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Enterprise mobility is an exciting, fast-growing but still very immature market. To counter the vendor hype about the degree to which their technologies offer end-to-end solutions, there needs to be greater awareness of the diversity of business challenges companies face in their mobility projects. In short, it is time to bring the enterprise back into the forefront.
Dec. 20, 2011 | Report | by Chris Marsh
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Yankee Group's 2011 US Enterprise Mobility: Employee Survey is an online survey of nearly 4.800 workers in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What are your changing work habits and level of mobility? What is your level of productivity at different work locations (office vs. remote vs. on-the-go)? What technologies are critical to keeping you productive? How do you use your own devices and (consumer) tools? What is your IT department?s policy?
Dec. 13, 2011 | Survey | by Chris Marsh
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The 2011 US Enterprise Mobility: IT Decision-Maker Survey is an online survey of nearly 2000 enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier? How satisfied are you with your wireless voice and data carriers? Do you consider switching? Why?
Dec. 13, 2011 | Survey | by Chris Marsh | CO-AUTHORS: Eugene Signorini, John Keough
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The world is in transition and in the year ahead, mobile will be both the protagonist and the subject of this instability. During the last five years, networks and the information they carry have plugged more than 2 billion new participants into the mobile economy. The winners in this landscape will be those players that can scale quickly and treat each user as a unique customer.
Dec. 6, 2011 | Report | by Yankee Group | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Carl Howe, Sandra Palumbo, Vince Vittore, Declan Lonergan, Eugene Signorini, Ken Rehbehn, Chris Marsh, Sheryl Kingstone, Wally Swain, John Keough, Nick Holland, Brian Partridge
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The technical and infrastructural pieces are coming together for an explosion of mobile applications in the enterprise. To help businesses with their design, implementation and life cycle management, all application and platform vendors need to ensure they are providing not just a technical capability, but the qualitative guidance on how to lay the right foundations for a strategic approach to mobile application adoption.
Nov. 17, 2011 | Report | by Chris Marsh
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As more employees purchase smartphones for work purposes, they are also downloading an increasing number of business-oriented apps from consumer app stores. Carriers, device makers and app stores must begin considering the enterprise implications of their go-to-market strategies to capitalize on this positive association between device and productivity.
Nov. 2, 2011 | Report | by Chris Marsh | CO-AUTHORS: Denise Lund
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The Anywhere Enterprise: 2011 US Enterprise Mobility/IT Decision-Maker Survey, Mid-Year Analysis, Wave 1-2, is an online survey of nearly 1,000 enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and select a supplier? How satisfied are you with your wireless voice and data carriers? Do you consider switching? Why?
Oct. 26, 2011 | Survey | by Chris Marsh | CO-AUTHORS: Eugene Signorini, Denise Lund
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Employee loyalty programs usually mean bonuses for long service and packages of savings and wellness benefits. But as mobility and increased consumerization transform workplaces, more attention must be paid to providing the right technology environment. With the right mobile devices and tools in place, enterprises can head off low employee loyalty and its associated costs in staff churn, resourcing and decreased productivity.
Aug. 31, 2011 | Report | by Chris Marsh
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Managed mobility is evolving into an essential enterprise capability, and Orange Business Services (OBS) is focusing on a strong solution and an emerging vision for integrating mobility across its entire business services portfolio. Other operators will need to learn from OBS' vision if they want to keep pace.
Aug. 18, 2011 | Report | by Chris Marsh
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With significant growth predicted, mobile applications are a hot new frontier in the enterprise ecosystem. However, as a distribution channel to enterprises, mobile enterprise application platforms (MEAPs) risk losing relevance unless they rethink the application paradigm. Embracing tablets, developing or partnering with a storefront capability, and adopting social attributes will enable them to become the application platform of choice in the enterprise and compete with the onslaught of cloud players entering this space.
Aug. 9, 2011 | Report | by Chris Marsh
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In Yankee Group s June 2011 survey on Cloud Computing adoption 55% of IT Decision-Makers cited a costly and difficult migration as a key barrier to adoption of cloud services, the third most mentioned obstacle after existing IT investments (61%) and a lack of confidence in data protection (58%)....
July 28, 2011 | Blog | by Chris Marsh
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The TopicView Enterprise Mobility is segmented by connectivity and application tiers for 55 countries and seven regions.
Jun. 29, 2011 | Data Module | by Chris Marsh | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay, Declan Lonergan, Wally Swain, John Keough
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The Latin America Mobile Forecast includes users, ARPU and revenue summaries, segmented prepaid and postpaid, with voice/data segmentations and technology splits including handset sales.
Jun. 29, 2011 | Data Module | by Chris Marsh | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Andy Castonguay, Wally Swain, Dmitriy Molchanov, John Keough, Nick Holland
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This companion slide deck to the May 2011 Yankee Group report "A Guide to Evaluating Mobile Application Platforms" outlines Yankee Group's criteria and scoring methodology for evaluating independent mobile enterprise application platforms. Both enterprises and independent platform vendors must give due attention to all criteria or risk disappointment in deployment, performance and relevance.
May. 20, 2011 | Report | by Chris Marsh
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Evaluating independent mobile enterprise application platforms requires a holistic view over an extensive range of criteria reflecting the usability, technical, control and company context of any deployment. Both enterprises and independent platform vendors must give due attention to all criteria or risk disappointment in deployment, performance and relevance.
May. 20, 2011 | Report | by Chris Marsh
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Large local enterprises and multinational corporations have different requirements for managed mobility, but adoption is heating up within both segments. The current focus on managing costs and mobile devices will shift over the next few years toward mobile application provisioning and management as enterprises look to make their investments in mobility more strategic.
Mar. 30, 2011 | Report | by Denise Lund | CO-AUTHORS: Chris Marsh
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Looking ahead to next week's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Yankee Group sees apps and devices grabbing the headlines once again. But MWC will also foster critical innovation in enterprise mobility, NFC and IMS, to name just a few. Meanwhile, the cold war between mobile network operators and over-the-top players will show no signs of thawing.
Feb. 9, 2011 | Report | by Declan Lonergan | CO-AUTHORS: Jason Armitage, Susan McNeice, Jennifer Pigg, Ken Rehbehn, Chris Marsh, Wally Swain, Nick Holland, Brian Partridge, Chris Nicoll
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In the face of increasing consumerization of the enterprise, IT must formulate and clearly articulate its policy on what consumer technologies are and are not permitted in the workplace. Failure to do so will bring the worst of all scenarios: confusion, a lack of transparency and a consequent loss of control of the technology environment.
Feb. 3, 2011 | Report | by Chris Marsh
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If operators do not change the way they segment the SME market in Europe, they will struggle to innovate in enterprise mobility and will cede further ground to those service providers who can bring integrated solutions more quickly to market. By taking a more progressive view, operators can become more embedded in SMEs' business process improvement and mobility strategies.
Jan. 7, 2011 | Report | by Chris Marsh
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The Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 U.S. Enterprise Mobility/IT Decision-Maker Survey, Wave 1-2, is an online survey of more than 1,800 enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and select a supplier? How satisfied are you with your wireless voice and data carriers? Do you consider switching? Why?
Dec. 29, 2010 | Survey | by Chris Marsh | CO-AUTHORS: Eugene Signorini
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The Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 U.S. Enterprise Mobility/Empowered Employee Survey, Wave 1-4, is an online survey of nearly 4,900 workers in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What are your changing work habits and level of mobility? What is your level of productivity at different work locations (office vs. remote vs. on-the-go)? What technologies are critical to keeping you productive? How do you use your own devices and (consumer) tools? What is your IT department's policy?
Dec. 9, 2010 | Survey | by Chris Marsh
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The Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 U.S. Enterprise Mobility/Empowered Employee Survey, Wave 1-3, is an online survey of nearly 3,650 workers in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What are your changing work habits and level of mobility? What is your level of productivity at different work locations (office vs. remote vs. on-the-go)? What technologies are critical to keeping you productive? How do you use your own devices and (consumer) tools? What is your IT department's policy?
Nov. 9, 2010 | Survey | by Chris Marsh
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In August after only nine months since it was purchased from eBay by a group of investors Skype filed for an IPO....
October 13, 2010 | Blog | by Chris Marsh
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New Nokia President and CEO Stephen Elop focuses on change and transformation.
September 13, 2010 | Blog | by Chris Marsh
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Faced with consumerization in the enterprise, employers' first impulse is to single-mindedly seek control. But instead, they should look to balance and share responsibility for device and application usage with employees. Our survey results show such flexibility not only brings better control but can also produce a substantial uplift in productivity.
Sep. 9, 2010 | Report | by Chris Marsh
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The Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 U.S. Enterprise Mobility/Empowered Employee Survey, Mid-Year Analysis, Wave 1-2, is an online survey of more than 2,400 workers in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What are your changing work habits and level of mobility? What is your level of productivity at different work locations (office vs. remote vs. on-the-go)? What technologies are critical to keeping you productive? How do you use your own devices and (consumer) tools? What is your IT department?s policy?
Sep. 8, 2010 | Survey | by Chris Marsh
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The Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 U.S. Enterprise Mobility/IT Decision-Maker Survey is an online survey of 854 enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and select a supplier? How satisfied are you with your wireless voice and data carriers? Do you consider switching? Why?
Aug. 31, 2010 | Survey | by Eugene Signorini | CO-AUTHORS: Chris Marsh, John Keough
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The Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 U.S. Enterprise Mobility/Empowered Employee Survey, Wave 1-2 is an online survey of more than 2,400 workers in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What are your changing work habits and level of mobility? What is your level of productivity at different work locations (office vs. remote vs. on-the-go)? What technologies are critical to keeping you productive? How do you use your own devices and (consumer) tools? What is your IT department's policy?
Aug. 31, 2010 | Survey | by Chris Marsh
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The evolution to 4G has the potential to reshape market share and market perception in wireless. Operators must focus on their current 3G customers, T-Mobile subscribers and prospects in their legacy service area to gain early momentum.
Aug. 23, 2010 | Report | by Eugene Signorini | CO-AUTHORS: Joshua Holbrook, Chris Marsh
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Ushering in a paradigm shift in enterprise mobility and freeing the information worker for a one-year old company with only 18 employees this is an ambitious goal, but then leapfactor don't seem short on ambition....
August 4, 2010 | Blog | by Chris Marsh
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The Risku in question is Juhani Risku, a former senior executive at Nokia, who has in recent months been making public his view on why Nokia is in such a mess, and what his future vision is for the limping Finnish company (blog) ....
July 27, 2010 | Blog | by Chris Marsh