US Mobile Business Applications Expenditures By Size of Business, 2010-2015

This Excel-based Data-rich Deliverable (DRD) that is part of the Applications Market, Business Wireless subscriptions includes market forecasts on expenditures on Mobile Applications in the US. Mobile Applications consists of business expenditures on mobile and wireless-based custom-coded and packaged applications, including productivity, Enterprise Resource Planning, Email, CRM and security applications. Hosted or rented applications do not fall in this category of IT spending, but are considered ""Outsourcing & 3rd Party Services."" Size of business includes SOHO (1-4 employees), Small Business (5-99 employees), Mid-Sized Business (100-999 employees), Enterprise Business (Over 1000 employees). The Expert Guide for this deliverable is Stephanie Atkinson. Forecasts are from 2009 through 2014 and include annual growth rates, as well as percentage of total market.

As mobility becomes an important part of conducting business, mobile applications within the business domain will continue to grow. Whereas smaller-sized businesses find mobility a great enabler to set up and run their businesses while negating issues such as location, productivity etc.; larger businesses derive value from the fact that location does not act as a barrier in realization of resources. While businesses of all sizes value mobility, the mobile application developers find their chief investors in the small and mid-sized business segments. It is conceivable that security considerations in larger businesses may act as impediment in embracing mobility while SOHO businesses may just not have the resources required to leverage the full value of mobile access.