Heres what you need to know Creating increased demand for mobile applications The proportion of companies increasing their budgets for mobile applications has almost doubled from 28% to 51%. 5 Mobile phone time spent on apps: 4 By 2015, the number of mobile app downloads is projected to reach 98 billion. 6 Mobile is exploding In 2014, more users will connect to the Internet over mobile devices than desktop PCs. 1 1.2 billion smartphones will enter the market over the next ve years, about 40% of all handset shipments. 2 6 billion mobile subscriptions were active at the end of 2011, equivalent to 87% of the worlds population. 3 These trends are impacting enterprises Heres how you can take control See how HP can help you United Airlines discusses how mobile application monitoring using HP Business Service Management software enables it to keep its customers happy Watch now Implement a user-centric mobile app monitoring strategy to: Monitor the end-user experience from the mobile device Proactively detect performance issues Isolate issues precisely and quickly Eliminate wasteful war room meetings Use real-user experience data to improve apps 88% of employees are using their personal devices for business. 7 30% of organizations have or are implementing a private app store. 8 Many organizations are unprepared for mobile monitoring Performance can make or break a mobile app Only 30% of organizations have implemented any kind of mobile application performance infrastructure or strategy. 13 48% of organizations listed performance as their main priority for mobile testing. 14
1. Mary Meeker, Internet Trends, April 2010, Morgan Stanley. 2. ABI Research. 3. The International Telecommunication Union, November 2011. 4. The Digital Revolution: A Look Through the Marketers Lens, April 2012, Nielsen. 5. Chris Marsh, Mobility Outlook 2013, November 2012, Yankee Group. 6. The Mobile Application Market, October 2011, Berg Insight. 7. Global Survey: Dispelling Six Myths of Consumerization of IT, January 2012, Avenade. 8. 2012 State of Mobility Survey, Symantec. 9. Mobile Operating System, Wikipedia. 10. Count from Android forums as of April 11, 2012. 11. iOS version history, Wikipedia. 12. Android version history, Wikipedia. 13. The Challenge of Application Performance in a Mobile Application World, July 2012, The Aberdeen Group. 14. World Quality Report, 201213, Capgemini and HP. 15. Online survey conducted within the U.S. by Harris Interactive on behalf of Compuware APM from October 1416, 2013. 16. Google I/O Keynote, May 2013. Copyright 2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. 4AA5-0703ENW, February 2014 64% 0% 20% 40% 60% 28% 51% $ The explosion introduces challenges to IT departments trying to develop, test, and support mobile apps there are 7 common operating platforms on the market 9 ...dierent cloud services and ISPs... ...and dierent mobile carriers There are 420 active models of Android mobile phones, 10 and there have been 29 versions of Android released since 2007. 12 There have been 18 versions of iOS released since 2007. 11 OS 1 OS 2 OS 3 OS 4 OS 5 OS 6 OS 7 The chaos makes proactively monitoring from a xed location very dicult. 1 2 3 Poor ratings If you are unprepared, you will likely experience: Lost revenue High user abandonment rates 29% of mobile users who have a poor online shopping experience are likely to complain on social media. 15 37% of consumers will shop elsewhere if a mobile site or app fails to load in 3 seconds. 15 The abandonment rate for mobile shopping carts is 97%, compared to 70% for desktop carts. Performance is a signicant abandonment factor. 16 W h e n
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