Data On The Run

Aerospace giant Boeing, one of the biggest users of Blackberry mobile email devices worldwide, conducted and audit to find out what return it was getting on its investment. “It determined that Boeing paid for every single mobile device, and everything connected to it, within 24 hours,” project manager William McDermott says. “That was a time when the (internal charge-back) rate was about $US189 a month per person. Today it’s about $US19 per month.

When Boeing experimented with Blackberry devices in 2001, it was presumed that only top-level executives would receive them. “Initial thinking was that it would never exceed 400 users,” he says.

Today, 10,000 Boeing employees carry Blackberry devices, with a projected increase to 16,000 within three years. The vast majority have substituted their laptops for the lightweight hand-held devices.

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