From Hardware Manufacturer to Service Provider

This whitepaper is for manufacturers of mobile phones, tablets, automotive vehicles, consumer electronics and other wirelessly connected devices (in the paper, described as “mobile devices”) that are interested in using their hardware products as platforms from which to deliver value-added services.

The paper describes how Mobile Software Management (MSM) can be used to achieve this strategy. With MSM, manufacturers can leverage a range of over-the-air technologies—firmware updating, application management, device analytics, policy management and Type-1 virtualization—both as differentiating features that can strengthen their offerings and as services to their customers.

Readers will learn from case studies of how to successfully use MSM to deliver new integrated services.