The Mobile Inbox Reaping The Rewards Of Wireless David Koretz President & CEO, BlueTie, Inc.
The Wireless Market More than 15 million wireless users in US 329 million wireless Internet users worldwide by 2004 (IDC) Who are the Major Players in the Market?
The Wireless Market SMS has 66% of the market Number of US Users¹: Smart Phones (Nokia 9000): Less than 50,000 PDA (Palm m705): 250,000 Web-Enabled (WAP) Phones: 4,000,000 SMS-enabled phones: 65,000,000 ¹ Yankee Group
Technologies Available Palm Wireless PQA Expensive & Proprietary 19.2K data transfer Must download PQA to Palm Blackberry RIM Pocket PC with GPRS
Building Technology that Customers Want & Need Most Important/Most Requested Features MYTH: One platform will prevail
Key to Technology: User Experience Reduce/Eliminate Downloads Limit Data Push to Key Data Figure out Attachments Ability to Respond to Messages Intelligent Push
Wireless Case Study: Visiting Nurses of Brooklyn Increasing communication between field & office staff Achieving HIPAA compliance in wireless “Recently, we deployed Novasync’s Pocket Point of Care, a PDA driven system for our clinicians to document their visits, the next logical step was to provide for connectivity utilizing rather traditional office products like , calendars, etc.; that’s where BlueTie came in.” Customer at a Glance: Visiting Nurses Regional Health Care System, Inc.’s 950 employees treat patients that are discharged from an acute care setting that require skilled professional care in the home. Website:
Emerging Technologies SIM Toolkit Embedded JAVA (J2ME & MxEx) BlueTooth EDGE 3G
The Future of the Industry Wireless Sync Real-Time Sync/Direct Connect Text-to-Speech Speech-to-Text “Aware” Networks
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