"Ovum predicts that global sales of MDM solutions will surge by 140% to $105 million this year. The global market is expected to hit $434 million by 2009, nearly a tenfold increase from $44 million in 2005, as operators increasingly invest in new and advanced MDM solutions and upgrade existing systems. Meanwhile, the Asia-Pacific market is forecast to grow from 13.4 million in 2005 to $138 million by 2009...
'It is not clear that operators truly understand the benefits of an MDM solution,' Yoshiaki Matsuda, Innopath's president in Japan, told Wireless Asia. 'Some MDM functionality is definitely understood - configuration and remote settings, application downloads. But there is a poor understanding of how other applications map to particular benefits.'...
The upside is that vendors are now converging toward a mainstream market opportunity, which is centered around MDM server solutions. And there is a consensus among vendors and operators that such a solution needs to handle a wide range of MDM applications, rather than being hard-wired to support just one or two."
