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- Mobile Health News Weekly
The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to medical mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.
Market research firm comScore indicates that from November 2010 to November 2011, the number of consumers using a mobile device to access health information rose 125 percent to 16.9 million.read more
- Mobility News Weekly
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.
Growth in internet traffic over mobile networks is set to explode during the next few years, increasing by 84 percent a year and accounting for 11 percent of all traffic by 2015.read more
- App Economy Bucks the Global Economic Trend
Over the last week I have seen a number of tweets and blog postings that have brought to everyone attention the fact that, Mobile App demand is being eagerly supplied by the growing Mobile Developer Community. I have seen this over the last few years by attending some local Mobile Developer Groups and Communities. Take the article from Paul Krill of InfoWorld, He states that "Demand for iPad, iPhone, and Android apps has created nearly half a million jobs for developers of mobile and social apps". Check out the full article hereread more
- Mobile Application Investment in Europe Grows
I noticed a very interesting tweet this morning from Nick McQuire of IDC, in which he states that IDC Research Predicts European MEAP Market Growth in 2012, even over the rise in 2011. This is fueled by the increase in Mobile Application investments... "IT teams need more efficient and industrialized development and management tools for mobile enterprise applications to help them streamline and simplify app deployment across a fragmented mobile environment," said McQuire. Check out the Press Release here. This covers so many areas that I am extremely passionate about as an Enterprise Mobility Evangelist at Sybase/SAP...read more
- Cross-Platform Mobile Visual Development ? a Tool Comparison
Mobile development tools are changing rapidly.
I had started work on comparing cross-platform mobile tools about a month back. I had initially started with a list of 26 tools. A few got added on the way.
However, what is most interesting is that in this short period of time one of the tools (Open Plug) was discontinued. It was a Flash based tool. Since Adobe decided to discontinue Flash for mobile in favor of HTML5 ? they really had no choice. Another tool (Pyxis Mobile) has been renamed as (Verivo Software).read more
- Mobility and UX Tweets
If you have been following me over the last few years, you would know that I am a Mobility Evangelist passionate on Mobile Technologies, Hardware and Apps, especially with respect to in-house Enterprise Mobile Application Development and the usage of Mobility in the Enterprise. I thought this week I would start to let you know how strongly I feel with respect to Mobile UX (User eXperience) and Design. Check out my latest tweets...read more
- Google Loses Appeal to Suppress Evidence in Java Suit
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington Monday punctured Google?s hopes of hiding the telltale Lindholm e-mail from the jury when Oracle finally drags Google and Android before the bar to answer charges of infringing its Java copyrights and patents.
The appeals court sided with the district court that has already told Google six times that the highly compromising e-mail couldn?t be suppressed.
Neither court bought Google?s story that it was an artifact protected by attorney-client privilege that was turned over in discovery to Oracle by mistake.
The appeal court found that Google engineer Tim Lindholm ?was responding to a request from Google?s management, not Google?s attorneys.?
It said the message concerned a negotiation strategy, not a legal strategy and ?does not evidence any sort of infringement or invalidity analysis.?read more
- Do You Need to Monitor Your Mobile Apps?
The increasing adoption of mobile applications as part of a company?s online services leads to the question of whether we need to monitor it like other parts of our IT infrastructure. As they are part of our shipped application services we need to ensure they are working properly. However, not every application must be monitored the same way. In addition, monitoring always comes at a certain cost. We need people to take care of the monitoring, we have to prepare our applications to be ready for monitoring and we potentially also have to buy or at least integrate new monitoring tools.
Before talking about how we have to monitor them we need to figure out whether and how much to invest in monitoring. As with classical applications, not every application is worth the effort of detailed production monitoring. An obvious decision criterion is business value. If the cost of monitoring exceeds the business value or if no specific requirements for uptime exist, then we shouldn?t invest in monitoring ? at least not beyond basic monitoring.read more
- Developing Your Enterprise Mobile 'iDea'
In my last article I looked at the motivation behind and part of the iOS Developer's DNA. I mentioned that many great apps had started with a great 'iDea' that was either inspirational, formed by personal needs or to better apps that did not quite do it as well as they could have. It is very easy for the developer to get to thinking of how to use the technology first, but this is not a great approach and can limit the opportunities for applications. My friend Anne Skare Nielsen, at Future Navigator in Denmark (http://www.futurenavigator.dk/) identified the formula to be an innovator...read more
- One Month Later, Galaxy Nexus Still the Phone to Beat
While Apple recorded their best quarter ever, Samsung and Google released the most impressive smartphone to date. Appearing on the Verizon network with LTE radios in the US, as well GSM w/ HSDPA+ radios internationally, the Galaxy Nexus is the most groundbreaking phone available. The mix of 32GB internal storage, a dual-core TI OMAP processor, [...]read more
- Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly
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.
In India, ?mobile is becoming the preferred way to reach a billion people at low cost,? states SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe. For SAP, the markets in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan grew 30 percent, India grew more than 100 percent, and China grew more than 60 percent annually.read more
- NFC and iOS: Will It Become a Reality in 2012?
Lately there has been a lot of rumor on the web about the iPhone 5 and iPad 3. One thing that most people and technical loggers seem to agree on, along with more internal memory for running of programs and a faster processor is a thinner design and new innovative features such as the use of NFC (Near Field Communication). Yes still speculation until the time the next iPhone will be announced, which will probably be in June at Apple's WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference), but worth talking about in advance. As a quick example of NFC, think of something many thousands of us use daily, the London Undergrounds successful use of the Oyster card and beyond that card payments , such as Barclaycard's Contactless Payment systems.read more
- Worldwide Market for Mobile Advertising is Expected to Grow 65%
According to a report from Gartner, the worldwide market for mobile advertising is expected to grow from $1.8 billion in 2011 to $13.5 billion in 2015, roughly a 65% growth rate. (The Mobile Marketing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile marketing that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.)read more
- The Mobile Chimera: Three Converging Technology Trends
In the case of technology ? as with mythology - the whole is often greater (and more challenging) than the sum of its parts. The chimera is a mythological beast of scary proportions. Not only is it fairly large, but it?s also got three, independent heads ? traditionally a lion, a goat, and a snake. Some variations on this theme exist, but the basic principle remains: it?s a three-headed, angry beast that should not be taken lightly should one encounter it in the hallway. Individually, one might have a strategy to meet the challenge of a lion or a goat head on. But when they converge into one very angry and dangerous beast, the strategies and tactics employed to best any one of them will almost certainly not work to address all three of them simultaneously. The world of mobility is rapidly approaching its own technological chimera, one comprised of three individual technology trends. While successful stratagem and tactics exist which address each one individually, when taken together they form a new challenge requiring a new strategic approach. THE MOBILE CHIMERA Three technology trends - VDI, mobile, and IPv6 - are rapidly converging upon the enterprise. Each is driven in part by the other, and each requires in part functionality and support of another. Addressing the challenges accompanying this trifecta requires a serious evaluation of the enterprise infrastructure with an eye toward performance, scalability, and flexibility, less it be overwhelmed by demand originating both internally and externally. Mobile The myriad articles, blogs, and editorial orations on mobile device growth have to date focused on the need for organizations to step up and accept the need for device-ready enterprise applications. This focus has thus far ignored the reality of the diversity of the device client base, the ramifications of which those with long careers in IT will painfully recall from the client-server era. Thus it is no surprise that interest in and adoption of technology such as VDI is on the rise, as virtualization serves as a popular solution to the problem of delivering applications to a highly-diverse set of clients. But virtualization, as popular a solution as it may be, is not a panacea. Security and control over corporate resources and applications is a growing necessity today because of the ease with which users can take advantage of mobile technology to access them. Access control does not entirely solve the challenges of a diverse mobile client audience, as attackers turn their attention on mobile platforms as a means to gain access to resources and data previously beyond their reach. The need for endpoint security inspection continues to grow as the threat posed by mobile devices continues to rear its ugly head. VDI It was inevitable that the growth of mobile device usage in the enterprise continued to grow that so, too, would the solution of VDI grow as the most efficient way to deliver applications without requiring mobile platform-specific versions. The desire by business owners and security practitioners to keep data securely within the data center "walls", too, is a factor in the rising desire to deploy VDI. VDI enables organizations to deliver applications remotely while maintaining control over data inside the data center, preserving enforcement of corporate security policies and minimizing risk. But VDI deployments are not trivial, regardless of the virtualization platform chosen. Each virtualization solution has its challenges and most of those challenges revolve around the infrastructure necessary to support such an initiative. Scalability and flexibility are important facets of VDI delivery infrastructure, and performance cannot be overlooked if such deployments are to be considered successful. IPv6 Who could forget that the Internet is being pressured to move to IPv6 sooner rather than later, in part because of the growth of mobile clients? The strain placed on service providers to maintain IPv4 support as a means to not "break the Internet" can only be borne so long before IPv6 becomes, as has been predicted, the Y2K for the network. The ability to deliver applications via VDI to mobile devices will soon require support for IPv6, but will not obviate the need to support IPv4 just yet. A dual stack approach will be required during the transition period, putting delivery infrastructure again front and center in the battle to deploy and support applications for mobile devices. With all accounts numbering mobile devices in the four billion range across multiple platforms and effectively 0 IPv4 addresses left to assign to those devices, it should be no surprise that as these three technology trends collide the result will be the need for a new mobility strategy. This is why solutions are strategic and technology is tactical. There exist individual products that easily solve each of these problems individually, but very few solutions that address the combined juggernaut that is the three combined. It is necessary to coordinate and architect a solution that can solve all three challenges simultaneously as a means to combat complexity and its associated best friend forever, operational risk. A flexible and scalable delivery strategy will be necessary to ensure performance and security without sacrificing operational efficiency.
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- Syclo and IBM's Maximo for Enterprise Asset Management
Many people know Syclo as a mobility partner of SAP, particularly in the EAM (enterprise asset management) space, but did you know they also work with IBM's Maximo in the EAM space? I was reading today about Syclo's Smart Work Manager version 7.5 for Maximo. Here is a list of some of the supported features and capabilities:
PSION's Durable Enterprise PDA
EP10
Work Orders
? Location
? Short/long description
? Priority and status
? Field generated work requests
Data Capture
? Time/attendance
? Parts and material used
? Failure codes
Plans and Histories
? Job plans
? Safety plans
? Equipment work order history
Advanced Functions
? E-validation and E-signature
? GPS, GIS enabled
? Assignment Manager
An area of particular interest to me was the workflow description in Syclo's press release, "...your technicians are guided through intuitive, action-driven workflow to ensure they capture all relevant information - including work performed, failure codes, parts used, and more." The ability to guide your workforce through specific tasks, in remote locations, using mobile apps is becoming increasingly important, especially in utilities where they are losing many of their most experienced workers due to retirement.
Enterprise asset management is one of those areas that many solutions come together. A mobile EAM system can include:
Work orders (field service management)
Time and attendance (HR and payroll)
Parts and material used (inventory levels, suppliers, re-order, etc.)
Safety plans (worker safety and compliance)
GIS/GPS tracking
etc.
Most mission critical mobility solutions, that offer competitive advantages, are not just one mobile app connected to one backend system. It is a mobile app connected to many backend systems in unique combinations.
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- Affording the Upgrade: The New World of Network Intelligence
The explosion of mobile applications and IP-based data traffic on mobile devices is fueling the migration to faster data rates and pushing the uptake of 4G technologies. Service providers are busy with migration strategies and upgrading their existing networks as stop-gap measures to allow an all-IP based services platform. Carriers and handset vendors are rolling out application portals as a way of differentiating their offerings while providing better monetization and ARPU. User mobility is pushing the trend for ?anywhere, anytime? data technology, while applications are driving the subscriber need.
The march of technology powers much of the above, including more overall data traffic and the move to mobile connectivity/mobile broadband. Applications are becoming pervasive with the subscriber dictating what they want to use, where and how. Operators are continuing to reduce costs by moving to an all-IP core, attempting to reduce network complexity and often outsourcing the management of their networks altogether.read more
- Mobile Strategies, PIOs, Optimized Intersections and Patterns of Life, Part 1
Several weeks ago I introduced, in an article on this site, the concepts of PIOs (performance impact objects) and PIVs (performance impact variables) and their role in managing a mobile workforce. Today, I want to expand upon the concept of PIOs and introduce two additional concepts, 1) optimized intersections, and 2) an emerging concept from the intelligence community called "patterns of life." We will then explore how these can be useful to an enterprise seeking to maximize efficiencies and the value of their enterprise mobility solutions.
For any particular job, the required PIOs must all come together at the right time and place (read 4D Field Services) in order to optimize your productivity and efficiencies (see image). The optimized intersection is where all of these items come together in the most optimal manner.read more
- Turning Point 2011: Mobile Commerce by the Numbers
Mobile consumers can finally land on mobile-optimized commerce-enabled websites and the traffic to these sites can be converted into transactions in a trusted, secure environment. These mobile conversion metrics are the key and the resulting revenue numbers are real, undeniable, and impactful.
Over the last 4 or 5 years there has been vigorous debate regarding when, exactly, the true potential of mobile will be realized. Mobile mapping, mobile TV, check-ins, mobile payments, push ads, games, QR Codes, NFC, Daily Deals, SMS, virtual mobile currency, pop-up ads, barcode scanning, coupons, and a litany of others have had their moment in the sun, but none have generated commerce upside at a truly transformational level.read more
- Adopting Best Practices for Wi-Fi: A Service Provider's Onus
As smartphone users become more sophisticated, they are actively seeking out the service provider they believe offers the best overall network for their smartphone. Providers are learning that users are quick to switch if they are unhappy with their existing service. Customers today expect their smartphone to deliver high-bandwidth applications along with high quality voice services. Service providers must look to alternative for ?offloading? these bandwidth-intensive applications if they are to keep up with this high bandwidth demands. After years of serving as a nice-to-have hospitality solution, IEEE 802.11 is being thrust into the forefront as a solution.
The risk that providers face when using Wi-Fi for cellular offload is that unsatisfactory user experiences with Wi-Fi now result in a loss of high margin smartphone users. The reality is that consumers will, in most instances, not realize that new smartphones will move off a 3G or 4G service to a Wi-Fi network. At that point, end users will associate a poor Wi-Fi connection with a poor cellular network connection. read more
- LG Signs Android Patent Deal with Microsoft
LG Electronics Thursday became the latest Android and Chrome OS peddler to bow to Microsoft?s patent claims and sign a ?patent agreement? that Microsoft said ?provides broad coverage under Microsoft?s patent portfolio for LG?s tablets, mobile phones and other consumer devices running the Android or Chrome OS Platform.?
Usually Microsoft brags that it?s getting paid for privilege. This time it didn?t a word about royalties, merely noting that the ?contents of the agreement have not been disclosed,? describing the deal as expanding on a pre-existing agreement. That license covered Linux and, as FOSS Patents points out, Android is a Linux fork. So, the new arrangement is assumed to be royalty-bearing. read more
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