Hello from uber hot San Jose, California. I’ve been here for a couple of days now attending an enterprise mobility conference, as well as visiting some of my friends and colleagues who provide enterprise mobility solutions. At the conference, I did a presentation on the need for better mobility management solutions because there are now [...] Welcome to The Enterprise Mobility Forum
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The Enterprise Mobility Market Share Myth: Part II
Hello from uber hot San Jose, California. I’ve been here for a couple of days now attending an enterprise mobility conference, as well as visiting some of my friends and colleagues who provide enterprise mobility solutions. At the conference, I did a presentation on the need for better mobility management solutions because there are now [...] The Role of Management Tools in a Mobile Application Strategy
Hello from the Fairmont Hotel in Boston, where SAP has been holding this morning a “press and industry influencer” event to officially share the mobile strategy that comes from its recent acquisition of Sybase. It’s been an interesting event so far, as it is being simulcast in Frankfurt so that we have (among others) John [...] Mobile Enterprise Apps: Are We There Yet?
More Thoughts on BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7
The Cloud is The Mobile Device: Mobile Platforms Won’t Matter
More thoughts today about mobile platforms. I found an interesting article yesterday called “Are there too many mobile platforms?” (You just have to love Twitter) It’s an interesting question. I remember asking myself the same questionwhen Samsung’s Bada platform was announced. In fact, I’ve asked myself a similar question on more than one occasion….even as [...] The Enterprise Mobility Market Share Myth
It seems like all the buzz these days somehow relates to Research in Motion and the BlackBerry platform. Last week alone, we saw RIM announce the new Torch, most notable for its use of the new BlackBerry 6 OS platform and the fact that this is the first BlackBerry device that comes with a native [...] Mobility’s New Hybrid: Motorola’s ES400 Crosses a Smartphone With a Rugged Handheld
In July, I interviewed Motorola’s VP and GM of mobile devices, Girish Rishi, for my video blog. Girish discussed a new type of device that Motorola announced which is due to ship this fall called the ES400. It’s not a smartphone, nor is it the brick that was the ruggedized phones of the past. Motorola [...] Taking a S.O.F.T. Approach Towards Enterprise Mobility Deployments
The impact of mobility as a transformative technology is unlike most other waves given how it has as much if not more of an impact on the workforce than the workplace. Given this uniqueness, traditional approaches to assessing the merits and value of deploying and managing mobility solutions can often create “analysis paralysis.” This document [...] The Enterprise Mobility Barometer Part I: The (Mostly) BlackBerry Environment
Best Practices For Managing Individually Liable Devices
The ever increasing adoption of smartphones, combined with the economic downturn that organizations have been facing for the last two years has created the consumerization of enterprise mobility.
While there are many advantages that come from this deeper adoption of mobile devices, organizations are also taking an increasingly “laissez-faire” approach to both cost and security management of those devices.
If [...] Android Device Adoption In The Enterprise: The Employee Perspective
The iPhone is not the only consumer-centric smartphone that is making its way into the workplace.
This Executive Insight profiles individuals’ rationale behind their purchase of a Google Android-based devices as well as their expectations around how their employer would support them and their device in order to help IT managers be better prepared for the [...] Want To Maximize The Value of Your iPhone Deployments? Then Manage Them
This Executive Insight highlights the need for organizations to have greater visibility on the devices their employees are using (such as the iPhone), regardless of whether the device is owned by the individual or the corporation, and demonstrates how regardless of ownership, that managing devices is beneficial to both parties.
The data used in this document [...] Driving Strategic Value With Enterprise Mobility
This Executive Insight examines the importance of having formalized policies for enterprise mobility projects and the impact they can have on an organization’s top and bottom lines.
Research from The Enterprise Mobility Foundation shows a measurable and significant improvement in the benefits mobility solutions can provide to an organization through the deployment of formal policies and [...] The Enterprise Mobility Policy Guidebook: Business Policy Edition
Research shows that over 90% of organizations now have employees using smartphones within their work environments. Depending on the size of the organization, this can cover tens of thousands of individuals. However, enterprise mobility management can be a daunting task for organizations.
The first step in managing mobility is to have a mobility policy. Other research [...] Creating a Holistic Mobility Strategy – January 2010 Edition
The growth of mobility within the enterprise is a double-edged sword. On the one side, the accelerating adoption of mobility solutions and of options available in the marketplace shows how organizations are seeing both an increasing value in deploying mobility solutions and the strategic value they bring.
The other side of the coin is that organizations [...] Security Adoption for Enterprise Mobility is Still Lackluster
This Executive Insight looks at the adoption of mobile security solutions by end user organizations to better understand the current state of security in the context of enterprise mobility.
The challenge however in this market is that most organizations fail to consider any kind of security strategic…unless they suffer a breach where information or data has [...] Measuring the Value of Mobile Device Management
This Executive Insight examines the issues that IT professionals are facing from the continued proliferation and adoption of smartphones and how IT departments need to better manage those devices, as well as measuring the benefits that organizations have been able to reap from deploying mobile device management (MDM) solutions.
However, it is also important to note [...] This presentation was given at the Gartner Mobile & Wireless Summit in Chicago last year.
Ondeego has created AppCentral: the Enterprise App Store. This is Ondeego CEO Ken Singer’s presentation from the Silicon Valley Telecom Council meeting about mobile app stores and mobile app discovery.
New options for sustainable mobile computing in local government
A conversational follow up to Meet Charlie - What is Enterprise 2.0? This slide show is being used to engage commercial sales departments in dialogue around the use of Enterprise 2.0 tools and data
It is evident that the market for mobile enterprise solutions grows rapidley. A lot less obvious are the technological trends on which mobile enterprise solutions are going to be built upon. Mobile OSGi technology
ShrinkRay enterprise mobile channel solutions: - Customer acquisition & retention - Enterprise application conversion to device-integrated first class mobile solutions - Fully customised and/or configuration-only, no-programming solutions
A presntation to Vodafone - T-Enterprise develops games for Mobile Phones using Flash Lite platforms.
The presentation focuses on helping enterprises to adopt an effective mobility strategy with help of Smartphones
MVC(Model View Controller) How it Can Ease development accross platforms.
Mobility is an integral and growing part of the majority of businesses






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