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An Empowered Report: 2D Bar Codes: Learn Why There's No Urgency
2D bar codes have captured the attention of eBusiness professionals in many industries who are looking to bridge the gap between online and offline media. The stakes are high. Those who execute well...
How many of you are still outsourcing your mobile application development because your internal technology "just doesn't get it"? I interviewed 25 eBusiness professionals in 2012 about their...

Choosing The Right Approach For Your Target Consumers
Consumers' spending on products and services via mobile devices, as well as their increasing reliance on them for product research, is intensifying the mobile imperative for retailers. Forrester...
Broad Reach Among Consumers Demands That Mobile Messaging Is In The Mix
Ten to 15 years ago, SMS offered the only pragmatic mobile data service: it had broad reach, standardization, and carrier interoperability. Today, companies have more choices including application...

Customer Intelligence Professionals Need Mobile Analytic Tactics
Consumers will adopt and use convenient services and products. On mobile phones, this means services that offer immediacy and simplicity through a highly contextual experience. Context — the...
eBusiness Pros Should Evaluate The Use Of Mobile Augmented Reality To Simplify Services
Mobile augmented reality (AR) is on the verge of becoming a powerful tool that eBusiness professionals can use to engage consumers all the way through their purchase journey. The use of augmented...

Landscape: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

Let’s take a step back, first. You started as the “mobile person” two to three years ago. You siphoned a hundred thousand dollars or so from the eBusiness team budget and got a...
I was standing out in Union Square in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. It brought back memories of my "crazy lady in Macy's" journey. This time, I was standing on the sidewalk in front of...
An Empowered Report: Invest Modestly And Experiment Broadly
Only 1% of US mobile phone owners have used a 2D bar code scanner in the past three months. It would be hard for any product or service company to claim an urgent need to implement 2D bar codes, but...
This is one of the more creative applications of QR codes - tattoos. $240 to date at $80/tattoo. Given how permanent the code is, I'm wondering if they shouldn't have considered MS Tags -...
Multiyear Strategies And Larger Investments Define This Year
With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

Making Smart Decisions To Support Your Business Needs
This report is a mobile messaging vendor overview designed to provide a framework for narrowing the list of potential vendors that are well suited to meet the needs of your business. Rather than an...

We are a messaging vendor and are thinking about different ways to price our platform/services. What is Forrester's take on a plan?
Delivering highly contextual mobile services is an expectation. Mobile phones are personal devices. Consumers expect personal and relevant experiences. What is context? Forrester defines...
Commonwealth Bank Generates Leads With Convenient Mobile Services
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is generating 1% of its overall mortgage leads by using mobile augmented reality (AR) within a homebuyer's research application to enhance its home-buying service. This...

eBusiness Professionals Must Prepare For New Messaging Paradigms
Mobile messaging is somewhat dull today, but it is on the verge of becoming more interesting as it transitions from a nuts-and-bolts telecom model to an Internet model with rich feature sets....

Apple's announcement today on the "Notification Center" triggered my comments. Other than the fact that I no longer need to tether all of my devices to a computer (finally!), I think this was my...
Choosing An Approach To Meet Your Objectives Cost-Effectively
The browser-based mobile Web experience is more important than ever, with dramatic growth in the usage of the mobile Internet — especially from smartphones — in the past 24 months. In...
An Empowered Report: Understanding The Mobile Behavior Of Your Target Audience
The first step in building or refining a mobile strategy is understanding the mobile behaviors of your target audience. Mobile Technographics offers consumer product strategists a means of obtaining...
Mobile Services And Technology Development Approaches Must Consider Future Needs
Press and vendors hype the Web, evolving technologies such as HTML5, middleware platforms, and tactics like responsive design as the answer to mobile fragmentation and the associated costs of...

Talk of "the year of mobile" is not only passé but also irrelevant. The disruptive forces of mobile arrived more than two years ago and will fundamentally change businesses in the decades to...