Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: BRC Consultancy
Published: April 2007
Product Code: R31-10Description Mobile handsets and similar devices are evolving rapidly as suppliers strive to combine the capabilities of a personal computers, personal digital assistants and mobile handsets on the same devices. The growth of Windows Mobile adds to the momentum, increasing the options for extending enterprise systems to mobiles.
Enterprise Mobile Strategies explains how the many components fit together to form complete enterprise solutions that cover personal information management, e-mail, web browsing, and mobile access to applications such as Lotus, Oracle and SAP. It then explains the decisions that IT executives need to take, and compares the alternatives at each level from an enterprise viewpoint. The comparisons cover enterprise capabilities of technologies such as Linux, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile, and the offerings of major players such as Orange and Verizon. The report also outlines likely market developments.
Report helps:
- IT managers in large organizations plan new ways of improving productivity through the latest developments in enterprise mobile data.
- Suppliers wanting a comprehensive overview of the market from an enterprise viewpoint, to compare what’s on offer, and identify opportunities for offering more complete services to enterprise customers.
- Anyone wanting a deeper understanding to help them predict winners, losers and market developments.
The report saves the time and cost of attending a myriad of seminars or researching this complex market in-house. Drawing from long experience of the IT industry and board-level client presentations, BRC has sifted large quantities of information on latest mobile developments and distilled it into an incisive report focused on what’s important to international enterprises. Its 60 pages contain the type of distilled text and diagrams that executives demand to support decisions.
Key takeaways of this new report
- Components of a complete mobile enterprise solution.
- Analysis of the requirements and buying criteria important to enterprise customers.
- Comparisons against these criteria of technology options in each key area: mobile device operating systems, tools for extending corporate middleware to mobile devices, and mobile carrier technologies.
- Profiles of leading providers promoting mobile solutions for multinational enterprise customers, in terms of strategic objectives, propositions, partnerships for developing enterprise solutions, policies on mobile technologies, and service packages.
- Tables showing deployment worldwide of high speed data services by subsidiaries or roaming partners of each leading operator group, revealing whose infrastructure is best positioned to support multinational solutions. (Includes AT&T, Hutchison/3, O2/Telefonica, Orange, TIM, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone.)
- Conclusions on the best technologies for different needs, and the factors driving or hindering their take-up.
- Key decisions and steps involved in deploying enterprise mobile solutions.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- New Mobile Opportunities for Enterprises
- Different End User Types
- COMPONENTS OF ENTERPRISE MOBILE SOLUTIONS
- Application Software
- Extensions of Corporate Middleware
- Mobile Operating Systems
- Networks and Hardware
- Additional Elements
- REQUIREMENTS OF EACH USER TYPE AND THE IT DEPARTMENT
- DECISIONS FACING IT DEPARTMENTS
- APPLICATION SOLUTIONS FOR PIM AND STAYING IN CONTACT
- Personal Information Management
- Push Email
- Web Access
- TOOLS FOR EXTENDING CORPORATE MIDDLEWARE TO MOBILE DEVICES
- Lotus
- Oracle
- SAP
- Microsoft
- Comparison
- MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEMS
- Linux
- RIM/Blackberry
- Symbian
- Windows Mobile
- Comparison
- CARRIER TECHNOLOGIES
- GSM
- GPRS
- EDGE
- UMTS/3G
- HSPA (or HSDPA)
- WiMax
- WiFi/Wlan
- Comparison
- MOBILE DEVICE OPTIONS
- Limited Mobile Data (SMS, Simple WAP with PIN Security)
- Simple Mobile Data (PIM with Additional Device Security)
- Extended Mobile Data (Interfacing to Corporate Middleware)
- Office Grade Mobile Data
- ADDITIONAL SOLUTION ELEMENTS
- Consistent User Interface
- Access Choice Optimisation
- Custom Applications
- Remote Device Management
- LEADING SUPPLIERS PROMOTING MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS
- AT&T
- Fiberlink
- iPass
- Orange
- Verizon
- EDGE, 3G & HSPA COVERAGE OF INTERNATIONAL OPERATOR GROUPS
- CONCLUSIONS
- Technologies & Services for Different Needs
- Likely Evolution of Technologies & Services
- Task & Cost Elements Involved in Building a Solution
- List of Tables and Charts
- Components of a Complete Enterprise Mobile Solution
- Networks and Hardware Underpinning Typical Solutions
- Networks and Hardware Underpinning RIM/Blackberry Push Email
- Requirements of IT Departments and Each User Type
- Decisions Facing IT Departments
- Tools for Extending Corporate Middleware to Each Major Mobile Operating System
- Comparison of Mobile Device Operating Systems
- Data Speeds and Applications of Each Carrier Technology
- Data Service Roll-out by Country and Operator - Europe
- Data Service Roll-out by Country and Operator - Americas
- Data Service Roll-out by Country and Operator - Asia
- Tasks & Cost Elements Involved in Building a Solution
- Several of these table and charts fill one page, giving a comprehensive, at-a-glance presentation of each top
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