Barriers to implementing a mobile system include technology risks, lack of resources, and for many companies, cost. While most analysts agree that mobile/wireless “strategic benefits” are compelling, there are few who can realistically estimate total costs and paybacks in the mobile environment. It turns out that mobile projects typically have much faster payback than projects like GIS. This is due to several features unique to mobile systems.

This paper presents a simple to use cost/benefit methodology for analyzing the mobile systems environment and includes sample tables listing the complete range of project cost items and benefit items.

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