This IDC study defines and quantifies the market for mobile enterprise applications. It presents a discussion of the usage models and the taxonomy of a mobile enterprise application solution. It includes a quantification of the market and a five-year forecast for 2006?2010 with a companion view based on the subjective valuation of mobility by enterprise application segment. Profiles of pure-play mobile enterprise applications providers as well as independent software vendors are included.

"Mobile enterprise applications are still in their infancy as organizations and suppliers wrestle with the evolving state of mobile technologies. However, end-user organizations are increasingly deploying mobile solutions to bring consistency to corporate data and business processes by including employees in the field in the applications architecture." ? Mary Wardley, research vice president, CRM applications