With mobile devices market exploding, we still dont hear of business apps, other than Blackberry type email? In contrast, the end user market see a huge influx of applications and games.Here is an article that highlight this....Excerpts from the same:

When CIOs try to deploy more core business applications to mobile devices, they run into trouble. "There is a notable lack of end-to-end solutions in the market," said Ellen Daley, vice president and research director at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. "What is needed next is a focus on applications beyond wireless e-mail."

When a CIO wants to deploy business applications to mobile devices, such as sales force automation, customer relationship management or field service applications, he must often gather together software components from several vendors, Gartner Inc. principal analyst Todd Kort said."Why HP, Dell, Nokia, Motorola, Palm, etc. have taken so long to create solutions that might strongly compete with RIM is difficult to comprehend," Kort said. "RIM has had a big target on their back for several years and everyone seems to keep finding ways of missing."

There is certainly a market for mobile enterprise solutions, Daley said. In a report published last year, Daley wrote that the utility, telecommunications, retail, media and healthcare industries are looking to implement business applications on mobile devices.

One reason for the dearth of mobile solutions for business is that the industry has focused more on consumers.

"The device manufacturers and wireless operators can't seem to decide whether they even care about the enterprise market," said Daniel Taylor, managing director of The Mobile Enterprise Alliance Inc., a Wakefield, Mass.-based global advocacy group that promotes the business benefits of workforce mobility. He said mobile vendors are drawn to video downloads and mobile gaming "like bugs to light."

This trend prompted Brad Boston, CIO of San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco Systems Inc., to fire a broadside at the mobile device industry at last month's 3GSM World Conference in Barcelona, Spain.Citing the industry's emphasis on consumers, Boston complained, "There's a lack of focus on what we need." In his speech, Boston said he was frustrated that Cisco had to gather software from various vendors to build a mobile solution. He said his peers tell him they have had the same experiences.

Prashanth Rai