• Continuing to show strong signs of growth, the global enterprise mobility market - consisting of mobile hardware, software and services - is expected to reach $33 billion by 2009.
  
  
• Demand for mobility solutions is widespread across a broad cross-section of sectors and industries. Largest opportunities are for field sales and service and government solutions while health care services and professional services represent some of the fastest growing sectors. One of the critical aspects separating successful enterprise mobility suppliers is their ability to understand the operational nuances impacting the markets or industries they sell into. Although companies continue to be on the "lookout" for killer horizontal applications that can be leveraged successfully across multiple industries, the fact remains that many mobility solutions remain highly vertical- or industry-specific in nature.
  
  
• One of the greatest challenges for any organization - large and small - is providing access to accurate information on customers, products, sales, etc. in real time. Within many organizations this information is stored in disconnected informational silos and is frequently inaccurate. In fact, of the end users survey by VDC, almost 50% claim to have poor or incomplete product and customer data.
  
  
• The enterprise mobility competitive environment, while fragmented, is maturing. Continued consolidation is expected among both hardware and software vendors. Moreover, the level of customization required is decreasing as vendors develop more user-friendly configurable or modular solutions.
  
  

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