Comments on: Enterprise Mobility Matters http://mcguireslaw.com/2009/11/10/enterprise-mobility-matters/ The value of any product or service increases with its mobility. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:08:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Peter Altschuler http://mcguireslaw.com/2009/11/10/enterprise-mobility-matters/#comment-2463 Peter Altschuler Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:44:45 +0000 http://mcguireslaw.com/?p=3541#comment-2463 In the course of the interview, you mention that "For a single IT department, supporting robust mobile applications across six platforms (or even three) can’t be sustainable." Yet the platforms can be irrelevant if the enterprise-to-mobile connection utilizes technology that is both OS-agnostic and, though it seems contradictory, OS-compliant. There's a company called Webalo that you might want to look at (http://www.webalo.com) because it manages to work on any mobile OS (though they don't support the iPhone at the moment) and automatically adapts enterprise tasks and content to each smartphone's UI. Their approach is very different than traditional app dev. In fact, it requires no SDK or coding. So, yes, wordprocessing and the creation of spreadsheets aren't ever likely to migrate from the enterprise to a smartphone, but connecting to those documents (and to just the information that each user needs, instead of to the entire spreadsheet or database, for instance) is already easy to do. In the course of the interview, you mention that “For a single IT department, supporting robust mobile applications across six platforms (or even three) can’t be sustainable.” Yet the platforms can be irrelevant if the enterprise-to-mobile connection utilizes technology that is both OS-agnostic and, though it seems contradictory, OS-compliant.

There’s a company called Webalo that you might want to look at (http://www.webalo.com) because it manages to work on any mobile OS (though they don’t support the iPhone at the moment) and automatically adapts enterprise tasks and content to each smartphone’s UI. Their approach is very different than traditional app dev. In fact, it requires no SDK or coding.

So, yes, wordprocessing and the creation of spreadsheets aren’t ever likely to migrate from the enterprise to a smartphone, but connecting to those documents (and to just the information that each user needs, instead of to the entire spreadsheet or database, for instance) is already easy to do.

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