Yankee Group shares analyst insights on industry news daily in our free Mobile Now e-newsletter. Our Directions reports review the insights from the past month and provide an overview of the trends we see emerging in the space. The mobile applications and cloud ecosystem certainly heated up in April, with a raft of interesting and important announcements. Mobile cloud momentum, enterprise vendors intensifying their mobility focus and mobile CRM all fell at the top of the bill.

We live in an accelerated world — technology has made the world smaller, and faster. Organizations in every industry are hard-pressed to keep up, placing a premium on those tools and practices which accelerate the delivery of business information required to make better informed and faster decisions. Mobile technologies have advanced rapidly, liberating that information from the confines of the desktop, delivering that data to smartphones and tablets at the frontlines of the organization, where fully-informed decisions can be made in real time. These essential capabilities provide critical decision support when and where it matters: in the field, on the [...]