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The Next Wave: Wireless Convergence

Computing is undergoing a historic shift from stationary computing to mobile computing. Time zones, geography and distance are increasingly irrelevant as wireless technologies change the fabric of business and society, just as the boundaries between laptop computers, wireless phones, PDAs and messaging devices—the very tools of the information economy—are increasingly blurred. Wireless convergence is here.

No longer bound by the walls of corporate headquarters, business professionals equipped with industry-leading wireless handhelds and software are increasingly able to do business anywhere, anytime—with instant mobile access to all corporate information and applications. Those enterprises that embrace and manage wireless convergence will realize improved productivity and increased competitive advantage.

Far from being a futuristic ideal, converged wireless solutions are being adopted by mobile professionals today as more and more business is conducted out of the office. Wireless convergence is going mainstream:

• Forty percent of workers now travel for business, a fi gure that will rise to two-thirds by 2007. (IDC)

• There are 30.3 million mobile professionals worldwide today, growing to 41.1 million by 2007. Only 8 percent are enabled for mobile e-mail today, but this number will rise to 21 percent by 2007. (Gartner)

• According to IDC, "CRM and SFA applications...are seen as beachheads to be deployed within an enterprise after e-mail.".....