Enterprises’ tablet adoption rate allows gamified solutions

The integration of tablet devices into our lives and, especially, into our work has progressed rapidly — so fast that it’s hard to figure it out.

Venturebeat.com, in collaboration with Lenovo and Qualcomm, provided an infographic (see it below) to describe how much the tablet devices market grew in terms of number of adopters both consumers and business so far.

The Italian market, in particular, has been fostered by the strong growth. According to the Polytechnic of Milan (research results have been exposed during the conference ‘Mobile Business: Innovazione a Tavoletta’), nearly 3 of 4 Italian CEOs have already introduced or are introducing new tablet devices in their enterprises: the 47% of them is already adopting tablet devices, and 27% are going to adopt this technology in the near future. Executives use tablet devices already (55%) and a few of them is going to adopt them in the future (38%), A portion of the sales staff is already using them (17%) but most of it will receive tablets (74%) in the near future. Together with the new tablet market, growth involves also application mobile downloads.

The impressive growth-rate of enterprises which are choosing and adopting tablet devices and smartphone always connected, allows the efficiency and effectiveness of game-based marketing initiatives directed to employees, like productivity games and e-learning games

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Why companies must have a mobile marketing strategy

What is mobile marketing?
Mobile Marketing Association says: “Mobile Marketing is a set of practices that enables organizations to communicate and engage with their audience in an interactive and relevant manner through any mobile device or network”.
Mobile marketing allows for a meaningful, personal, and long lasting dialogue with customers, driving engagement with brands and enhancing affinity for them.
Mobile marketing tactics mainly consists of SMS and MMS, Mobile Web, Native or Web-based Applications development, Mobile Advertising, In-Game Mobile Advertising.

Why companies must have a mobile marketing strategy

1. Internet will be more and more Mobile
According to Nielsen, the U.S. mobile Web grew at an average rate of 2% month over month in 2009. At this rate, combined with the accelerated adoption of smartphones and mobile-optimized sites, by the end of 2010, the mobile Web will reach more than one-half of the consumers on the wired Web. Read More