2. Big Business is Driving Technology
Change
• United States business is heavily invested:
• Verizon forecasts 4G for its entire 3G footprint by
end of 2013
• Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion
• Google buys Motorola for $12.5 Billion
3. Government is Driving Change
• President signs an Executive Order in November 2011
• Commits Federal Agencies immediately to transition to
a digital government
• Directs the Federal government to update records management
policies and practices for the digital age.
• Plan for how to archive materials
• Work towards a more open government
• Assign roles and accountability within agencies
4. Government is Driving Change
• Executive Order “Presidential Memorandum -- Managing
Government Records”
• The government will need to account for massive amounts
of digital data
• New archival file types?
• New storage technologies?
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5. Consumers are Driving Change
• Apple’s IPhone revenue larger than Microsoft’s entire revenue
• Microsoft launches its tablet computer “Surface”
• Forrester Research predicts tablets will become the primary
computer device by 2016
• IDC and Gartner show PC sales falling by 8% last quarter
compared to last year (both desktop and laptop)
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7. Consumers: Trend in Screen Sizes
• Screen size converging at 5½” to 6½”
• Easy to “consume” information
• Less expensive than laptop computer or tablet
• LG Optimus G: 5.5”
• Samsung Note II: 5.5”
• Potential impact how you collect
and present information
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8. Property Assessment Leadership Survey 2012
• Will adoption of mobile data capture and sensing technology
impact your employees? (yes / no)
• 79% - Yes
• Will “virtualization” substantially improve your company’s
operational efficiency? (yes / no)
• 82% - Yes
• Will the adoption and use of new technologies be a burden to--
or free up--your workforce?
• 78% - Free up workforce
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10. Mobile Device Work Related Activities
Function 2010
Email 96%
Voice 92%
Calendar 71%
Navigation & directions 60%
Text messaging 56%
Document review 55%
Photography 49%
Finding a place to eat 32%
Locate research facilities 24%
Note taking 19%
Tracking time allocation 13%
Video 10% Page 10
11. How Mobile Technology Change Can
Impact Your Business
• Site Visit
• Records Review
• Reporting
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13. “Map Wars” Will Drive Innovation
• Google Maps arrived in 2005
• 2007: Street View
• 2009: Google Maps Navigation
• Today: 50% of Google Maps traffic comes from mobile phones
• “Microsoft Maps” arrived in 2005
• Today: Finished aerial photos of the entire US at high resolution
• Apple’s Mapping arrived 2012
• 2012: Becomes the largest company in US history
• Today: Apologizes for its mapping
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14. Future Map Wars
• Focus on
• Building interiors
• 3 dimensional model of the world
• Augmented reality
• Continuous information on location
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15. Google “My Tracks” Mobile Application
• Mobile Phone built in GPS means you
can:
• Capture your path
• Marks points of interest
• Upload and save
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16. “Glympse” Mobile Application
• Mobile Phone Internet connection means
you can :
• Send you location to others
• Track progress on Web page and Phone
• Observe progress of colleagues
• Perform “fleet management”
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17. “Skitch” Mobile Application
• Larger screens, high quality graphics
and UI means:
• Capture Site Photos and Maps
• Draw on top while on site
• Create diagrams
• Upload results
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18. “Smart Measure” Mobile Application
• Phone camera means:
• You can take horizontal and vertical measurements
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21. Mobile Aerial Reconnaissance
• UAV technology is rapidly advancing
• Recon with quadcopters
• Structurally unsafe building?
• 10,000-acre site?
• Alligators and hobos?
• FAA drafting rules for UAV in US airspace
• Privacy a big issue, but limited legal framework
28. Print Independent Documents
• Today’s assessment documents are optimized for print….
• 8 ½ x 11, paginated, Table of Contents, etc.
• But they generally are not printed!
• The proliferation of small devices may alter documents
• Users will prefer documents optimized for their screens
• 8 ½ x 11 document layout will increasingly become irrelevant
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29. Print Independent Documents
• Mobile software applications divide their content into
hierarchical sections
• Assessment reports divide their content into hierarchal
sections
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30. What Firms Will Have an Advantage?
1. Those that leverage mobile to save themselves time
2. Those that save their customer’s time
3. Those that optimize information for devices customers use
• Does it make sense to optimize for print?
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