Yankee Group perspective: Ubiquitous connectivity enabled by mobile technology will continue to help IT organizations improve productivity, drive down costs, increase revenue, enable M2M communications and improve service within the enterprise. Yankee Group believes the mobility needs of enterprises are transforming the Anywhere Network, and the Anywhere Network is in turn transforming the enterprise. Our research examines how enterprise mobility is evolving and analyzes the game-changing interdependencies of enterprises, applications and devices on the Anywhere Network.
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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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A10 Networks' business is threatened by patent infringement lawsuits from all sides.
August 24, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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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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The Topline Data Forecast presents the global connectivity markets, technologies and competitive landscape at a regional level. This data module is updated quarterly for Link Research clients.
Aug. 13, 2010 | Data Module | by Declan Lonergan
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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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Whenever someone needs to dig in a developed area (toddlers in suburban sandboxes excluded), utilities are responsible for marking the locations of existing pipes and cables in the construction zone with paint. Utilities commonly outsource this task to third-party locators....
July 30, 2010 | Blog | by John Keough
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The Research Topic Enterprise Mobility is segmented by connectivity and application tiers for 55 countries and 7 regions.
Jul. 29, 2010 | Data Module | by Eugene Signorini | CO-AUTHORS: Joshua Holbrook, Andy Castonguay, Declan Lonergan, Wally Swain
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The EMEA Enterprise Forecast identifies the growth in the business fixed-line market. Businesses want better and more efficient connectivity options both to and within the expanded EU.
Jul. 28, 2010 | Data Module | by Declan Lonergan | CO-AUTHORS: Camille Mendler, Andy Castonguay
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The Global Enterprise Forecast highlights global trends in the market for business wireline and wireless communications services and summarizes the major differences for each region's outlook.
Jul. 28, 2010 | Data Module | by Joshua Holbrook | CO-AUTHORS: Carl Howe, Camille Mendler, Andy Castonguay, Declan Lonergan, Eugene Signorini, Wally Swain
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The Global Mobile Forecast contains forecast information across consumer and enterprise mobile segments, featuring detailed infotainment and enterprise segmentations.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Declan Lonergan | CO-AUTHORS: Carl Howe, Joshua Holbrook, Andy Castonguay, Eugene Signorini, Wally Swain
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The Asia-Pacific Forecast encompasses consumers and enterprises across both mobile and fixed-line spaces.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay
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The EMEA ConnectedView Forecast includes data on users, carrier and content provider revenue for mobile data applications, including messaging, infotainment, marketing and enterprise data.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Declan Lonergan | CO-AUTHORS: Camille Mendler, Andy Castonguay
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The Latin America ConnectedView Forecast provides market data, including subscribers, contracts, technologies and handset sales through data applications, content provider revenue and consumer/business splits.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Wally Swain | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay
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The North America ConnectedView Forecast contains all forecasts for consumers and enterprises across mobile and fixed-line spaces in one file, structured in a Technology view. Look out for the associated monitors in separate Excel files.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Vince Vittore, Joshua Holbrook, Andy Castonguay, Eugene Signorini
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The Asia-Pacific Mobile Forecast comprises emerging markets with immense potential, and highly advanced mobile markets that are at the forefront of mobile data services.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay
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The EMEA Mobile Forecast estimates the current number of mobile users split by prepaid and postpaid; penetration rate; mobile service revenue split by voice and data; and users and handset figures split by technology.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Declan Lonergan | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay
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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.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Wally Swain | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay
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The Asia-Pacific Enterprise Forecast provides an aggregate Asia-Pacific rollup, as well as country-specific forecasts for a number of key markets such as Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay
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The Global ConnectedView Forecast collates fixed-line and cellular activity at the country level globally, compiling information by connectivity technology.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Declan Lonergan | CO-AUTHORS: Carl Howe, Vince Vittore, Joshua Holbrook, Camille Mendler, Andy Castonguay, Eugene Signorini, Wally Swain
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The Latin America Enterprise Forecast assumes that business lines are related to total employment, which increases if economic growth exceeds population growth.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Wally Swain | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay
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The North America Enterprise Forecast highlights trends in the North American market for enterprise fixed-line and mobile communications services.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Joshua Holbrook | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay, Eugene Signorini
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The North America Mobile Forecast includes users, ARPU and revenue summaries segmented by prepaid and postpaid; it also has voice/data segmentations and technology splits including handset sales.
Jul. 21, 2010 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Joshua Holbrook, Andy Castonguay, Eugene Signorini
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Consumerization is running wild in the corporate world, and enterprises have finally stopped fighting the trend and embraced individually liable policies in the hope of benefiting from the phenomenon. With the proper planning, provisioning, expense, support, security and growth policies, it doesn't have to be anarchy.
Jul. 15, 2010 | Report | by Joshua Holbrook
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The Research Topic Mobile Devices tracks and forecasts wireless vendors; sales of mobile devices by feature, technology and technical components; and average selling price.
Jul. 8, 2010 | Data Module | by Andy Castonguay | CO-AUTHORS: Wally Swain
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AT&T's shift away from unlimited smartphone data pricing is a positive trend for carriers, but it will create additional complexities for businesses trying to manage employee wireless usage. AT&T and other operators that follow this trend must help enterprises manage increased consumerization of smartphones.
Jul. 6, 2010 | Report | by Eugene Signorini
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Whether enterprises have planned for it or not, personally owned smartphones and other consumer technologies are an increasing presence in the workplace. IT staff and business decision-makers can gain efficiency and save money through this consumerization if they evaluate all devices with enterprise-strength fundamentals in mind.
Jun. 29, 2010 | Report | by Eugene Signorini | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth
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Anywhere is a rapidly accelerating future in which all of us, as well as the things we care about, will be connected. In my on-going quest to find yet more things in our lives that have already become connected, one of my most recent discoveries is the connected beer tap ....
June 9, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Yankee Group VP and Senior Research Fellow Camille Mendler explores the transforming landscape for communications service providers.
May 25, 2010 | Blog | by Camille Mendler
Evolving Service Provider Business Models
Despite a crowded competitive environment, new business models are emerging to lead CSPs into a vibrant future. However, CSPs must have the courage to transform. Hard decisions about what is core and non-core are required. In this webinar, Yankee Group VP and Senior Research Fellow Camille Mendler explores the ever-evolving CSP business model.
May. 25, 2010 | Live Webinar | by Camille Mendler
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SAP's U.S.$5.8 billion purchase of Sybase gives the ERP giant essential mobile and cloud capabilities, in addition to a workhorse database. The move could spell trouble for Oracle.
May. 13, 2010 | Report | by Sheryl Kingstone | CO-AUTHORS: Joshua Holbrook, Eugene Signorini
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Yankee Group analyst Sheryl Kingstone comments on the SAP-Sybase aqcuisition announcement
May 12, 2010 | Blog | by Sheryl Kingstone
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The distributed nature of mobile costs, devices and data has finally caused demand for managed mobility to catch up with supply. Current demand is driven by efforts to reduce operational costs, but as the market matures and enterprises push the boundaries of mobile initiatives, vendors will need to expand their capabilities.
May. 11, 2010 | Report | by Joshua Holbrook
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Analyst Zeus Kerravala comments on the recent Aruba Networks acquisition of Azalea Networks.
May 10, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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The Topline Data Forecast includes end-user and service provider activities in Anywhere markets at a regional level, and summarizes many of the Link Data modules. It is available to all Link Research clients.
Apr. 30, 2010 | Data Module | by Declan Lonergan
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HP's $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm generates almost as many challenges as opportunities. Despite Palm's innovative mobile OS, its sales volume and device portfolio have failed to ignite the market in any significant way. Even with its extensive enterprise positioning and computer portfolio, HP's conspicuous absence from the mobile marketplace makes leveraging its scale and services portfolio a formidable challenge.
Apr. 30, 2010 | Report | by Andy Castonguay
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The Mobile Device Shipment Monitor & Forecast tracks wireless vendors and forecasts sell-in and sell-through of mobile devices by feature,
technology and technical components.
Apr. 28, 2010 | Data Module | by Andy Castonguay | CO-AUTHORS: Wally Swain
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As a fan of all things connected -- and I do mean, getting all things in our lives connected, as that's a foundational element of Yankee Group's Anywhere vision -- I have mixed feelings about the recent spate of network operator announcements in the marketplace about M2M (machine-to-machine connecti...
April 27, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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The minute I saw an iPad for the first time in January, I thought to myself, "Those would make great Anywhere devices for health-care workers in hospit...
April 23, 2010 | Blog | by Carl Howe
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CTIA Wireless 2010 highlighted a renewed focus on the business market for operators. Sprint made waves with its WiMAX-capable EVO smartphone, T-Mobile announced plans to get in the mobile broadband game, and AT&T launched new mobile application functionality for iPhone focusing on industry-specific requirements.
Apr. 5, 2010 | Report | by Eugene Signorini
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The Asia-Pacific ConnectedView Forecast features users, ARPU and revenue summaries, prepaid and postpaid segmentations, voice/data segmentations and technology splits including handset sales.
Mar. 31, 2010 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay
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The Global ConnectedView by Activity Forecast collates fixed-line and cellular activity at the country level globally, compiling information by end-user activity.
Mar. 31, 2010 | Data Module | by Declan Lonergan | CO-AUTHORS: Carl Howe, Vince Vittore, Joshua Holbrook, Camille Mendler, Christopher Collins, Jon Paisner, Andy Castonguay, Eugene Signorini, Wally Swain
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The Global ConnectedView by Technology Forecast collates fixed-line and cellular activity at the country level globally, compiling information by connectivity technology.
Mar. 31, 2010 | Data Module | by Declan Lonergan | CO-AUTHORS: Carl Howe, Vince Vittore, Joshua Holbrook, Camille Mendler, Christopher Collins, Jon Paisner, Andy Castonguay, Eugene Signorini, Wally Swain
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Yankee Group has been talking to consumers, enterprises and corporate decision-makers directly for 40 years, but our approach to primary research has evolved in response to the rapid pace of innovation and transformation wrought by ubiquitous connectivity. How Yankee Group conducts primary research--and what we learn from it--has exciting implications for technology and communication providers.
Mar. 31, 2010 | Report | by Christopher Collins | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth
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The Research Topic Mobile Devices tracks and forecasts wireless vendors; sales of mobile devices by feature, technology and technical components; and average selling price.
Mar. 30, 2010 | Data Module | by Andy Castonguay | CO-AUTHORS: Wally Swain
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The EMEA ConnectedView Forecast contains all forecasts for consumers and enterprises across mobile and fixed-line segments in one file, structured in an Activity view and a Technology view. Look for the associated monitors in separate Excel files.
Mar. 30, 2010 | Data Module | by Declan Lonergan | CO-AUTHORS: Camille Mendler, Andy Castonguay
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The North America Enterprise Forecast identifies how demand for broadband, Internet access and IP VPN services will drive most of the growth. We expect enterprise convergence, VoIP and the adoption of carrier-based IP VPNs to drive the market.
Mar. 29, 2010 | Data Module | by Joshua Holbrook | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay, Eugene Signorini
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The North America ConnectedView Forecast provides market data, including subscribers, contracts, technologies and handset sales through data applications, content provider revenue and consumer/business splits.
Mar. 29, 2010 | Data Module | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Vince Vittore, Joshua Holbrook, Christopher Collins, Andy Castonguay, Eugene Signorini