brazil. The Brazilian government has been taking steps toward making mobile payments more commonplace and has been introducing measures that may help regulate the mobile commerce field. Read Original Content

According to a new Markets and Markets report, the market for Mobile Money are expected to grow from $13.8 billion in 2013 to $278.9 billion by 2018, at an estimated annual rate of 82.4 percent over the same period. Read Original Content

By 2020 half of all Visa’s transactions will be via mobile devices, according to senior VP of new product development for Europe, Caroline Hawkett. Read Original Content

Discussing Starbucks earnings for Q2 2013 last week, company CEO Howard Schultz told analysts the company's mobile payment application now has more than 10 million active users. The company is approaching four million payment transactions per week, Schultz said. That's about 10 percent of total U.S. tender. Read Original Content

According to a study from Yodlee Interactive, mobile banking may keep loyalty high while physical branches continue their decline. Seventy-one percent of mobile bankers are either satisfied or very satisfied with their bank’s mobile and web offerings. Read Original Content

South Korea ended the first quarter with 41.1 million registered mobile banking users across nineteen banks. The number is up 10.9 percent from the end of 2012, the JoongAng Daily reports citing figures from the Bank of Korea. Read Original Content

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Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal
Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Brent Cohler on SAP Precision Marketing and Mobility
Mobile Expert Video Series: Mark Crofton

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Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Mobility Innovations for the Next Generation Utility
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications

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Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of May 26, 2013

Wed, 29 May 2013 07:00:07 EDT

Welcome to Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5. HTML5 is predicted to be the dominant development environment for enterprise mobility over the next several years. The questions are when and where should HTML5 be used today. In this weekly update on HTML5 we report on this ongoing debate and other relevant news.

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Jonathan McCarrick writes in the Web Host Industry Review about HTML5 and how it is changing the way customers use the Web. Read Original Content

Electronic forms and transaction management system provider zipLogix is now providing beta access to the next generation of its HTML5-powered forms software, zipForm Plus. Read Original Content

Developer Christian Heilmann believes flexibility is the super power of HTML5. “It is easy to make an HTML5 app adapt to a new environment and to make an interface that shows and hides content and functionality dependent on the capability of the device or environment.” 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.

Mozilla just released Firefox 21, with the Firefox for Android mobile browser updated to improve support for the HTML5 platform to better enable Web-based applications that rely on HTML5 to run on Android. Read Original Content

Paul Bakaus, W3C AC representative for Zynga and creator of jQuery UI, doesn’t believe HTML5 has a performance problem. He states “HTML5 performs remarkably well. Contrary to Zuckerberg’s recent statement, it is very possible to build a mobile web version of Facebook that outperforms the native client on latest hardware.” Read Original Content

Mobile apps and the mobile Web were topics at Econsultancy’s Digital Cream London event. HTML5 is helping developers produce sites that work better on smartphones, and apps are “falling out of favor” compared to HTML5. Read Original Content

Automated testing solutions provider Worksoft announced that Worksoft Certify now supports the user interface development toolkit for HTML5 provided by SAP. Companies using new SAP functionality built using the HTML5-based user interface technology from SAP will be able to build, run, and maintain automated tests for new applications from SAP. Read Original Content

BoosterMedia announced the launch of DoctorHTML5games.com, a new initiative designed to further the development of the HTML5 gaming ecosystem. Read Original Content

WeVideo’s Chrome Packaged App is written entirely in HTML5 and WebGL. The browser-based version of the app will run on any smartphone and tablet browsers that support HTML5 and WebGL. Read Original Content

Troy Apps Software sees the move to native apps by big players such as LinkedIn, Facebook and others as the beginning of a landslide movement away from the use of Web-based HTML5. The company’s CEO outlines five reasons native apps will dominate mobile business strategies. Read Original Content

One way to make a website mobile-compatible is to use HTML5. Web designer Allen Kory points out reasons to develop a website using HTML5. Read Original Content

A new cloud-based HTML5 presentation platform, emaze, makes movie-like presentations accessible to small and medium businesses and offers both free and paid plans. Read Original Content

HTML5 banners are a way for marketers to engage the user in a new, innovative and interactive way. HTML5 technology enables advertisers to develop cross-platform advertisements spread across the Web and mobile applications. Read Original Content

Transport for London will relaunch its website using HTML5 technology to enable users to access the site on any mobile device. The project will go live in beta in the next two months. Read Original Content

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ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Networked Field Services
Why Mobile Clients are Just Stepping Stones to Better Solutions

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SMAC Expert Series: SAP's Sameer Patel

Tue, 28 May 2013 19:30:16 EDT

Is your company thinking about enterprise social collaboration platforms? Many CIOs are in the process of testing collaboration platforms today, but not quite knowing what to do with them. In this short video interview, recorded at SAPPHIRE NOW 2013 a couple of weeks ago, SAP's GM for Enterprise Social Software, Sameer Patel answers my questions on social platforms. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/8nUf5NXF-go

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SMAC News Weekly – Week of May 26, 2013

Tue, 28 May 2013 11:00:50 EDT

Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
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SAP is more than doubling its commitment to the SAP HANA Real Time Fund, going from $155 million to $405 million, to support innovation surrounding real-time applications and big data. Read Original Content

IMS Health today announced the acquisition of Semantelli Corporation, a Bridgewater, New Jersey based social media analytics company, to extend its marketing and consumer engagement capabilities for healthcare organizations around the world. Read Original Content

The head of Wal-Mart’s mobile division recently stated Big Data analytics will play a major role in the company’s mobile strategy. The retailer is planning to enhance its applications with geo-tracking functionality that will enable it to customize product recommendations, discounts and promotions based on the merchandise in the particular store the user is visiting. Read Original Content

While social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies add a new dimension to your model, to fully maximize their value consider the sum is greater than its parts. The formula for the Future of Work is called SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud on one integrated stack, where each function enables another to maximize their effect. To learn more about SMAC and Cognizant please visit http://www.cognizant.com/futureofwork/smac. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Cognizant.

Amazon has launched a Cloud Drive Photos app for iOS, letting owners of the iPhone and iPad join Android users in storing their photography on the company's servers. The app allows users to both upload pictures to their Amazon Cloud account and to browse the photos that are already stored there. Read Original Content

Bangalore-based startup InRev Systems Pvt Ltd, which offers SaaS-based social media analytics solutions via its platform Simplify360, has bagged more than 100 clients globally since it started operations in 2011. Read Original Content

A recent upgrade to IBM Corp’s SmartCloud enables the cloud computing product to run copies of SAP AG’s in-memory database platform HANA and provides the Big Blue product with new data analytics features. Read Original Content

The Federal Government is studying a whole-of-government big data strategy among several other initiatives as part of its three-year ICT strategy released last year, according to a recent update. Read Original Content

Microsoft has announced this week that their relatively new SkyDrive cloud storage service has now passed 250 million users. Microsoft SkyDrive, which was previously known as Windows Live SkyDrive and Windows Live Folders, provides a cloud file hosting service that allows users to upload and sync files to cloud storage and access them from a Web browser or mobile, laptop or desktop device. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Recorded Webinars of Note

Whitepapers of Note

The A to Z of Mobile Workforce Scheduling Optimization
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Staying Awake with Workforce Management
Two Roads to Mobile Workforce Management: Choosing Between On-Premises and Cloud Delivery

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

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Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of May 26, 2013

Mon, 27 May 2013 07:00:01 EDT

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 Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read SMAC News Weekly

To help increase productivity and efficiency in the dairy industry, GEA Farm Technologies developed an RFID solution to help farms manage their herds. Read Original Content

CNET’s Antuan Goodwin provides details on “Eight Features that a 5-star GPS Navigator Should Have”. Read Original Content

The new HD-VOICE Bluetooth device from SuperTooth can be set to announce callers and provide GPS directions in 12 different languages. 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.

Nestlé Nespresso is trying out a new RFID-based system to simplify the purchase process for customers using the Expedited Self Payment kiosk. Read Original Content

A case study from Xplore Technologies illustrates how a solution utilizing rugged tablets and RFID technology helped a manufacturing facility for Carrier Corporation save $400,000 per year. Read Original Content

Kaya Ismail reviews SurveyToGo for Android in this article featured in Tapscape. The app is a “fantastic data collection and survey application” enabling users to create, conduct & manage electronic mobile surveys from their Android device. Read Original Content

Bill Hardgrave, current dean of the business school at Auburn University, believes RFID is still a “disruptive technology” if used as more than a bar code replacement. Read Original Content

Startup Adaia and BMW are collaborating to develop a rugged Android smartphone with satellite capabilities. The Blackcomb device is designed for outdoorsmen and adventurers and is planned for release in 2014. Read Original Content

Panasonic System Communications’ Tom O’Connor believes tablets have barely scratched the surface of potential uses as a productivity tool for facility management. Read Original Content

GIS program chair at American Sentinel University Stephen McElroy states GIS is a technology with a powerful set of tools that many companies are using to get a better grasp on their data. He provides advice on “Getting Your Business Ready for GIS” in this article featured in Data Informed. Read Original Content

Buycott, a new free barcode scanning app for iOS and Android is designed to let users know if, by purchasing a product, they are supporting a company whose practices they disagree with. Read Original Content

Google announced three new location service APIs for Android that are meant to optimize the way location is used in apps. The new features are: Fused Location provider, Geofencing and Activity recognition. Read Original Content

The BarCode News provides “Five Ways RFID Can Benefit Asset Tracking in a Healthcare Setting”. Read Original Content

The Australian Collaborative Land Evaluation Program teamed up with Esri Australia to create an online portal for national soil data management. A publicly accessible interactive mapping website was created utilizing GIS technology. Read Original Content

Making greater use of electronic tools can cut the lag time between fieldwork and data provision while still maintaining quality standards. “The Value of Electronic Data Capture” is featured in TransportXtra. Read Original Content

A German team of scientists believe GPS satellite-based positioning could offer detailed information within minutes of an earthquake, providing faster and more accurate early warning systems for tsunamis. Read Original Content

IBM is helping the City of Dublin use Big Data to identify and solve the root causes of traffic congestion in its public transport network throughout the city. Integrating data from a citywide network of sensors with geospatial data will enable city officials to better monitor and manage traffic in real time. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Recorded Webinars of Note

Whitepapers of Note

ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Mobility Innovations for the Next Generation Utility
Networked Field Services
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant

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Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly – Week of May 26, 2013

Sun, 26 May 2013 15:30:00 EDT

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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Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read SMAC News Weekly

Claiming its latest innovation is expected to invigorate research into 5G cellular communications across the world, South Korea’s Samsung is developing new technology offering access to high-speed networks at 100 times current speeds. Samsung expects to roll out its 5G network by 2020. Read Original Content

The BroadcastAsia2013 International Conference will be held June 18-21 in Singapore. The program will feature insights on “Over The Top” technology. Read Original Content

New Zealand technology start-up PowerbyProxi has joined a global consortium that is working to establish a worldwide standard for wireless charging of electronic devices. Other members of the consortium include Samsung, Sony, Huawei and Motorola Mobility. Read Original Content

New data from InMobi’s Mobile Media Consumption Report for India reveals mobile web users spend 2.25 hours a day on mobile devices. 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.

TowerJazz and TLi Korea have teamed up to develop sensor integrated circuits for the mobile market and will provide local offerings to mobile phone suppliers in Korea. Read Original Content

Tim Dillon of Current Analysis feels Australia has a strong mobile network infrastructure that supports initiatives in mobile for businesses and consumers. Read Original Content

Telecom New Zealand and Ruckus Wireless are collaborating to transform conventional pay phones to fast outdoor Wi-Fi hotspots in locations across the country. Read Original Content

Australian payment company Eftpos has announced it will soon begin trials of a mobile wallet and NFC widget to enable shoppers to pay by tapping their mobile smartphones against a payment terminal. The trials will be held from July to December. Read Original Content

Japan's Sharp reported losses of $5.4 billion for the year ending March 31. The company is looking to products such as high pixel density laptop screens and a focus on new robotics technology as well as partnerships with Samsung and Foxconn Technology Group to rebuild its financial situation. Read Original Content

Business analysts suggest China’s Alibaba is beginning to position itself to enter the mobile commerce field and move into the European and American markets. The company recently launched its own mobile operating system to better connect with mobile consumers. Read Original Content

Japanese mobile game company Gree has been forced to close its studio in China, after net sales fell by nearly 18 percent year on year. Read Original Content

The European Commission informed China it is prepared to investigate anti-competitive behavior by mobile telecom equipment producers. Read Original Content

China, South Korea and India now lead the world in the adoption of mobile commerce. Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand are not far behind, with double-digit rates of mobile commerce adoption. Read Original Content

With many of Vietnam’s operators just recently investing in 3G networks, the country intends to delay the introduction of 4G network services for at least two years, allowing service providers to carry out test runs and assess market demand. Read Original Content

India is poised to emerge as the third-largest adopter of personal devices at workplaces after Brazil and China, according to a Gartner survey. Companies are adopting desktop virtualization as well as mobility management and security tools to deal with challenges brought by BYOD. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Recorded Webinars of Note

Whitepapers of Note

The A to Z of Mobile Workforce Scheduling Optimization
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Two Roads to Mobile Workforce Management: Choosing Between On-Premises and Cloud Delivery
Why Mobile Clients are Just Stepping Stones to Better Solutions
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant

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Read the whitepaper on mobile, social, analytics and cloud strategies Don't Get SMACked

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Mobile Expert Video Series: Senthil Krishnapillai

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:25:27 EDT

In this short video interview, I corner SAP's VP of Product Management, Mobile Security, Senthil Krishnapillai and ask him about the latest developments in mobile security both on-premise and in the cloud. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/6t1Kr6q6El4

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Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of May 19, 2013

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:01 EDT

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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobility News Weekly
Also read SMAC News Weekly

Chiang Mai University and Saraphi Hospital, Chiang Mai, Thailand have developed a mobile app aimed to survey, collect and digitize health data of Saraphi’s district residents. Read Original Content

A recent survey by Deloitte found 43 percent of doctors use smartphones or tablets for clinical purposes, which the firm suggested included EHR access, e-prescribing, and physician-to-physician communication. The study polled 613 physicians in the United States. Read Original Content

Mobile devices among healthcare professionals have exploded over the last few years. On average clinicians use 6.4 different mobile devices in a day according to IDC Healthcare Insights Study. 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.

The market for mobile health sensors will grow at an eye-popping 69 percent compounded annual growth rate over the next five years to $5.6 billion by 2017. In 2012 the market was worth $407 million. That's according to mobile research firm Research2Guidance, which recently issued a new five-year report on the global mHealth market. Read Original Content

Most U.S. physicians think the use of health IT systems ultimately will result in higher costs, according to a new report from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Read Original Content

By 2018 ABI analysts say disposable Medical Body Area Network sensor shipments will hit five million. Previously, ABI reported 160 million wireless wearable health devices, of which disposable sensors are a sub-category, would ship in 2017. Read Original Content

According to results of a recent analysis of the Asia Pacific region’s m-health marketplace, the market’s value grew to $7.9 billion last year due to investments from governments in that area. Read Original Content

University of California San Francisco has launched a new app for the Apple iPad that presents a novel approach to learning the neurological physical exam, a challenging series of assessments aimed at diagnosing neurological disorders in patients. Read Original Content

Mumbai-based medical devices startup Biosense Technologies Pvt Ltd has launched its second product, uChek app, which enables physicians and patients to analyze urine samples using their smartphones, measuring parameters such as glucose, ketones and leukocytes. Read Original Content

A study conducted in Rio de Janeiro has shown that using m-health technology for monitoring patients who are living in poor urban neighborhoods can help to increase the access those individuals have to healthcare services while decreasing the amount of spending required to provide that care. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz
Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal
Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Brent Cohler on SAP Precision Marketing and Mobility
Mobile Expert Video Series: Mark Crofton
SAP M2M Expert Suhas Uliyar Shares Strategies for the Internet of Things
Images from SAPPHIRE 2013
Mobile Security Updates from SAPPHIRE 2013

Recorded Webinars of Note

Whitepapers of Note

Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
On The Road to Agile Mobile Business Applications
Service in 2012 The Continued Search for Revenue
Staying Awake with Workforce Management
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Kevin Benedict, Head Analyst for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Cognizant

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Read the whitepaper on mobile, social, analytics and cloud strategies Don't Get SMACked

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

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Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Mobility News Weekly – Week of May 19, 2013

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:00:08 EDT

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.

Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
Also read Field Mobility News Weekly
Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5
Also read M2M News Weekly
Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly
Also read Mobile Health News Weekly
Also read SMAC News Weekly

Jolla has finally announced its first smartphone, months behind schedule. The new smartphone, simply called the Jolla, is the first effort from a small Finnish company formed by ex-Nokia employees. The Jolla is the only smartphone to run on the Nokia N9 OS. Read Original Content

In 2013, for the first time ever, the total number of smartphones shipped worldwide is projected to surpass the total number of feature phones shipped. More specifically, 937 million units of smartphones are expected to ship this year compared to just 889 million units for feature phones, according to the latest numbers from NPD. Read Original Content

Panasonic India has launched the P51 smartphone, the first since its entry into the mobile phone segment. The Android smartphone has a 5-inch screen powered by a Quad Core 1.2GHz processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). 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.

Gartner predicts there will be more than 1,200 mobile CRM apps available from app stores in 2014, compared to last year's figure of just over 200 – representing a growth of around 600 percent. Read Original Content

The smartphone market is inching closer to saturation in the countries that care the most about the high-end. That will leave much of the market’s future growth coming from emerging countries where the focus isn't necessarily on the latest announcement from Apple, Samsung, or HTC. Nokia is already a big player in these markets, but it’s hoping to take the next step with its new Asha 501 smartphone. Read Original Content

Market research firm IDC released its latest quarterly look at the global smartphone market, and there was a significant change to the rankings. Windows Phone has, for the first time, eclipsed BlackBerry in terms of platform market share. In terms of Q1 2013, Windows Phone shipped 3.2 percent of devices, topping BlackBerry at 2.9 percent. Read Original Content

A month after being released to mostly positive reviews, Samsung's flagship phone is getting some validation from Consumer Reports. The publication has run all its tests, kicked the phone's tires, and named the Android-powered Galaxy S4 its top rated smartphone. Read Original Content

ZTE introduced its Grand X2 In smartphone with Intel Inside at the MedPi conference in Monaco yesterday. The newly introduced smartphone features the Intel Atom Processor Z2580 up to 2GHz. Read Original Content

Taiwan's HTC Corp. remained one of the world's top 10 smartphone makers in the first quarter despite sliding sales figures, according to local market research firm Digitimes Research. Read Original Content

ZTE is foraying into Indian market to sell its smartphones and tablet PCs. It has targeted to sell over one million handsets in a year. ZTE will enter the Indian smartphone market with an initial portfolio of five different models of smartphones. Read Original Content

Research company Raymond James says in the fourth quarter of 2012, BlackBerry’s share of the Canadian market topped out at a dismal six percent; but by the first quarter of 2013 it had more than doubled, rising to 13.5 percent. Read Original Content

A report from IT research firm Strategy Analytics found Samsung dominated the Android smartphone market in the first quarter of the year, capturing an impressive 95 percent share of all Android smartphone profits. Overall Android smartphone profits reached $5.3 billion during the first quarter of 2013. Read Original Content

Nearly one-third of U.S smartphone sales in the first quarter were on prepaid carriers, the highest on record, according to a report from the NPD Group. The statistic is another indication of prepaid's growing momentum in the smartphone market. Read Original Content

Smartphone vendor HTC Corp yesterday said global shipments of its new flagship device, the HTC One, would double this month from last month, strengthening its belief that it could soon regain its lost market share following heavy marketing spending this year. Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics said global shipments of its new flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone will hit 10 million less than a month after it went on sale, beating the sales pace of its predecessor the Galaxy S III. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Whitepapers of Note

5 Tips to Minimize the Impact of Rising Fuel Costs in Field Service
Don't Get SMACked - How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud are Reshaping the Enterprise
Making BYOD Work for Your Organization
Mobility Innovations for the Next Generation Utility
Networked Field Services
*************************************************************

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

View Linkedin Profile

Read the whitepaper on mobile, social, analytics and cloud strategies Don't Get SMACked

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

Join the Linkedin Group Strategic Enterprise Mobility

Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Oliver Betz

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:40:38 EDT

In this short interview recorded at SAPPHIRE NOW 2013, I ask mobile expert Oliver Betz his thoughts on mobile app design strategies. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/YP2Vhjjtwvw

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

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Read the whitepaper on mobile, social, analytics and cloud strategies Don't Get SMACked

Learn about mobile strategies at MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com

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Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 – Week of May 19, 2013

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:00:10 EDT

Welcome to Kevin Benedict's What's New in HTML5. HTML5 is predicted to be the dominant development environment for enterprise mobility over the next several years. The questions are when and where should HTML5 be used today. In this weekly update on HTML5 we report on this ongoing debate and other relevant news.

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

HTML Goodies provides a two-part tutorial, “Make a Data-Aware HTML5 App”, using the Sencha Touch framework. Read Original Content

Popular game Runescape is moving to HTML5 with its latest update. Reviewers note the most important part about the change to HTML5 is support for WebGL, a 3D graphics API based on OpenGL. Read Original Content

Oracle released an update of its HTML5 and Java-based mobile Application Development Framework for Java Enterprise Edition with a number of new features including updated mobile OS support and full file attachment viewing. 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.

Web developer Ian Devlin provides an HTML5 primer in “Getting Started with HTML5”, featured in PC Pro. Read Original Content

With security a major concern for all major present-day browsers, HTML5 provides some significant features that can improve security and acquire content from various sources. These features are highlighted in “HTML5 Content Security: An Unexplored Ground for Website Development Innovation,” featured in Business2Community. Read Original Content

Sencha is expanding its international HTML5 training program with new partners in Latin America and Japan joining the existing training partner in India. Read Original Content

BlackBerry developer Demian Borba presents “Creating High Performance Mobile Apps with HTML5” from Adobe’s MAX 2013 – The Creativity Conference. The video is available on Adobe TV. Read Original Content

Online file storage service Box is expanding its enterprise cloud storage platform with the acquisition of Crocodoc, which provides a cloud service converting Microsoft Office and PDF files to HTML5. Read Original Content

Moodle, the education course management system, has been updated with a new HTML5-based mobile app for Android and Apple’s iOS. The new Moodle Mobile app is designed to work both online and offline. Read Original Content

Mozilla announced a new proposition to would-be Firefox OS developers. The company is offering Firefox OS developer devices for “brilliant” HTML5 app ideas. Read Original Content

British firm Cadonix is launching a cloud-based general and automotive computer aided design tool with an HTML5 front-end. Read Original Content

Peter Bright offers a different opinion on the “digital rights management in HTML5” issue. He believes the W3C’s decision to publish a DRM framework will ensure the open Web’s continued usefulness and relevance. Read Original Content

The W3C published the first public working draft of Encrypted Media Extensions on May 10. Read Original Content

Mobile advertising network Vserv.mobi hopes to educate marketers on the possibilities and benefits of advertising on mobile by offering free HTML5 creative services to marketers. Read Original Content

Recent Articles by Kevin Benedict

Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger
Mobile Expert Video Series: SAP's Brent Cohler on SAP Precision Marketing and Mobility
Mobile Expert Video Series: Mark Crofton
SAP M2M Expert Suhas Uliyar Shares Strategies for the Internet of Things
Images from SAPPHIRE 2013
Mobile Security Updates from SAPPHIRE 2013
Digital Transformation, Retailing and Mobile Technologies

Recorded Webinars of Note

Whitepapers of Note

ClickSoftware Mobility Suite and Sybase Mobility Solution
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Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of May 19, 2013

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:00:05 EDT

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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Starbucks has announced that 10 million customers are now active users of Starbucks’ mobile apps, many of whom contribute to the four million mobile payment transactions the company records each week. Read Original Content

The mobile marketing ecosystem is projected to generate more than $400 billion to the U.S. economy by 2015, representing an annual growth rate of 52.5 percent, according to the new "MMA Mobile Marketing Economic Impact Study." Read Original Content

Groupon made dozens of mobile payments headlines this week when an app was released for the iPad at the App Store. It looked as though the company would be taking on Square in direct competition, but it the application was soon removed from the website altogether. 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.

Accenture has announced it would pay about $316 million to buy e-commerce and m-commerce consulting firm Acquity Group Ltd. Accenture, a consulting company, said the deal would enable it to expand the digital marketing services it provides clients. Read Original Content

Mobile commerce technology provider Unbound Commerce says consumer confidence in m-commerce has risen dramatically, and cites as evidence an analysis of mobile activities at 200 of its retailer clients that operated m-commerce web sites in March/April 2013 and March/April 2012. Read Original Content

According to Forrester, 30 percent of U.S. tablet owners have made a purchase on their devices, compared to only 13 percent of mobile phone users. Read Original Content

The latest m-commerce study released by Jumio Inc. has shown that many retailers may not be taking the right approach to selling their products and services over the mobile channel. The research showed that many consumers give up on their purchase before the transaction is complete. Read Original Content

Small businesses are, on an increasing basis, discovering the opportunities available to them via mobile devices and their preferences regarding techniques such as geolocation, social media marketing, and others are beginning to emerge. Recent research has shown that when it comes to smaller companies, social media marketing is preferred. Read Original Content

Conducted by consulting firm mLightenment, a new study predicts the number of mobile marketing jobs to increase from 524,000 in 2012 to 1.4 million in 2015. Mobile marketing spending is also predicted to increase, jumping from $6.7 billion in 2012 to nearly $20 billion in 2015 for a compound annual growth rate of 52 percent. Read Original Content

Tablet-based advertising is the rising star of mobile advertising and exceeded smartphone revenue in first quarter 2013, new research from the Internet Advertising Bureau claims. According to the trade association’s latest Online Advertising Expenditure Report, Australian spend across smartphones and tablets nearly tripled over the past year to $36.6 million in the March quarter, up from $13 million 12 months ago. Read Original Content

New research from mobile ad firm Mojiva reveals consumers are becoming increasingly comfortable managing their finances via mobile. Read Original Content

Annual revenue generated from content delivered to mobile handsets and tablets is expected to increase by nearly $25 billion over the next three years, projects a new report from Juniper. Read Original Content

According to reports from Reuters on Monday, Amazon – which opened its Kindle e-book store in China in December – launched its Android app store over the weekend for China. Read Original Content

The Mobile Marketing Association study has forecasted the number of mobile marketing jobs will increase from 524,000 in 2012 to 1.4 million in 2015. The amount businesses spend on mobile marketing will also increase, from $6.7 billion in 2012 to $20 billion in 2015. Read Original Content

Mobile marketing technology provider, Mood Media, has just announced the launch of its Mood Presence technology that applies the size of its considerable music network and geolocation in order to be able to connect marketers and retailers directly to consumers who are using smartphones, tablets, and other similar smart devices. Read Original Content

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

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Mobile Expert Video Series: Puneet Suppal

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:21:37 EDT

In this interview recorded last week at SAPPHIRE NOW 2013, I ask SAP Hana Guru Puneet Suppal about the connection between enterprise mobility, M2M or IoT, real-time business and SAP Hana. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/-uqIRD7wRgs

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

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Mobile Expert Video Series: Kurt Stammberger

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:58:33 EDT

Last week at SAP's Sapphire Now 2013 in Orlando, Florida, SAP announced they would begin reselling mobile secure app solutions from Mocana. In this press release they describe the role of Mocana in their mobile security portfolio. In this short interview with Mocana's VP of Marketing, I ask about their solutions and how they fit in the SAP Mobile Platform strategy. Enjoy!

Video Link: http://youtu.be/KTnV6HXjcUU

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

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