NW500 survey: More handheld devices, please

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: KEITH SHAW ON WIRELESS COMPUTING
DEVICES
07/07/05
Today's focus: NW500 survey: More handheld devices, please

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Today's focus: NW500 survey: More handheld devices, please

By Keith Shaw

Today, we continue our analysis of the trends from this year's
Network World 500 study, a survey of 500 network IT executives
that asks them about their IT spending habits for the next year.
In this issue, we'll look at responses regarding handheld
devices.

Trend 5: Companies still like PDAs. Improvements in wireless
technology, form factors and improved platforms are keeping
companies interested in PDAs, the survey says. On average, about
23% of an organization's workforce have PDAs. Only 6% of
companies surveyed do not have any workers with PDAs.

Trend 6: We have a way to go on the types of applications being
accessed on handheld devices. When asked what percentage of
workers can use their PDAs to access a core business application
beyond e-mail, the numbers are much lower. On average, only 14%
of mobile workers are accessing core business applications with
a PDA. More interesting, 42% of respondents said that none of
their workers are using PDAs to access anything beyond e-mail.

Trend 7: PDA access to core business applications can improve
productivity. Those companies that did have employees accessing
business apps with PDAs (other than e-mail) gave several reasons
why they are doing this. At the top of the list is increase in
worker productivity (72.1%), followed by improved customer
satisfaction (61.8%), being able to process transactions quicker
(41.2%) and saving money on transactions (36.8%).

Trend 8: Device purchasing will go up next year. About 46% of
companies plan to increase the amount of spending on handheld
devices next year, and 43.2% plan to spend the same amount as
they did this year. On average, companies will buy 354 devices
in the next year, and 45% of companies responding will buy at
least 100 devices.

Trend 9: Notebooks rule, but wireless PDAs show interest as
well. When asked about the types of devices they plan on buying
in the next year, laptops/notebooks comes in first (76.2%),
which is no surprise. However, 72.3% said they would be
purchasing wireless PDAs, such as BlackBerry devices; and 57.4%
said they would purchase regular PDAs (Palm, Pocket PC, iPAQ,
etc.). Only 47.5% said they would be buying Web-enabled digital
phones, and 37.6% said they would be purchasing converged
PDA/phones, such as the Treo or Nokia 6800. Just under a half
(44.6%) said they would be purchasing tablet PCs in the next 12
months.

Methodology note: The study was conducted by Network World and
Research Concepts. Four different surveys were administered
simultaneously in March 2005 to a total of 500 different
organizations. Data collection was monitored to ensure that 125
qualified people responded to each section, so for individual
categories (mobile computing included), results are based on 125
interviews. To qualify, companies had to have multiple sites
with internetworked LANs and WANs, and have annual
networking-related expenditures of more than $10 million.
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To contact: Keith Shaw

Keith Shaw is Senior Editor, Product Testing, at Network World.
In addition, he writes the " Cool Tools
<http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/cooltools.html> "
column, which looks at gizmos, gadgets and other mobile
computing devices.

You can reach Keith at <mailto:kshaw@nww.com>.
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This newsletter is sponsored by Good Technology
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Wireless mobility is always changing. Managing this change on a
corporate level requires both a technical understanding and
managerial control. Are security, integration, optimization,
and support considered? Download this report now to gain
important information for both technical and business decision
maker's on how to manage wireless mobility technology from the
top down. Click here:
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=107785
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