2013 Roundup of Smartphone and Tablet Forecasts & Market Estimates
For many companies, getting their mobility strategies off the ground and successful is the highest priority project they have in 2013. The urgency to get their sales and consulting teams equipped with smart phone and tablet-based applications is accelerating. Pilot projects have shown mobility applications can shorten sales cycles and serve as a better sales training and management platform. Serving [...]
Why CIOs Are Quickly Prioritizing Analytics, Cloud and Mobile
Customers are quickly reinventing how they choose to learn about new products, keep current on existing ones, and stay loyal to those brands they most value. The best-run companies are all over this, orchestrating their IT strategies to be as responsive as possible. The luxury of long technology evaluation cycles, introspective analysis of systems, and [...]
How Google is Driving Mobile Video Market Growth
Google’s top advertising customers are pushing for convergence of mobile and video quickly, which is turning into a strong catalyst of growth of the global mobile video market. With their largest advertising customers wanting greater flexibility in bringing video to mobile devices, Google will make significant strides this year to make that happen. During their latest earnings call, Google execs said that Android, [...]
The Windows 8/Metro Challenge: Good for the Enterprise, Not So Good for Apple and Google
Microsoft’s TechEd conference this week showcased more than just Windows 8 and its amazingly well-designed Metro touch-based user interface. It also heralded what may prove to be a tectonic shift in the strategic position of Microsoft in the enterprise. And with that shift may come an equal, and opposite, shift in the fortunes of Google [...]
SAP’s Sustainability announcements at Sapphire Now
SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe at Sapphire Now 2012 Technology innovation plays a major part in creating a sustainable world tomorrow So said SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe at this year’s SAP Sapphire Now conference in Orlando. He then went on to predict three major trends in computing for the coming years – according to [...]
SAP Teched Las Vegas and Beyond – SAP at the Crossroads
For those outside SAP, TechEd has always been a bit impenetrable. Being first and foremost a community event, SAP TechEd is the highlight of the SAP conference circuit for those whose idea of a racy night in Vegas is watching fellow coders face off for glory at Demo Jam, even as the contest itself is [...]
The Web is Back
This morning SlideShare launched a complete rewrite from Flash to HTML5, and a new mobile web app. You would think that as the world’s largest social content network, with 60M monthly unique visitors (you too can be unique) this would be a big deal. Here’s Liz Gannes from All Things Digital: SlideShare Does Biggest Redesign [...]
5 success tips from Workday for enterprise mobile apps
Any ISV wanting to extend enterprise apps to mobile platforms will benefit from these five tips I gleaned from a full-day tech briefing with Workday in San Francisco today.
Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility
How do the overarching digital strategies of today’s 21st century enterprise relate to social business and smart mobility? It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more frequently as these two major new trends become primary areas of focus in organizations around the world. The reality is today that large organizations continue to struggle with [...]
Breaking Under the Weight of Complexity
Does information technology need to be so complex? To answer the first question we must ask another: What drives complexity? Vendors tell you that they respond to customers, and it’s true that many customers demand that software meets their highly idiosyncratic requirements, that’s true, and requirements drive complexity. But is it also true that vendors for many [...]
