Mobile corporate email expected to reach 13.5 million individual users in 2009.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the latest mobile research from IDC, the European mobile corporate emall market will increase to around 13.5 million individual users--employees who use either a laptop/PDA or mobile phone to access email--in 2009, representing a compound annual growth rate of 36%. Although email is the most deployed mobile enterprise application to date, it is still fairly unexploited. Even with the recent success of mobile email devices such as the BlackBerry blackberry, name for several species of thorny plants of the genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae (rose family). See bramble. blackberry , mobile operators are just starting to provide these kinds of applications to the enterprise market on the available devices. "Mobile email solutions should operate as an integrated part of the company's existing system," said Rosie Secchi, senior research analyst, IDC's European Wireless and Mobile Communications program Software that manages the transmission of data between computers, typically via modem and the serial port. Such programs were very popular for connecting to BBSs before the Internet took off. . "Even though email will remain the foundation of business mobility over the forecast period, it is only the beginning of inevitable business developments that will excite (Excite.com, Irvington, NY, www.excite.com) One of the major search engines on the Web founded in 1995 and part of IAC Search & Media. Excite was acquired by Ask Jeeves, Inc. in 2004, which was acquired by IAC in 2005. See Web search engines. market players even more.' Mobile email providers that are deploying mobile email solutions need to consider the value of a broader mobile solution, 'one that would include valuable elements such as mobile device management and mobile security. They should be able to provide a mobile end-to-end offering to customers," said Secchi. IDC's study Corporate Mobile Email in Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). : Forecast and Analysis, 2004-2009 (Doc #HW02M, September 2005) examines email services See Internet e-mail service. for enterprise usage, as this is one of the areas that has seen the most interest from this market segment in the last few years. Western European market sizes are provided for 2004, with trends and a five-year market growth forecast for 2004 to 2009. Information on leading vendors and mobile operators' email offerings is also provided, and the study identifies the characteristics these players need to have in order to be successful in the future. www.idc.com |
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