Enterprise Mobility Matters

IBM Invests in Enterprise Mobility

During a celebration of the 10th anniversary of its offices in India, IBM announced yesterday it was investing resources in mobility.

The new IBM Research program will entail a number of efforts to bring simple, easy-to-use services to the millions of people in the world who have bypassed using the personal computer as their primary method of accessing technology, and are instead using their mobile phone to access the web, conduct financial transactions, entertain themselves, shop and more.

Great and welcome to the party.  This is such a typical IBM initiative.  At face value it sounds great, but when you start peeling back the onion....

Does Dvorak Get Enterprise Mobility?

While I write and speak only about wireless and mobility as it pertains to the benefits these technologies can deliver to the enterprise, I must admit to being a geek who enjoys reading up on a wide array of technologies.  As such, I read many of the popular tech sites and regular follow the articles of the key columnists.  John C. Dvorak over at PC Magazine is one of my favorite columnists...he usually has some pretty insightful things to share, with the occasional sprinkle of a comment to stir the pot.  Well, he certainly succeeded at stirring the pot with me on this recent article "The iPhone Is No Desktop."

Good Times in Enterprise Mobility

I just stumbled across an interesting article over at PC World talking about Motorola's forthcoming enterprise mobility plans. I actually had the pleasure of meeting Motorola's Brian Havener at CTIA who shared the information you can read in the article, as well as other forthcoming plans that I can't share because of all those crazy NDA rules. Regardless, the information that has been disclosed addresses some of the two biggest issues that have been on my mind for a long time for both Good and Symbol. 1) How does Good (and others for that matter) compete with Microsoft when Redmond provides push email solutions for free and 2) How does Motorola's enterprise division find a way out of the consumer division's grey cloud?

I survived CTIA

When I started my research career at IDC some 10 years ago now, I had the (mis)fortune of traveling extensively both throughout Western Europe and the US. The worst part of the entire experience was the perpetual catch up I had to do from being out of the office for a week at a time. The same concept applied to me this past week, when I attended CTIA in Las Vegas and then came back on the red-eye to participate in a company off site. What I can tell you was that CTIA was an absolute madhouse combining both consumer and enterprise mobility in one show for me and 40,000 of my closest friends. While I usually follow the adage, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” I figured I’d break (OK, bend) the rule this one time.

FMC: The Next “Killer App” For Mobility?

This is a copy of an article that was recently published in Mobile Enteprise Magazine.  Hope you enjoy it...

While wireless and mobile solutions have been around for decades, the accelerated adoption of these solutions only began in the enterprise when RIM and others pioneered the concept of pushing email to mobile devices.