At Least 70% of the Mobile Workforce, or 35 Million U.S. Workers, Is the Minimal Addressable Market for Wireless E-Mail Solutions, Says Yankee Group

At Least 70% of the Mobile Workforce, or 35 Million U.S. Workers, Is the Minimal Addressable Market for Wireless E-Mail Solutions, Says Yankee Group: "At Least 70% of the Mobile Workforce, or 35 Million U.S. Workers, Is the Minimal Addressable Market for Wireless E-Mail Solutions, Says Yankee Group

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2004--
U.S. corporate wireless e-mail market remains relatively untapped




E-mail is the most common business application U.S. mobile workers use on a daily basis, according to the Yankee Group 2004 Corporate Wireless Survey. Whether enterprise IT executives and decision-makers realize it or not, the majority of their mobile workforce has an inherent requirement for wireless access to e-mail.
'The key for IT decision-makers is not whether wireless e-mail is necessary, but how wireless e-mail can be deployed and managed cost-effectively,' says Eugene Signorini, Yankee Group Wireless/Mobile Enterprise & Commerce program manager. 'Driven by the core requirements of their mobile workers, the vast majority of U.S. businesses cite e-mail as a driver for a wireless wide-area data solution. Various wireless e-mail solutions and delivery models exist in the market, and most businesses are still evaluating the right configuration for their deployments.'
The majority of wireless e-mail solutions fall into one of three categories: desktop client solutions, behind-the-firewall solutions and carrier-hosted solutions. "