Will Tablets Really Replace PCs in the Enterprise?

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Consumerization, Tablet Adoption





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If you had a crystal ball and could look five years down the road, experts agree that you’d see an increased use of tablets in the enterprise. (Well, sure, you could also make a bit of money betting on the next five Super Bowl games, too.)  But these same experts have different opinions about what that means for laptops, workstations, and other PCs.

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Top Tablet: A Buyer’s Guide to the Best Device for Your Enterprise
This buyer's guide is designed to help decision-makers understand the features and functions that a new breed of business-oriented tablets is bringing to the mobile workforce. Use this guide to determine what features are most important for your organization, so you can balance end-user needs with IT requirements for successful mobility deployment.

The 1.5lb Gorilla in the Room: How Corning Gorilla Glass Adds Toughness to Tablets

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Utility





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If you accidentally drop your tablet, or if it regularly gets banged around in car trunks and overhead compartments, you’ll be a lot happier if your screen is covered with Corning Gorilla Glass. The chemically strengthened screen cover can handle higher impacts than regular glass, and does a great job at resisting chips, scratches, and cracks.

It also provides outstanding optical clarity, can be recycled, complies with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS), and won’t mess with the sensitivity of your capacitative touch screen, so you can accurately use your finger or a stylus to operate your tablet.

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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.

Tablets and the Enterprise: A Look at How Businesses Embrace Small Screen Devices

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Enterprise, IT, Mobility Strategy, Security, Tablet Adoption





Business Embraces Tablets—With Caution
Originally posted by Nicholas Kolakowski

The enterprise and small businesses are increasingly interested in supplying or supporting tablets for their employees. But CIOs and IT administrators are concerned about issues ranging from legacy apps to security.

When it comes to tablets such as the Apple iPad, consumers want the ability to read their email, cruise the Web, download some apps and play games—or rather, one specific game that involves hurling some irate birds at nonplussed pigs.

However, IT pros, whether they are working for a large enterprise or a small business, are looking at the tablet arena from a different direction: They want tablets that will play nice with their legacy infrastructure and applications, offer high security, and let users segregate any personal software and services (i.e., those angry birds) from their professional ones.

IT administrators working in specific fields, notably health care and construction, also want tablets that have long battery lives and are rugged enough to withstand bumps and falls.
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The Weekly Round-Up – Enterprise Tablet Style

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Android, Enterprise, Mobility Strategy, Weekly Round-up





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Enterprises Usher in Mobile Cloud Computing
Originally posted by Bill Claybrook
Mobile devices and mobile applications are changing the way IT organizations buy and use technology. Enterprise employees, not IT, are driving this trend. Even though cloud computing may facilitate end-user access to mobile apps, IT managers and developers must address a few nagging issues with mobile cloud computing.
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Can RIM’s PlayBook survive the Fire?
Originally posted by Brian Kemp
Amazon’s new Fire tablet announcement leaves some wondering what will happen to RIM’s PlayBook.
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Work Anywhere: Documents To Go for Tablets

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Android, Apps, Blog, Enterprise, Tablet Adoption





adoption enterprise blog apps android 2 Working on the run can present a host of challenges – especially when it comes to creating and editing documents. Microsoft Office® and Adobe offer the most widely used business software in the world, but their documents haven’t always been accessible – or editable – on mobile devices.  Thus it’s no surprise that Documents To Go (DTG) from DataViz has become consistently the top-selling productivity and business app in the tablet market.

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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.

Using Tablets to Replace Printed Manuals

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Blog, Enterprise





The auto industry is finding new and interesting ways to use tablet devices, and it seems the possibilities can be as endless as your own organization’s creativity. Here’s just one example of an innovative use case.

For years, the automotive brand Hyundai has been known for offering affordable entry-level cars, but recently, the brand is attempting to change that perception. In 2007, Hyundai introduced the Genesis as a concept car, which has been modeled to compete with BMW, Mercedes and other known luxury brands. In 2011, the Korean automotive company is aiming to give these luxury brands a run for their money with the introduction of the Equus – and the innovation doesn’t stop under the hood.

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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.

The Weekly Round-Up – Enterprise Tablet Style

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Lane Jesseph Posted in Android, Blog, Consumerization, Enterprise, Mobility Strategy, Weekly Round-up





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Windows 8 Tablet: Too Little, Too Late?
Originally posted by Paul McDougall
Even though Microsoft has yet to produce a media tablet that can compete with the iPad or Android-powered devices, the company’s efforts around such a device got some much needed attention last week when it previewed Windows 8, which is geared toward tablets and PCs.
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RIM’s Enterprise Standing Slips, Says Forrester
Originally posted by Larry Dignan
The turnabout in the enterprise highlights how RIM’s core foundation has been rattled by consumerization.
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ThinkPad Tablet: Ready For The Boardroom (Review)
Originally posted by James Kendrick
The ThinkPad Tablet by Lenovo is a Honeycomb slate that has typical ThinkPad engineering and quality of construction. It is as comfortable in the boardroom as it is the living room.
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