AT&T Creates Advanced Enterprise Mobility
Solutions Group to Focus on Applications and Solutions for Workplaces of
All Sizes
Company Appoints Veteran Officer to Lead Initiative to Help Mobilize
Businesses and Organizations
DALLAS/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T* today said it is
creating a new group within its Business Solutions unit to accelerate
the delivery of advanced mobile applications and solutions for
traditional and emerging devices to businesses, governments and
organizations of all sizes globally. The group - to be called Advanced
Enterprise Mobility Solutions - will complement AT&T's Emerging
Devices Organization which focuses on devices that are wirelessly
enabled for consumers.
Michael Antieri has been named President of the Advanced Enterprise
Mobility Solutions unit and assumes responsibility for the development,
sales and deployment of mobile applications and solutions for
organizations whose workforces and customers are increasingly doing
business "on the go" using all kinds of connected devices - both
traditional and emerging devices.
"Companies today are more mobile than ever, traveling to clients,
working from remote locations, using devices to communicate while on the
move, and wirelessly connecting devices to each other," said Ron
Spears, President and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions. "With millions
of workers now using smartphones, netbooks and rugged devices, and with
multiple industries now adopting machine-to-machine applications, we
see a tremendous opportunity to bring the power of our networking
expertise and assets to help companies everywhere 'go mobile' by
mobilizing their business processes to take advantage of real-time
information and transactions to do business more efficiently and
productively."
U.S. businesses are increasingly depending on mobile applications.
Industry analyst firm IDC(1) found that there were more than 450 million
mobile Internet users worldwide in 2009, a number that is expected to
more than double by the end of 2013. In addition, according to IDC(2),
the United States has the highest percentage of mobile workers today -
growing to an estimated 75 percent of workers by 2013.
Over the last two years, AT&T has tripled the number of business
subscribers who are using integrated devices. In the last year alone,
the company has seen a 60 percent increase in business subscribers, as
"enterprise-class" devices and applications continue to proliferate
within a host of industries, including manufacturing, financial
services, consumer packaged goods, retail, trade, construction,
transportation, government education and healthcare.
Antieri, a 31-year company veteran, will head the new Advanced
Enterprise Mobility Solutions business unit focused on delivering
mobility solutions specific to these industries. The unit will work with
developers and third-party providers to help co-innovate and deliver
applications in a network and cloud-based environment that easily allows
them to extend new services down to any desired device.
"Very few players in the industry have the breadth of AT&T assets
and the capillary density of AT&T's distribution channels to reach
out and touch customers across of the enterprise, small business and
government spaces," said Michael Antieri, President, Advanced Enterprise
Mobility Solutions, AT&T Business Solutions. "Building upon
AT&T's already successful Emerging Devices Organization, we will
work closely with the AT&T EDO team to harness their strengths and
investments, and work with businesses to mobilize their applications,
transform their business processes and capture the potential
opportunities that M2M technology offers."
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and not by AT&T Inc.
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(1) Source: IDC, Worldwide Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast,
December 2009
(2) Source: IDC, Worldwide Mobile Worker Population 2009-2013
Forecast, Doc # 221309, December 2009
Source: AT&T Inc.
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