Hello from not so beautiful and not so sunny Orlando…the land of Mickey and Minnie Mouse and way too many other theme parks…and conventions. OK, enough with the crankiness. I’m here (for the second time this month) attending SAP’s big SAPPHIRENOW event…and when I mean big, I mean real big. I lost count at 10,000 [...] Enterprise Mobility Strategy
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The Costco Approach To Enterprise Mobility
Hello from not so beautiful and not so sunny Orlando…the land of Mickey and Minnie Mouse and way too many other theme parks…and conventions. OK, enough with the crankiness. I’m here (for the second time this month) attending SAP’s big SAPPHIRENOW event…and when I mean big, I mean real big. I lost count at 10,000 [...] Mobile Project Collaboration – The Third Wheel
Mobile Only: Week 10 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. Project collaboration is a pivotal exercise for enterprise computing. Organizations will often put a lot of initial [...] Apps vs Crapplications Part 2
Brian Madden recently wrote an excellent article on how to argue about html vs native apps as well as touch versus keyboard/mouse and made some great points. It is definitely worth a read. We do diverge a little bit in our thinking though when he gets to features vs focus in apps. He quotes me [...] Rudyard Kipling’s Take On Mobile Enterprise Apps
Another day, another airplane. Well, at least that’s how I feel today. Yesterday, I was in New Orleans at the App-Solutely Enterprise event and today I am on my way to Las Vegas for the Interop show. Don’t these trade groups know it’s not nice to make us have to pick one versus the other, [...] Can You Hear Me Now? – Collaborative Mobile Communication
Mobile Only: Week 9 If there is one aspect of collaboration that a mobile device should greatly excel at over a PC, it is communication. Mobile devices have two distinct advantages over desktop PCs. First, remote meetings can happen in diverse environments beyond my desk. I can be at home, in a conference room, or [...] Some Thoughts From BlackBerry World 2012
Hello from sunny Orlando. I’ve been here with several thousand of my closest friends attending the much anticipated BlackBerry World as many mobile eyes wanted to catch a glimpse of the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system. How was the show you might ask? What do I think of BB 10? What was the reaction of [...] BYOD Is No Bed of Roses
You know I gave up a long time ago trying to NOT talk about BYOD. It feels like it’s everywhere because it’s top of mind on almost every discussion I participate in these days. It may even reach the point that people will start talking about BYOD when they’re not even talking about enterprise mobility. [...] The Enterprise Mobility Policy Guidebook: April 2012 Edition
This is the latest edition of the mobility policy guidebook that includes additional recommendations based on the changing needs of the workplace, including tablets, app stores and individually liable devices. What’s new in this edition: The COPE Model (Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled) This is an alternative to BYOD Corporate Data Access GeoFencing 3rd Party Apps [...] Confusion Around Mobile Application Management Can Be a Good Thing
Do you remember the whole glass half-full/glass half-empty mindset? That’s what came to mind today when I saw an article talking about what Citrix might be thinking as it defines and refines its mobile application management strategy. I say this particularly in the context of new markets that are often ill-defined and even more frequently [...] If Mobile Device Management Doesn’t Matter, Then What Does?
Thanks to the powers of the Twitter-sphere, I stumbled upon this interesting article called “Why Mobile Device Management Doesn’t Matter.” It’s certainly a provocative title, albeit not a unique one, particularly from enterprise mobility vendors that are trying to provide technology solutions to help manage the ever-explosive growth of mobility in the workplace via non [...]