Enterprise Mobility News & Articles

“And the best part of my new corporate job is that I get a free iPad (or similar mobile device)!”

Like many of you, I’ve heard versions of this statement on an accelerating basis of-late. It begs the question: why are enterprises handing out mobile devices on such a regular basis to new, and oftentimes nearly all, of their employees?

Apple is including an “app lock” feature in the new iOS 6 platform that will lock the device, allowing only one application to run. In a blog post, Apple partner Zenprise explains that app lock (also known by the less restrictive-sounding name “Guided Access”) is designed to allow users to provide their workforces with “purpose-built iOS devices.”

Let’s face it, mobility should absolutely be on your radar if you’re an IT executive or decision maker. Whether your firm has a substantial investment in mobile devices for the workforce or you’ve adopted modern BYOD policies, you cannot ignore the impact of mobile devices on how we do business. Microsoft knows this, and has been hard at work to upgrade SharePoint’s plumbing in relation to the mobile experience.

Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, one of the best-known social conduits for professional networking. He also happens to be partner at the venture capital uber firm, Greylock Partners, and sits on countless boards for popular Internet companies. When he talks, people tend to listen, and Hoffman is saying enterprise is the next big thing, but it will take consumer technology to get it to the top.

Syncplicity wants to be the place that enterprise users go to sync, share, access and protect their files. The SaaS start-up that storage giant EMC acquired in May has been working in overdrive to achieve its mission.

Content Management from its earliest days has been about getting the right information to the right person at the right time. This was long before there were laptops, before email, before the web, before smartphones, before e-Readers, before tablet computers, before whatever comes next. 

It goes without saying that improved enterprise mobility is a good thing for business. Right? Putting enterprise applications into the hands of employees makes companies more productive, more efficient and they get the most out of their staff.

There is much talk of consumerization in the enterprise software market. Workers are increasingly bringing their own mobile devices to work, and enterprises are granting access to a multitude of mobile and desktop-bound devices. File sharing and collaboration can be done from literally anywhere. A study by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) looked into the habits of enterprise users and offers a few words of advice to IT managers and CIOs.

Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) setups are popular in the workplace today, and it can be a headache for IT departments to manage access, data and applications across a variety of platforms. With this in mind, Citrix has highlighted mobile-enabling technologies in its latest release of CloudGateway 2 and Citrix Receiver client.

The term "cellular" may have gone out of fashion with the prevalence of smartphones, tablets, and various mobile data technologies. However, Apple is taking one step back in terms of branding and marketing, due to complaints over its "4G" moniker on its new iPad.

Customer experiences are not limited to a website or social media or email. Every customer touch point matters and provides an opportunity to meet and exceed customer expectations. You could say that for most online touch points -- customers are using smartphones or tablet devices more, making it all the more important that whatever format you use to connect with your community is mobile-friendly.

What a busy week for business solutions provider SAP, which announced the acquisition of enterprise mobile application provider Syclo, partnerships with Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha, and revealed plans for its real-time data platform, SAP HANA.

Nokia may have initially been shrugged off as a has-been in the smartphone business, due to the demise of its former flagship Symbian operating system in deference to Android and iOS. But, with its partnership with Microsoft, Nokia might soon be on its way to be a formidable smartphone brand again, particularly after launching its Windows Phone 7-powered Lumia smartphones. With plans to launch Windows 8 tablets on the horizon, will Nokia likewise be a challenge to the iPad's dominance?

The rapid shift in platform dominance among smartphone sales in the consumer market over the past 3 years, as clearly seen in NPD’s report on US Smartphone sales 6 days ago, shows how quickly RIM’s decline has occurred.

If there’s anything that the last year taught us, it’s that managing application management (MAM) has become a reality for a majority of IT departments. Whether it’s to support an increasingly BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) environment, or in an effort to remotely deploy, manage, update and wipe applications from company devices over-the-air, MAM is becoming essential to enterprise mobility.