Enterprise Mobility Matters

Webinar on Enterprise Mobility Management - TODAY!

Just as a reminder, I will be doing a webinar today on enterprise mobility management with my friends at Visage Mobile and ITO America.

If you would like to register, click here.

Why I Need Enterprise Mobility Management - Part II

It's 9:30 PM EST right now, which means my body thinks it's 3:30 AM CET.  I just got back from a company meeting in Barcelona which was a lot of fun.  While I got to spend some incredibly valuable time with my colleagues from all across the world, I unfortunately didn't have the time to finish my story regarding my experience that has convinced me of the incredible value and need for enterprise mobility management.  Given that my body thinks it's 3:30 AM, let's see how quickly I can put a few thoughts together...

Why I Need Enterprise Mobility Management

So I am getting ready to run off to Barcelona for a meeting, but wanted to put a very quick post here regarding a real world story of the importance of enterprise mobility management.  It's funny how as an analyst I get to talk about some really cool subjects, as well as hear some amazing stories from both vendors and CTOs and CIOs, but for some reason it doesn't resonate fully until you have to experience it yourself.  I am super late for my flight right now, but I will try to write something this weekend to let you know why I am now CONVINCED that every organization out there needs to have some basic level of mobility management solution deployed.   The categories I selected for this post should give you a sense as to what the story might be about.

Hasta pronto!

Enterpise Mobility and The Obama Presidency

So regardless of your political views, regardless of whether you're a citizen of the United States or not, there is no question that today was an absolutely historic day - at a glocal (not a typo) level. At noon EST, Barack Hussein Obama, became the 44th President of the United States.  Random Trivia: He actually became President before he took the Oath of Office, because the Constitution says he became President at noon while the actual swearing-in happened a few minutes later.  What's fascinating to me however, is that the man who is now "the most powerful person in the free world" had to fight to keep his BlackBerry.

So What is Enterprise Mobility Management?

I have had the pleasure to speak to a lot of companies in the last few months that play in the market of mobility management.  Most of these companies have some pretty compelling solutions that handle either device management or application management or expense management, but none so far handle the entire gamut of mobility management.

Consolidation In The World of Enterprise Mobility - "Let The Madness Begin..."

So what you all might not know about me is that back in the day, I was a pretty big fan of heavy metal.  I'll even admit to the fact that I had a mullet. Hey, it was the 80s!  Thankfully, there are no pictures (that I am aware of) of me with said mullet.  At any rate, in 1989, there was this huge rock concert called the Moscow Music Peace Festival that included Ozzy Osbourne.  For a long time he started his shows off by saying "Let the madness...begin."  Check out this YouTube video (around 2:15) if you don't believe me.  So how the heck does this have ANYTHING to do with enterprise mobility????

Does a Smartphone Platform Need Its Own AppStore?

So ever since I started the whole Twitter thing, I have been bombarded with updates from people telling me what they are up to.  I guess in one respect that this is a good thing.  On the other hand, it can be a complete time suck...  Regardless, via Twitter, I came across a blog post that had me fascinated.  Is a smartphone only really a smartphone if the platform has an AppStore?

Mobile Cloud Computing - Do You Need An OS On Your Mobile Device?

Every so often I look back on my blog entries, as well as look at other news in the blogosphere of enterprise mobility and say to myself, now why didn't I think of "that?"  Let me tell you briefly about a post that I never wrote a few months back when I was started looking at Cloud Computing and its impact on enterprise mobility.

Upcoming Webinar on Enterprise Mobility Management

Just as a FYI, I will be doing a webinar on January 29 on enterprise mobility management with my friends at Visage Mobile and ITO America.

If you would like to register, click here.

Holy "Nova" Batman! Palm Introduces The Pre

Well, what can I say.  After much speculation, Palm finally announced their new Linux-based platform along with a new device called the Pre.  There have been a number of web sites that have already spoken about the initial positive reviews.  I'm not here to do that, but instead throw out some ideas regarding the potential impact on enterprise mobility.