Enterprise Mobility
Envisioning Mobility
Many businesses and organizations across a broad variety of industries have discovered that work place mobility is both a planned and unplanned reality.
In recent years, the proliferation of web-enabled smartphones and low-cost business applications accessible through apps stores has lowered the decision threshold for bringing new mobile applications into an organization. The result is workgroups [...]
Afaria for iPad is here
After much anticipation, Apple recently released iOS 4.2, the latest operating system update for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. So, what’s the big deal about this release?
Any iPad user who already has an iPhone 4 has been eagerly awaiting this update. It brings loads of new features to the iPad that already hit the [...]
Deploying Mobility: Not a time to be shy
The topics we’ve covered in the earlier posts have hopefully left you giving careful thought to the potential advantages of mobilizing your business. However, once you’ve considered where true mobility can take your business, the next step is to actually get started. Starting with a high-value, immediate impact implementation enables you to work out technical, [...]
Mobilization and the Policy Wonks
This is the third of four postings on mobilizing your enterprise. In the prior two posts we discussed a selection framework for mobility (where do you start and why?) and the initial requirements for getting started (who do you start with and why?). In this post we roll forward to the third step, which [...]
Getting ahead of the curve
This is the fourth of four postings on considerations that need to be factored in getting started with the mobilization of the enterprise. In the first post we dealt with envisioning mobility, in the second post I covered where to start, in the third post we went through a policy framework, and in this final [...]
3 Transformative Business New Year’s Resolutions
It is a new year and a new beginning for us all. Many of us use the start of a New Year as an opportunity to make New Year’s resolutions for ourselves. Resolutions that we often set as individuals include self betterment, losing weight, controlling finances, and so on. For many businesses January is the [...]
Defend Smartphones and Tablets in Your Organization
During Sunday night’s Super Bowl XLV game I recalled the famous saying, “The best offense is a good defense”. This quote is listed in the Mieder Dictionary of American Proverbs however there are other thought leaders, including Machiavelli and Sun Tzu, who have made similar declarations. The multiple assertions of this concept validates that this [...]
Big news for Android at Mobile World Congress
Today was a big day for the mobile industry with some exciting announcements at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The setting couldn’t be better – a beautiful sunny day in the incredible city of Barcelona. The conference hall, set among incredible history and stunning architecture, was full of construction workers building booths and [...]
Read the EMG on Your iPad
The 2011 Enterprise Mobility Guide (EMG) that was published by Sybase, an SAP Company earily this year is now available to view on your iOS device in iBooks format!
This thought leadership 130 page book contains the Latest Tips, Trends and Success in Mobile Device and Application Management and Mobile Enterprise Application Development from experts in [...]
Why Mobilize?
One of the issues that came up after the acquisition of Sybase by SAP focused on our overall approach to mobility. We (Sybase) were approaching the market under the assumption that a mobilized enterprise was a given—that is, everyone understood the imperative, and it was really just a matter of execution. We were quickly [...]