Mobile Email Revenues Set to Surpass SMS in the $10 Billion Market
From
personal productivity and messaging solutions to mobilized
line-of-business applications, by
the end of the decade more than 41 million North
American business users will spend
over $10 billion annually on wireless enterprise data services, with
mobilized personal productivity tools grabbing the 81% of revenues, according
to Strategy Analytics.
Strategy Analytics in Boston estimates that BlackBerrys handle 59 percent of corporate wireless e-mail traffic. RIM added about 705,000 BlackBerry subscribers in the fiscal second quarter, bringing the total to about 6.2 million Enterprise converged mobile device shipments will reach 63 million units worldwide by 2010, up from 7.3 million in 2005, according to IDC.
Mobilized
line-of-business applications such as CRM and ERP will remain hindered by
high solution deployment and service delivery costs with revenues
approaching $2.0 billion by 2010. SFA solutions will stand out as the
largest e-business opportunity due to more affordable low-end managed
services offered by operators to SME's.
Despite comparatively slower growth than email, Sales Force Automation is
one e-business application that will see wireless handheld access spread
out to nearly 33% of all SFA users by 2010. Companies like Sybase/iAnywhere,
SAP, Siebel, Sendia/Salesforce.com, Entellium, Pyxis and Vaultus are all
working to move the US mobile SFA market forward faster.
