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Blue Dot Evaluated in MarketScope for Packaged Mobile Application Platforms

Blue Dot was rated Positive in the MarketScope for Packaged Mobile Application Platforms

Denver, CO – February 24, 2009 – Blue Dot, a leading provider of enterprise mobile software, tools, and services, today announced that Gartner has evaluated Blue Dot in their new MarketScope for Packaged Mobile Application Platforms report.

The MarketScope reflected on Gartner’s insight providing enterprises with market insight when they elect to buy, rather than build, mobile application functionality. Packaged mobile application platforms fill an important place in the application and wireless technology landscape, offering quick-to-deploy, agile solutions that extend business software to highly mobile workers. Within the MarketScope, the selected vendors offer complete mobile applications or mobile application suites that target enterprise users involved in task-oriented business processes, such as field service, logistics, inspections, sales, delivery or inventory management.

Blue Dot’s mNOW!® Mobile Framework 2008 (mNOW! 2008) is a packaged mobile application platform that fully integrates with existing enterprise systems and enables IT resources to rapidly create flexible mobile solutions across all lines of business. Specifically, mNOW! 2008 is leveraged to implement real-world mNOW!-based mobile solutions and applications which are used across a wide range of industries, vertical markets and geographies. "Over the last eighteen months, Blue Dot has made significant progress evolving our Packaged Mobile Application Platform, striking a healthy balance offering a sophisticated mobile application development toolkit with real-world mobile solution capabilities" states Gary Blohm, Co-Founder and Partner with Blue Dot.

According to the Gartner MarketScope, they believe the adoption of Packaged Mobile Application Platforms will continue to grow at a solid pace, faster than that of organizations opting to build mobile solutions themselves.

The full Gartner MarketScope for Packaged Mobile Application Platforms report is available at www.gartner.com

About the MarketScope
The MarketScope is copyrighted February 12, 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors’ measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability of fitness for a particular purpose.

  1. Gartner, Inc. "MarketScope for Packaged Mobile Application Platforms" by William Clarke and Michael King, February 12, 2009

About Blue Dot
Blue Dot is a growing and successful enterprise mobile software, products and services company serving a wide range of industries, vertical markets and enabling business partners. Blue Dot’s flagship product is the industry-leading mNOW!® Mobile Framework 2008 (mNOW! 2008), a packaged mobile application platform that integrates with existing enterprise applications and systems to rapidly create flexible mobile solutions across all lines of an organization’s business.


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