There is nothing quite like the buzz of an acquisition to get me energized about being in the mobile market. The first quarter of the year didn’t disappoint with several acquisitions of smaller players by big companies. Now, as we are only days into Q2, the pace is already quickening with yesterday’s news of SAP’s [...]

This week, the first ‘Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise’ conference (also known as CITE) was held in San Francisco. The event brought together hundreds of IT execs and companies who share an interest in exploring how consumer technology is relevant in the enterprise. The week was earth shattering in a few ways, not the least [...]

I recently had the pleasure of escaping the cold north and enjoying a week’s vacation on a Caribbean cruise. Perhaps it is telling that I specifically chose a cruise as a way to force myself to spend a little bit of time away from my mobile phone. When the kids learned that I wouldn’t have [...]

The Consumer Electronics Show was held in Las Vegas this week, bringing together over 100,000 techies to ogle over the latest innovations. The hilights of the show include cool new connected devices including Ultrabooks, connected vehicles, TVs you can control from your iPad and yet another new form factor from Samsung called the ‘Note’. While [...]

In my last blog I started a new series on setting the stage for a mobility center of excellence. Now we’ll talk a bit more about what a center of excellence is and some key dimensions of them. This information is based on a whitepaper written by SAP’s Vishy Gopalakrishnan. Vishy works with Global 1000 [...]

As mobility adoption across the enterprise continues at a rapid pace, IT organizations are trying to deal with many challenges that are unique to mobility. We are often asked to share recommendations on how companies can structure their business to support this environment. This is the next topic that we are exploring in the Mobile [...]

Yesterday was the SAP World Tour event in Toronto – and it was an awesome day. The excitement started early when I pulled into the parking lot of the Toronto Congress Centre to find a sea of cars and an entry way packed full of people. The buzz in the crowd was awesome. A highlight [...]

Analogies over the years (and centuries) talk about building your house on a strong foundation. In mobility, we’re not talking about driving up a ‘mobile home’, and camping for a few days. We’re talking about putting the right foundation in place to build a house that will last – a “sustainable, responsive and flexible” mobile [...]

Looking back over the past decade or more in the mobile world is something I always love to do. Mostly because it reminds me how far we’ve come. I was at the Mobility Bootcamp at CTIA recently, and I love the way Philippe Winthrop put it – “We are at the end of the beginning [...]

In my first post in this series on mobile enterprise applications ( Why Are So Many Companies Launching Mobile Applications? ) I talked about the why companies are considering deploying mobile apps. Assuming you think you want to move ahead with some kind of mobile app, we can now talk about ‘what happens next’? And while you’re [...]

Enterprise mobile apps is a topic that I am love to talk about – specifically because SAP has been launching our own expanding series of enterprise mobile apps to solve many key business needs. If you are thinking about apps (and who isn’t!) then I encourage you to read on – and also register now [...]