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While many government agencies recognize that mobile applications that enable staff to work more flexibly and efficiently will be fundamental to public service delivery in the future, many have not yet adopted strategies that deliver the real, measurable benefits. Market fragmentation and an overly tactical approach to the implementation of mobile applications have undermined the ability of the public sector to realize more substantive value from the uptake of mobile technology. The Hytec solution tackle…
Technology Audits - published 25/02/2010 - Mark Blowers
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With its BlackBerry Solution Portfolio, Research In Motion (RIM) is one of the market leaders in the enterprise mobility sector. It provides a comprehensive enterprise-class offering for organisations, based on its own architecture and devices. Unsurprisingly, security remains an important issue for enterprises – especially in the extended environment – and this is a focus for the BlackBerry solution. Security is based on the Common Criteria (CC) multinational security certification programme, which cove…
Technology Audits - published 14/12/2009 - Mark Blowers
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IBM Mobility functionality is aimed at enabling the extension of enterprise applications and collaboration software to hand-held devices across disparate networks, end point platforms, and form factors in a way that reduces the costs of mobile enablement, while offering a consistent, high-availability experience to the end user. The Lotus Mobile Connect module provides the core services of VPN connectivity, seamless roaming across multiple carrier networks, and session continuity. The IBM WebSphere Porta…
Technology Audits - published 14/12/2009 - Mark Blowers
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Sybase Unwired Platform provides a strategic approach to mobility by addressing the numerous challenges found in the mobile environment, such as back-end integration, development and support of mobile applications on multiple device types, secure access, management of heterogeneous mobile devices, and data synchronisation. Instead of one-off siloed implementations of mobile applications, it enables organisations to standardise on a flexible mobile middleware platform that allows developers to deploy mult…
Technology Audits - published 01/12/2009 - Mark Blowers
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The major challenges that mobile services cause enterprises are in the areas of security, management, control, cost, and heterogeneity.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Mark Blowers
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Windows phones for Business, powered by Windows Mobile 6.5, works together with existing Microsoft infrastructure and development software to support access to e-mail, voicemail, documents, calendar, contacts, tasks, customer information, and enterprise applications from anywhere, and at anytime. From an enterprise perspective, maximising the benefits of mobility involves much more than just purchasing smart phones and mobile devices. An important differentiator for Microsoft is the way that Windows phon…
Technology Audits - published 12/10/2009 - Mark Blowers
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At a recent Vodafone UK enterprise briefing for industry analysts, the company outlined and demonstrated its Vodafone One service. The solution enables organisations to exploit existing infrastructure by deploying a Vodafone supplied IP-PBX on the customer’s premises, which is integrated with the Vodafone mobile network and the customer’s existing fixed network and desktop environment.
OpinionWire Articles - published 03/07/2009 - Mark Blowers
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Synchronica Mobile Gateway Enterprise Edition is a data synchronisation solution that enables the delivery of e-mail, calendar entries, notes, and contacts to inexpensive mobile devices, using industry-standard protocols, through both push and pull mechanisms, and without additional client software or changes to the firewall. Enterprises of different scales of operation need to provide e-mail access to different groups, such as sales personnel and field services personnel, where at least for some scenari…
Technology Audits - published 01/07/2009 - Mark Blowers, Somak Roy
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The use of mobile phones to access the Internet for content and to search for information and news is increasing. This is driving the market for better mobile search tools with improved accuracy and relevancy of results, and user interfaces that are created specifically for mobile devices with voice features. Progress is being made in these areas but for many there is ‘little joy of use’ and the mobile search experience is one that is best avoided.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 24/06/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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It’s difficult to write an opinion on the potential impact of swine flu without adding to the media feeding frenzy that is already in full swing; however, it would also be irresponsible to ignore the potential for a pandemic disease which could disrupt the business world. As an additive effect on top of financial instability, any spread of disease of pandemic proportions would have the potential to tip the business world from a nervous state to a hysterical one. To guard against this, executives with a b…
OpinionWire Articles - published 08/05/2009 - Rob Hailstone
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With the pressure on to reduce costs and maximise value it is expected that more interest will be shown in Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) technologies, which consist of barcodes, RFID, smartcards, and biometrics.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/04/2009 - Mark Blowers
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Synchronica, a developer of mobile e-mail and synchronisation solutions, recently announced new functionality within its Mobile Gateway 4.0 solution that pushes social networking and news updates to any mass-market mobile phone. A wide range of popular social networking sites such as Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, and Plaxo are supported, as well as other RSS news and financial feeds. Updates can be pushed as e-mails into a separate mailbox on any phone supporting the OMA EMN (Push IMAP) industry standard, o…
OpinionWire Articles - published 10/03/2009 - Mark Blowers
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Last week, Google launched its new service – Google Latitude. The Latitude software allows mobile phone users to share their location with designated contacts, which may be accessed either via another mobile phone or a PC. Google states that Latitude is intended to help friends and work colleagues find one another whilst on the move and to keep track of loved ones, allowing you to contact them by phone, text, or e-mail. The latter is particularly useful given the seemingly ubiquitous parental desire to k…
OpinionWire Articles - published 12/02/2009 - Stephen Mann
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Zetes, a provider of solutions for the automatic identification of goods and people, has signed a contract with Morrisons (the UK’s fourth-largest supermarket chain) to provide a voice-enabled picking solution. The solution is based on Zetes’ 3iV voice software and over 2000 Vocollect Talkman voice computers and, once live, will allow warehouse operators to pick stock using a voice interface instead of utilising a paper-based picking system.
OpinionWire Articles - published 05/02/2009 - Mark Blowers
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iPass, a provider of services for enterprise mobility management, recently made available the latest version of the iPass Mobile Broadband Index, which monitors the wireless access of the mobile workforce around the globe. The research identified that worldwide business use of iPass Wi-Fi hotspots has increased by 46% from the first half of 2007 to the first half of 2008. Other findings include the increasing growth of Wi-Fi usage in Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, with European business use of …
OpinionWire Articles - published 05/11/2008 - Mark Blowers
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Last month, comScore – a global Internet information provider – reported that 20.8 million US and 4.5 million UK mobile subscribers accessed mobile search in June 2008; increases of 68 and 30 percent respectively over June 2007.
OpinionWire Articles - published 03/11/2008 - Stephen Mann
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New research commissioned by Mobile Device Management (MDM) specialist Mformation has identified that the adoption of mobile services are being hampered by an inability to personalise mobile devices. 80% of respondents to the survey indicated that they would use mobile services more if greater personalisation were possible.
OpinionWire Articles - published 03/11/2008 - Mark Blowers
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All across Africa there is much talk about the “digital divide”. I needed to find a definitive description for this oft-quoted term, because so many ministers and others of importance have hijacked the concept to serve their own purposes.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/10/2008 - Terry White
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A recent survey by Point Topic (www.point-topic.com) reported that almost half of UK users are accessing the Internet away from home or work, with 47% of the 6,000+ surveyed users preferring to use mobile broadband networks, compared to 42% who still opt for Wi-Fi. This is radically different from 12 months ago, when 40% of users chose Wi-Fi hotspots as their connection method of choice and with only 30% choosing mobile broadband.
OpinionWire Articles - published 23/10/2008 - Stephen Mann
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The IBM mobility solutions are aimed at enabling the extension of enterprise applications and collaboration software to handheld devices, across disparate networks, endpoint platforms, and form factors, in a way that reduces the costs of mobile enablement, as well as offering a consistent and high availability experience to the end user. The Lotus Mobile Connect module provides the core services of VPN connectivity, seamless roaming across multiple carrier networks, and session continuity. The IBM WebSph…
Technology Audits - published 22/10/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Mark Blowers
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Near Field Communication (NFC), also referred to as ISO 18092, is an emerging radio frequency technology that enables the transmission of small amounts of data from devices or tags when they are brought in close proximity to each other. The potential for NFC-based connections and applications are endless.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 15/10/2008 - Mark Blowers
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Keynote Systems, an on-demand mobile and Internet testing solutions provider, recently announced the availability of the Keynote Mobile Interactive Testing Environment (MITE). MITE is a desktop testing tool that enables mobile developers to quickly understand the end- user experience, by interactively testing and validating mobile content over the Internet or through mobile operator networks, and across more than 1,000 different types of mobile devices.
OpinionWire Articles - published 03/10/2008 - Mark Blowers
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Cognito’s Mobile Workforce Management solution is an end-to-end managed service for organisations with a task-oriented mobile workforce. For the mobile worker, the benefits of real-time access to information include increased efficiency, improved effectiveness, and reduction in errors, whilst managers benefit from better visibility of workflow and the ability to completely audit all mobile activity. The solution enables organisations to improve the productivity of the remote workforce and the use of a ma…
Technology Audits - published 11/09/2008 - Mark Blowers
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