Thought Leadership on Enterprise Mobility

Who was it that said that life is full of contradictions? Today’s topic is indeed one of those, at least at first glance. I’m a guy who doesn’t have a Facebook account. I do have a Twitter account, but I don’t use it. I’m on Linkedin because I thought it might be a good idea [...]

This Executive Insight covers five of the most important trends that The Enterprise Mobility Foundation believes will define mobility within the workplace in 2012.  Organizations are encouraged to consider these predictions – and their associated recommendations – in order to be prepared for the continued proliferation of mobility in the workplace. The five predictions include: [...]

‘Tis the season of wonder and wishing, after all, so here goes. At the top of my wish list for wireless has always been having not just one, but rather multiple electromagnetic spectra, kind of like having more channels, but in a very big way. Since we’re going to have to wait for the next [...]

RIM announced Tuesday that they will not be releasing PlayBook OS 2.0 until at least February 2012, when they will be “confident we have fully met the expectations of our developers, enterprise customers and end-users,” according to David Smith, SVP of BlackBerry PlayBook at RIM. And what will they do to fully meet these expectations? [...]

As the adoption of smartphones and tablets continues to grow in both the consumer and enterprise space, mobility is quickly transitioning to the second wave of mobility predicated on applications.  The consumerization of enterprise mobility – the notion of people bringing their own devices into the workplace, and hence following broader consumer trends – has [...]

I’ve had the privilege of Chairing the Wireless and Mobility Track at the Interop conferences for some time now. Interop Spring, held in Las Vegas, is the largest enterprise IT event in the world, and the New York event, Interop Fall, while smaller, is in no way less intense than its big brother. In planning [...]

You can find below the slides from the 2011 Enterprise Mobility Boot Camp that was held at the Fall  CTIA show in San Diego.  Slides from the Mobile Risk Management session are graciously provided by IntegriCell. These documents can only be used for personal education and may not be distributed by vendors/ISVs/consultants without express written [...]

RIM, the maker of the popular (well, historically, anyway; read on) BlackBerry line of products, and one of the firms that essentially defined mobility as we know it today, has been all over the financial news for months. The company’s stock has fallen dramatically (it was around 145 only a little more than a year [...]

How many mobile devices do you want to buy, carry, and manage? A handset is a given, but can a tablet really replace a notebook? Will the huge (and increasing) diversity of tablet devices and operating environments give new life to the notebook, or are we in the early stages of an epic transition that [...]

With the latest advances in virtual desktops, virtual meeting spaces (GoToMeeting, etc.), unified communications, and mobile technology, the death of the traditional office should be imminent. There are overwhelming benefits to having a remote, mobile workforce, and companies are slowly shifting to this way of doing business. The simplest benefit for telecommuting (i.e. traditionally office-based [...]