Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 By: Gartner.com Presented by: Majid Heidari
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1. By: Gartner.com Presented by: Majid Heidari
2. Summary We discuss 10 technologies and capabilities that
will be critical to organizations wanting to unlock the full
potential of mobility as part of their digital business
strategy.
3. Key Findings Organizations wishing to unlock the full
potential of mobility must master a wide range of technologies and
skills, many of which are currently unfamiliar to IT staff. The
business and technical opportunities enabled by our "top 10" mobile
technologies and skills should be explicitly addressed in corporate
mobile strategies.
4. Recommendations Use technology road maps and Hype Cycles and
work with Gartner to identify those mobile technologies that will
be important to your organization's mobile strategy. Once you have
identified key mobile technologies, plan to acquire the skills,
tools or partners necessary to exploit them.
5. Recommendations Many mobile technologies and skills will be
rather tactical because of the high rate of commercial and
technical evolution in the mobile domain. Therefore, look for rapid
return on investment from those technologies, and use agile
development processes to ensure you can achieve your goals.
6. Analysis Through 2016, mobile devices and applications will
continue to offer many opportunities for commercial and technical
innovation. They will create new ways to improve process efficiency
and effectiveness inside the organization and will deliver
innovative products, services and customer relationships outside
it.
7. Analysis Unlocking the full potential of mobility requires
the organization to master a wide range of technologies and
capabilities.
8. Analysis In this research, we discuss 10 that should be on
every organization's radar screen. These certainly aren't the only
important technologies; we encourage clients to consult Gartner
Hype Cycles to identify others they should be tracking.
9. Analysis However, we believe these 10 will be important to
virtually every organization, so they should be explicitly
addressed in their mobile strategies.
10. Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and
2016 Multiplatform Multi architecture AD Tools HTML5 Advanced
Mobile UX Design High-Precision Location Sensing Wearable Devices
New Wi-Fi Standards Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM)
Mobile-Connected Smart Objects LTE and LTE-A Metrics and Monitoring
Tools
11. Multiplatform/Multi architecture AD Tools What? Most
organizations will need application development (AD) tools to
support a "3 x 3" future three key platforms (Android, iOS and
Windows) and three application architectures (native, hybrid and
mobile Web using HTML5).
12. Multiplatform/Multi architecture AD Tools Tool selection
will be a complex balancing act trading off many technical and
nontechnical issues such as productivity vs. vendor stability and
most large organizations will need a portfolio of several tools to
deliver to the set of architectures and platforms they
require.
13. When? Many multiplatform development tools are already
available. The market is very crowded and complex, as illustrated
by "Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms."
Market evolution and consolidation will continue through 2018.
14. Magic Quadrant (MQ) The Gartner Magic Quadrant (MQ) is the
brand name for a series of market research reports published by
Gartner Inc., a US-based research and advisory firm. According to
Gartner, the Magic Quadrant aims to provide a qualitative analysis
into a market and its direction, maturity and participants.
15. Who will be impacted? All organizations developing mobile
applications.
16. HTML5 "HTML5" is an umbrella term often used imprecisely to
refer to a set of Web specifications including HTML and related
standards such as SVG, WebGL, Canvas, CSS3, WebSocket, WebRTC and
various technologies for offline data storage within the
browser.
17. HTML5 Modern mobile browsers support a range of these
standards, enabling developers to create sophisticated mobile Web
experiences that in some cases can approach the quality of native
apps.
18. HTML5 When? All smart phones and tablets already support
some version of HTML5, although there are many differences of
detail depending on browser and OS versions. The various sub
standards will continue to evolve for the foreseeable future.
19. Who will be impacted? All organizations developing mobile
applications or websites.
20. Advanced Mobile UX Design What is it and why is it
important? Leading mobile apps are delivering exceptional user
experiences (UXs) achieved with a variety of techniques including
motivational design, "quiet" design, "playful" interfaces and new
methodological approaches such as HEART.
21. Advanced Mobile UX Design When? Now. Leading mobile apps
are already setting high user expectations in both employee- and
consumer-facing situations, and poor user experience is a common
contributor to low app-store ratings.
22. Who will be impacted? High-quality UXs will be particularly
important for organizations delivering consumer-facing mobile apps
that directly impact revenue or customer satisfaction.
23. High-Precision Location Sensing What is it and why is it
important? Knowing an individual's location to within a few meters
is a key enabler for the delivery of highly relevant contextual
information and services. Apps exploiting precise indoor location
currently use technologies such as Wi- Fi, imaging, ultrasonic
beacons and geo magnetics.
24. High-Precision Location Sensing When? Several indoor
location-sensing technologies are available now, and all will
continue to mature through 2018. We expect the use of beacons based
on the low-energy Bluetooth Smart standard to grow in 2014 and 2015
as beacon costs fall and increasing numbers of consumers acquire
handsets that support the necessary Bluetooth technology.
25. Who will be impacted? High-precision location is likely to
be particularly important for organizations that deploy consumer-
facing mobile apps and that own facilities with large areas of
indoor real estate, such as shops, sports stadiums or malls.
26. Wearable Devices What are they and why are they important?
The smart phone will become the hub of a personal-area network
(PAN) consisting of wearable gadgets such as on-body healthcare
sensors, smart jewelry, smart watches, display devices (e.g.,
Google Glass) and a variety of sensors embedded in clothes and
shoes.
27. personal area network (PAN) A personal area network (PAN)
is a computer network used for data transmission among devices such
as computers, telephones and personal digital assistants.
28. Wearable Devices When? In 2014, wearables are dominated by
sports and fitness sensors. Pilots of smart jewelry, such as
pendants with notifier capability, have been demonstrated, as have
a few items of smart clothing containing LEDs that can be
programmed with a smartphone. This is, however, a market in its
very early stages; we expect wearables to grow to be a
multibillion-dollar-a-year market by 2016.
29. Who will be impacted? Industries such as healthcare, sports
and fashion will manufacture wearable devices and use mobile apps
to control the devices and to analyze the information they collect
from them. Organizations will find business uses for wearables with
their employees; for example, they may use the devices for
monitoring, communicating, and assuring health and safety .
30. New Wi-Fi Standards What are they and why are they
important? Emerging Wi-Fi standards such as 802.11ac (Waves 1 and
2), 11ad, 11aq and 11ah will increase Wi-Fi performance, make Wi-Fi
more relevant to applications such as telemetry, and enable Wi-Fi
to provide new services (for example, to citizens in public
locations).
31. New Wi-Fi Standards Over the next three years, demands on
the Wi-Fi infrastructure will increase as more Wi-Fi-enabled
devices appear in organizations, as cellular offloading becomes
more popular and as applications such as location sensing demand
denser access-point placement.
32. New Wi-Fi Standards The opportunities enabled by new
standards and the performance required by new applications will
require many organizations to revise or replace their Wi-Fi
infrastructure.
33. New Wi-Fi Standards When? Pre standard versions of 11ac
Wave 1 can be deployed immediately; other standards will emerge in
production equipment through 2016.
34. Who will be impacted? Any organization with a Wi-Fi
network.
35. Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM) What is it and why is it
important? "Enterprise mobile management" (EMM) is a term that
describes the future evolution and convergence of several current
mobile management, security and support technologies.
36. Enterprise Mobile Management (EMM) These include mobile
device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM),
application wrapping and containerization, and some elements of
enterprise file synchronization and sharing (EFSS). Such tools will
mature, grow in scope and eventually address a wide range of mobile
management needs across all popular operating systems on smart
phones, tablets and PCs.
37. Enterprise Mobile Management When? There are around 160 MDM
tools of various types available today, which, by 2019, will
converge into a much smaller number of mature EMM tools.
38. Who will be impacted? All organizations wishing to manage
and secure mobile devices.
39. Mobile-Connected Smart Objects What are they and why are
they important? By 2020, an affluent household in a mature market
will contain several hundred smart objects, including LED light
bulbs, toys, domestic appliances, sports equipment, medical devices
and controllable power sockets, to name but a few.
40. Mobile-Connected Smart Objects These domestic smart objects
will be a part of the Internet of Things (IoT), and the majority of
them will be able to communicate in some way with an app on a
smartphone or tablet. Smartphones and tablets will perform many
functions, including acting as remote controls, displaying and
analyzing information, interfacing to social networks to monitor
"things" that can tweet or post, paying for subscription services,
ordering replacement consumables and updating object firmware.
41. Mobile-Connected Smart Objects The combination of smart
objects and mobile apps will enable a very wide range of business
opportunities.
42. Mobile-Connected Smart Objects When? A small number of
smart objects and appliances are available in 2014. Examples
include sensors, thermostats and a few items of larger equipment
such as domestic appliances and air- conditioning units. The range
of domestic smart objects will continue to grow through 2025, by
which time any nontrivial piece of equipment or furniture costing
more than $100 will likely contain sensors.
43. Who will be impacted? Any company making equipment or
products that could be monitored or controlled by a smart phone
owner.
44. LTE and LTE-A What are they and why are they important? LTE
and its successor LTE-A are cellular technologies that improve
spectral efficiency and will push cellular networks to theoretical
peak downlink speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
45. LTE and LTE-A Additional benefits include reduced latency.
Real- world LTE speeds tend to be under 100 Mbps and early LTE-A
trials have peaked at around 300 Mbps in best- case conditions. New
features such as LTE Broadcast will enable operators to offer new
services.
46. LTE and LTE-A When? LTE is already partially deployed in
many countries. A few LTE-A trials have been conducted at the end
of 2013, although widespread deployment isn't expected to start
before 2015, as few LTE-A client devices are available. Once
deployment of a technology such as LTE or LTE-A starts, it
typically takes seven to 10 years to achieve nationwide coverage
and user adoption.
47. Who will be impacted? All users of cellular data benefit
from improved bandwidth, reduced latency and increased capacity.
Applications that demand high-speed real-time data such as
streaming video will benefit substantially; so, for example, LTE is
allowing some cellular networks to compete with satellite data for
broadcasting applications.
48. Metrics and Monitoring Tools What are they and why are they
important? It's very difficult to predict all aspects of mobile
application and website usage or performance.
49. Metrics and Monitoring Tools The diversity of mobile
devices makes comprehensive testing impossible, and the
nondeterministic nature of mobile networks and the cloud services
that support them can result in performance bottlenecks. Metrics
and monitoring tools often known as application performance
monitoring (APM) can help.
50. Metrics and Monitoring Tools When? Mobile metrics and
monitoring tools are widely available for apps and mobile websites
from a range of vendors, including Compuware, Crittercism, Keynote
and New Relic .
51. Who will be impacted? Any business for which the quality
and performance of a mobile app or website are important. Examples
include areas such as retail, hospitality, social networking and
financial services.
52. Evidence Information sources used in creating this research
include Gartner market forecasts; discussions with clients, vendors
and colleagues; and internal Gartner estimates for the future
number of domestic smart objects.