The Weekly Round-Up – Enterprise Tablet Style

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Tablet Adoption, Weekly Round-up





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RIM Delays PlayBook OS Update
Originally Posted By Eric Zeman
Rather than release buggy, unfinished software for the PlayBook tablet, RIM will continue work on the next version of the operating system until it is truly ready for consumer and enterprise use, the firm said. It expects that PlayBook OS 2.0 won’t be ready until around February. The update had been scheduled originally for this fall.
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Schools Are Using Enterprise App Protector to Give E-Learning a Revolution
Originally Posted By Carrot App
Smart phones and tablets bring revolution into people’s life. This revolution now enters classrooms in schools. More and more schools replace their laptops with tablets, which are cheaper and easier to use, especially for young students. Facing the problem of how to prevent students from using the unwanted apps on the tablets, teachers are now seeking a solution.
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Tablets Readied For A Real Day’s Work
Originally Posted By Chris Murphy
On a recent visit to Waste Management, the trash hauling and recycling giant that’s No. 3 on the InformationWeek 500 list this year, I met a young IT pro whose assignment was to put Android tablets through their paces. On his desk were about a dozen Android-based tablets, some of them wrapped in basic rubber cases. Could these off-the-shelf $500 devices replace the costly, custom touch screens Waste Management drivers use in their trucks, for things like directions and pickup requirements? It’s experimenting to find out.
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Notes Mobile Turns Handwriting Digital

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Apps, Education, Utility





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One of the really cool ways you can transform the way you work is by replacing pen and paper with digital pens used on a tablet, along with handwriting recognition software. An application called MyScript Notes Mobile from Vision Objects enables you to use your tablet as a real notepad, creating and customizing text and drawings using a stylus or just your finger.  This is especially useful for those in education, both students and teachers.

You can also insert pictures or share information you’ve written with email or other social networking tools. Take a look at this YouTube video to see Notes Mobile in action:
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Can a Single Tablet Provide the Cure for Both Business & IT?
With their increase in popularity, IT organizations are under pressure from the business to come up with a strategy for making the most of tablets across the enterprise. This Executive Insights brief explains how organizations are addressing critical concerns about deploying tablets. Discover 7 important questions to ask yourself as you start to evaluate tablets for use in your work environment, such as security, IT control, application management, and connectivity.

Mobile Collaboration Trends: How Tablets Help You Connect

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Mobility Strategy, Utility





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Employees who use tablets and other mobile devices to improve their productivity often find that traditional client/server applications with on-premise servers are inadequate to meet their needs. This explains the rapid growth of native apps linked to cloud-based services, or what Forrester calls the “mobile app Internet.”

In “The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Collaboration, Q3 2011,” customer experience analyst Ted Schadler explains that “the explosion of app innovation that started on the iPhone and then spread to Android devices and tablets will continue to drive tech industry innovation and have far-reaching pricing and go-to-market implications for software and services providers.” 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.

QuickOffice for Tablets to Be Updated with Better Cloud Integration (Video)

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Apps, Blog





Originally Posted By Chuong Nguyen

At CTIA a few weeks ago in San Diego, Ca., QuickOffice discussed that its latest update, version 5.0, is forthcoming and the developers of the office productivity suite, now available for both Android and iPad tablets, will come with better cloud integration, a more tablet-optimized user experience.
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The Weekly Round-Up – Enterprise Tablet Style

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Weekly Round-up





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How Tablets Could Reshape the Insurance Enterprise
Originally Posted By Raj Dhinsa

Notebook PCs, smartphones and now tablets. There is no shortage to the onslaught of cool new consumer electronic devices. Most of these devices have seen strong market successes largely due to ever-increasing utility and affordability. But tablets are different — tablets have reached an extra-high level.
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Analyst Report Provides Insights on Tablet Adoption by US Enterprises

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Tablet Adoption





Supported by laptops, tablets and smartphones, half of all information workers in the U.S. are mobile, splitting their time between the office and home or other external locations. Not surprisingly, the higher up the ladder, the less time the employee spends in the office. Just 35% of managers and supervisors and 10% of executives remain tied to a regular office setting.

These are just a few of the recent findings from Forrester Research in its report “The State of Workforce Technology Adoption: US Benchmark 2011.” The results come from an online survey of 4,985 US information workers at organizations with more than 20 employees.
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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.

3 Ways Tablets Are Transforming Pharma Sales

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Mobility Strategy, Tablet Adoption, Utility





Pharmaceutical manufacturing has been one of the top industries to embrace the tablet. According to Bill Drummy, Founder and CEO of Heartbeat Ideas, “already half of the top 20 pharma companies have bought into the tablet platform.

utility adoption mobility strategy 2 blog And the mandate is coming all the way from the top: In a memo to employees, Novartis CEO Joe Jimenez said, ‘It’s clear that we need to move quickly to incorporate this kind of cutting-edge technology into the way we work.’”

 

Field sales in general provides a great use case for tablets, but the mobile devices bring distinct advantages to pharma sales reps, who have limited time with physicians and need to carry a massive amount of product information with them. Instead of pulling out heavy catalogs, reps can instantly show off updated data using high-definition graphics. But it’s up to each rep, and the corporate higher-ups at the big drug companies, to leverage the technology in meaningful ways if they really want to have an impact on performance—and the bottom line.

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Field Studies: How Tablets Are Transforming Sales & Service Organizations
Could tablets really help your organization improve productivity? This brief discusses real-world examples of how organizations are deploying these mobile devices outside the four walls of the office. Learn how tablets can help your customer service and field sales teams in particular interact more effectively with clients, close deals faster, and reduce administrative work.
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