Study: Wireless Enterprise Apps to Reach $66B Over 5 years

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The transformation of various enterprise applications from fixed to mobile access technology will generate more than $66 billion in carrier service revenue over the next five years, according to the latest report of Insight Research Group titled “The Mobile Workforce and Enterprise Applications 2007-2012".

 

Various enterprise applications have already been transforming into mobility environment. By the end of 2007, service revenues generated by mobile applications traversing wired and wireless networks in the US will reach just over $9 billion; by 2012, the value of services revenue supporting those applications is forecast to grow to nearly $13 billion, according to the study.

 

The report cited consolidation of the telecommunications industry and job growth in the services sector as being the primary reasons wireless enterprise applications are growing.. Moreover, the growth rate of occupations working outside of corporate offices is becoming higher compared to average employment growth. This triggered consolidation within the telecommunications industry towards delivering integrated wireless applications. 

 

"Analyze AT&T (News - Alert), Sprint, or Verizon and you will find that each company now commands the local, metro, long-haul, and wireless assets required to deliver an end-to-end corporate solution," says Robert Rosenberg, President of Insight, in a statement.

 

 "Equally as important is the fact that these companies are shifting capital expenditures from infrastructure to service control, managed services, and applications. This shift in resource allocations will benefit enterprises looking to mobilize their traditional applications, so in the months ahead we see a real rush to develop mobile applications," Rosenberg concludes.

 

Enterprises are already experiencing the benefits of a mobile workforce and next generation of wireless products and services are needed that force. This invariably leads to a boom in next wireless products industry, according to Insight report.

 

In the recent past, workers became accustomed to the performance of local area networks (LANs) for voice and data communications as well as telecommunications systems. Over the next five years, most industries will move away from a fixed and location-centric work environments such as PBXs, LANs and PCs to a dispersed mobile world where workers are deployed in the location where they are most effective, the report said.  report.