Enterprise Mobility Matters

My June 2009 Research on Enterprise Mobility

So here's the research I have published this past month with Strategy Analytics:

• Creating a Holistic Mobility Strategy – Revised Edition - I talked about this piece when it came out.  You can download this for free (and I encourage you to if you haven't) because I think it's important to get rid of some of the confusion out there around what MDM is.
• Profiling and Benchmarking The BlackBerry “Shop” - Should be pretty straight forward what this is. In fact, this is the "sister" document to the recent Windows Mobile "Shop" report I did.

Feel free to contact me if you would like to view these documents or talk about them.

Inside Looking Out: An Executive View on Enterprise Mobility with Josh Lipton

Welcome to the latest edition of Inside Looking Out.  This past week (on my vacation, no less!), I got to speak with Josh Lipton.  Josh is a VP of Consulting and the CTO at Advantix Solutions Group, a Texas based wireless mobility management solutions provider.

One of the things that impresses me with Advantix is how they combine so many various parts of EMM as part of an end to end solution to their clientele.

Looking Back to See the Future of Enterprise Mobility

Ah, what a week off can do for the mind and body.  While the beautiful Boston weather provided me an overwhelming amount of rain, I was able to get a couple of (very bad) rounds of golf in, as well as just catch up on a number of chores around the house.  That, combined with the fact that I did not have to get up at the crack of dawn every day, was a very welcome concept.  Now mind you, coming back to ~500 emails was less than pleasant, but it was certainly worth it.

So as I was getting my day going today, I stumbled upon this article on the BBC web site that struck a chord for me.

Metrics Shmetrics

Please don't confuse the lackluster posting frequency for another time when Philippe drops the ball on his beloved blog.  Au contraire mes amis (That's French for Oh conTRAYR my friends), I am on a quick little vacation that has afforded me the opportunity to recharge my depleted batteries - now if I only could figure out a way to recharge my depleted bank account....but I digress.

This quick little entry is to talk about the recent posts on Information Week regarding sales and app download volumed for the Palm Pre (with the obvious comparisons to the iPhone in its various incarnations).

While it's good to see, if you believe the unofficial stats, that Palm has sold about 150,000 devices since the Pre's launch and that about one million apps have been downloaded, I can't help but feel as if we must be cautious.  Let's just wait until we hear from Palm themselves I say.  I've been playing around with the unit they sent me and there's no question it's a great device.  I actually also really like how the device handles OTA firmware updates, and last but not least the App Store.

So bottom line, Palm is definitely back on the right track.  Let's wait for them to tell us just how far they've gotten a month post launch. (Hint hint Palm - might be a cool thing to do a press release on!)

Back to my vacation

Inside Looking Out: An Executive View on Enterprise Mobility with Todd Ostrander

Welcome to the latest edition of Inside Looking Out.  This past week, I got to speak with Todd Ostrander.  Todd is a co-founder and now VP at Perlego Systems, a Washington (State) based mobility management solution provider.

One of the thing that I think sets Perlego apart from the (relatively) crowded MDM space, is that they provide their MDM solution as a SaaS based subscription model.