The Weekly Round-Up – Enterprise Tablet Style

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Weekly Round-up





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Tablets in the Enterprise: Risks and Rewards
Originally Posted By Shane O’Neill
At the Enterprise MobileNext Forum this week in San Francisco, one of the more discussed subjects was the benefits and challenges of adopting iPads and other tablets and mobile devices in the enterprise.
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Cisco Grows its Cius Tablet Brand
Originally Posted By Jeff Wiener
What’s happened to the enterprise tablet market? The question came out of a conversation I had with a customer last week who was exploring the full gamut of telecommunications solutions on the market. I smiled because while the enterprise tablet market is alive and well, it seems like almost no one knows about it.
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Microsoft’s Shrinking Window For Tablets: Its Fifth-Mover Product Strategy Is Late
Originally Posted By JP Gownder
Forrester is bullish on Windows 8 as a product for consumers. With Windows 8, Microsoft is adapting Windows in key ways that make it better suited to compete in the post-PC era, including a touch-first UI, an app marketplace, and the ability to run natively on SoC/ARM processors.
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The Rush to Connect: Are We in a Tablet Bubble?

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Connectivity, Tablet Adoption





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I came across this presentation, from Karan Bhujbal in India, that has some interesting statistics about how, where, and to what extent people are connecting with tablets.

My favorite slide is number 26, at the end, which plots tablets on the Gartner Hype Cycle. Developed by the analyst firm, the Gartner Hype Cycle is “a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities.” Read more

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Enterprise Mobility: The Dream Is Finally A Reality
If you'd like some help understanding how your organization can take advantage of business-focused mobility technology from a broad industry perspective, read our quick eBrief.  Find out how the problems associated with mobility — access, connection quality, and security — have essentially been solved through new application development, embedded broadband, and cloud computing.

How Secure Is Your Connection? Top Tips for Tighter Security on the Road.

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Connectivity, Security





 

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If you’re always on the move, chances are you’ve had occasion to jump onto a Wi-Fi network at an airport, café, health club, hotel, or other venue. While this can make getting work done more convenient, Wi-Fi networks can put any data you transmit or receive online at risk. Even if your tablet is encrypted, your data is vulnerable as soon as you connect to the Internet through a Wi-Fi network.

The best solution is to make sure all your Internet connections go through a virtual private network (VPN). Android tablets offer built-in VPN support in your network settings, so you can enter your VPN address once and never worry about it again. Read more

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Finding the Right Tablet: A Purchase Checklist
Use this quick reference guide to help find the perfect tablet that balances the features your end users need and want with the controls you need to meet your business objectives.

Gartner’s Top 10 Business Apps for Tablets

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Apps, Blog





Originally Post By Jennifer Lawinski

As Apple’s iPad and other tablets move from the consumer world into the corporate IT ecosystem, business applications are moving beyond simple personal productivity applications to include enterprise heavy-hitters such as CRM and ERP. Vendors are launching tablet applications to meet enterprise demand, following where users want to take the tablet platform, says Gartner vice president and analyst David Willis, and CIOs should be aware of the ways software is evolving to conform to the tablet platform.
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The Weekly Round-Up – Enterprise Tablet Style

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Apps, Blog, Security, Tablet Adoption, Weekly Round-up





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Secure Mobile Access for BYOD Smartphones and Tablets Now Available With Flowfinity Reverse Proxy
Originally Posted By The San Francisco Chronicle
Flowfinity Wireless Inc., a proven provider of enterprise mobile apps for business process automation, today announced the availability of the Flowfinity Reverse Proxy, a solution for delivering secure access to Flowfinity mobile apps deployed within corporate networks for users of popular smartphones and tablets.
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One in Three Online Consumers to Use a Tablet by 2014
Originally Posted By eMarketer
Tablet devices, in their current incarnation, have only been available for a couple years, but the iPad has propelled them to rapid increases in ownership and usage. eMarketer estimates that by the end of 2011, 33.7 million Americans will use a tablet device at least monthly—a rise of 158.6% over last year, the year the iPad was released.
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Black Friday – Tablet Doomsday For Many Phone Vendors
Originally Posted By Forbes.com
The Black Friday promotional support for tablets seems notably weak – Amazon’s price aggression may have been the final nail in the coffin of several major tablet projects. Old school phone vendors like Motorola, Samsung, HTC and RIM are staring at an early death of their tablet projects as Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble basically split the market.
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App Review: Citrix Receiver Enables Secure Enterprise Access

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Connectivity, Enterprise, Security





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If you’re working with a tablet device in an enterprise environment, you’d like to get access to your organization’s applications and data. But your IT department wants to make sure you keep that data safe and secure. The solution for many organizations is Citrix Receiver.

Introduced in January 2010, Citrix Receiver is an easy-to-install client software app that enables you to access enterprise data, applications and desktops from any computing device, including smartphones and tablets. It’s a simple way to virtualize your desktop and take it anywhere you go. Read more

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Quick Tips Guide to Enterprise Tablets
This "Quick Tips" guide lists critical purchasing considerations for business tablets. Discover how to reduce security risks, simplify set-up and configuration, and improve collaboration. By choosing an enterprise-ready tablet and weighing your options carefully, you can excite and engage employees, while giving your IT department the peace of mind they need.

6 Ways Tablets Provide Good Medicine for Health Care Providers

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Apps, Healthcare, Tablet Adoption, Utility





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Physicians and nurses spend their days communicating with patients, taking notes and managing information. With their lightweight and small size, long battery life, and easy-to-use touch screens and stylus pens, tablets–like the Thinkpad X Series convertible tablet and ThinkPad Tablet–are a natural fit for the health care environment.  Instead of using clipboards and paper files, or a cumbersome laptop, clinicians can use tablets to track patient information, conduct research and stay connected with a patient’s entire care team—resulting in better quality of care.

Here are just six unique ways tablets and mobile apps are helping the medical community do a better job at work. (Thanks to a recent article in US News: “Hospital Care: How Smart Phones and Tablets Are Helping Patients” for some of these stories.) Read more

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Can the Tablet Optimize Your Mobile Workforce?
Gartner predicts that 80% of businesses will support a tablet-toting workforce by 2013. Are you ready? Get a better grasp of how your IT organization can empower knowledge workers, increase the efficiency of remote customer service teams, and enable field sales professionals to deepen customer relationships in this practical guide to tablets in the workplace.
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