Is India Ready To Become A Mobile Enterprise [Infographic]
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Is India Ready To Become A Mobile Enterprise [Infographic]
Despite one of the fastest growing wireless markets, India is still in a stage where it's set to grow rapidly within the next five years when it comes to the adoption of mobile enterprise solutions. By taking the necessary steps towards becoming a mobile enterprise, businesses can improve productivity, increase revenue and gain market share.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Enterprise IT sees phones, Facebook and tablets! Oh my!
Enterprise employees have shifted from the gray and controlled world of corporate IT to the colorful Oz of consumer technologies, but according to data from an IDC/Unisys survey IT is in need of some kind of wizard to sort things out. According to dual surveys of 560 IT managers and another interviewing 2,660 employees and executives at large companies, IT underestimates the number of employees using laptops, mobiles and tablets as well as is unable to support those consumer devices.
Enterprise IT sees phones, Facebook and tablets! Oh my!
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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Mobile virtualization finds its home in the enterprise
Mobile virtualization finds its home in the enterprise — Tech News and Analysis
Mobile virtualization finds its home in the enterprise
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Monday, May 2, 2011
RIM Gives In To iPhone And Android In The Enterprise
Research In Motion seems to be admitting that corporate IT departments won't help it beat back the iPhone and Android.
This morning at BlackBerry World, RIM said it will release a cross-platform version of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). It's acquiring a company called Ubitexx to provide the technology.
This is a profound shift, and could even prepare RIM for an eventual exit from the smartphone market if sales continue to plunge.
RIM's business has always been driven by IT departments. BES gives companies an easy way to do things like activate devices, manage passwords, push out software updates, and wipe lost or stolen devices clean.
But BES only worked with BlackBerrys.
Now it will provide all these features for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone and Nokia devices as well.
RIM is still reserving plenty of features for the BlackBerry only, including push e-mail and behind-the-firewall access to enterprise apps. Its position is simply that end-users are bringing competing devices itnto the enterprise anyway, so RIM might as well help IT departments manage them with the back-end software they already use to manage BlackBerry devices.
But it's also a smart hedge.
If predictions from IDC and others are correct, RIM's market share will continue its slow decline, coming in below 15% by 2015. If RIM continued to tie BES to the BlackBerry device, BES would become less and less interesting to corporate IT.
By opening up, at least RIM can continue to address 100% of the fast-growing smartphone market -- even if it's not with the product RIM would prefer to sell.
In time, RIM might find that managing phones is a better business than making them.
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RIM Gives In To iPhone And Android In The Enterprise
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
For Skype, It's All About Enterprise And Mobile
This morning, there's a good rundown of Skype's efforts to boost its business in the Times. They interview the company's new CEO Tony Bates, who joined from Cisco's enterprise group.
The company is dominant with consumers, but very few of them pay for calls and since Skype's rates are very low and it buys minutes from carriers, its margins are very low as well. If it wants to make a good return for its investors who spun it off eBay at a $2.5 billion valuation, it needs new revenue lines. That mostly means getting Skype on more mobile phones, and getting business users to pay for an enterprise version of Skype.
As the story says, carriers have a "love-hate relationship" with Skype, although they point to a good relationship with Verizon, so maybe there's some room for progress there.
The more interesting part is the enterprise. Many techies believe in a trend towards the "consumerization of enterprise", meaning not only that enterprise software is beginning to look more like consumer software, but also that it's going to be sold more like consumer software, with bottom-up adoption by employees instead of having to go through zillions of hoops and gatekeepers.
Skype is going to be a real test case of the reality of this trend. Plenty of business users already use Skype on their own, and Cisco, which is a rival and one of the best enterprise-sales companies out there, has a competing product.
It'll be one to watch.
Now Read: Google Declares War On Skype, Lets You Make Calls From Gmail
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For Skype, It's All About Enterprise And Mobile
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Apple Makes Another Play For The Enterprise: Old Navy Testing iPod-Based Point-Of-Sale System (AAPL, GPS)
Apple is making a huge play at the enterprise market via iOS: Not just the typical corporate market you think of, like getting big companies to buy Macs instead of Dells, but actually getting companies to use iOS devices as part of their business infrastructure.
The latest example: Old Navy, the clothing retailer, is testing out iPod-based point-of-sale systems in its stores, 9to5Mac reports. These are the same little iPod touch-based credit card swiping systems that you see used in Apple's own retail stores.
Who knows if this will become widespread, but it's a huge potential new market for Apple.
And not just Apple doing it directly, but also via iOS software partners, such as the company we found offering an iPad- and SMS-based table-waiting service at a San Francisco restaurant.
Related: Here's How Apple Is Invading The Enterprise
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- Apple Is Hiring RIM's Enterprise Sales Employees
- THE APPLE INVESTOR: Mac Enterprise Market Share To Increase 57%
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Interview Questions for Enterprise Architects
Companies
interviewing enterprise architects look for a comprehensive technical skill set,
along with communication skills and a passion for the job.
"There
are a lot of people that interview and are passionate
about something else," says Craig Kapper, senior regional vice president
for Robert Half International. "You can be an okay communicator, but if
this is your life work and you are wildly passionate about it, you'll probably
get the job."
A
firm foundation in one or more current architecture is essential. These include
service-oriented architecture (SOA), model-driven architecture (MDA),
event-driven architecture (EDA) and object-oriented design (OOD). During an
interview, you should be able to explain your experience and give concrete
examples of where you implemented it. You need a solid understanding of
software development processes and methodologies, and should be able to explain
TCP networking, firewalls, routing and load balancing.
Here's some key questions you can expect to be asked.
Give
examples of enterprise architecture you designed and what type of protocols you
used.
A successful answer includes an explanation of your experience and the methodology that was leveraged, middleware that was used to interact with complex environments, and lessons learned.
How do you
see IT supporting new business initiatives?
This question attempts to reveal not only your experience and knowledge, but the vision you hold to transform and implement business strategies.
"The enterprise architect must be able to see big picture,
the forest as opposed to the trees," says Sandy Lambert, managing director
of recruiter Lambert and Associates.
What advice would you give server side Web developers wanting to ensure new code was secure from external attacks?
"Enterprise
level work is inevitably about security," says Kapper. With security a
major priority for an organization's infrastructure, enterprise architects must
have a solid understanding of current security processes, including encryption, authorization,
authentication and public key infrastructure.
What problems do you expect to encounter with an organization that has a "siloed" structure? How would you deal with it?
This is an organizational question that will be specific to a
company's network. Lambert asked this specific question to candidates for
Citibank in order to learn how they'd connect silos of a large and diverse
infrastructure and enable the enterprise vision.
What kind of cloud computing work have you done?
This is the first question Vasanthan Dasan, CTO
and vice president of engineering for the Armada Group asks of enterprise architects
during interviews. He's interested in hearing of how they see their role in the
ongoing trend in cloud computing and migration.
"The trend I've seen over the last three years has been organizations moving applications, infrastructure and network into a hosted cloud model," he says. "I believe that trend is going to continue for the next ten years as the majority of it infrastructure is moved to a hosted model."
Even if cloud computing experience may be on a candidate's resume,
Dasan asks this question to learn about a candidate's experience and knowledge
about cloud computing in his or her own words.
Describe how you migrated an application in a traditional architecture to the cloud.
Dasan follows up with this to see how a candidate solves problems
and approaches cloud migration with a specific architecture. At times he'll even
ask the candidate to demonstrate by drawing code and designs on a board.
"I'm looking for why they chose these methods, what features they included, what options and how they go about deciding certain components," he explains.
Prioritize the following criteria for a new code design based on importance, and explain your reasoning: performance, ease of maintenance, code accuracy, ease of use, and ease of adoption.
This one's tricky, since the right answer ultimately is what the client thinks is important. However, an honest assessment and identification that the right answer lies in an organization's needs is helpful.
Draw an
example of the architecture of a high transaction website or database, and
explain it.
This will test your knowledge, quick thinking ability and communication skills. The interviewer will look at load balances, Web servers, scalability, data modeling and among other things.
What
enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have you worked with?
Kapper also asks, or follows up, with related ERP questions such as: What platforms have you used for ERP implementation efforts? What ERP modules have you been specifically responsible for? What ERP tasks were you assigned to? What kind of network protocols do you use?
How did you measure success and moderate
performance in one of your projects?
"I'm really looking for good communication skills," Vasan says. "The ability to articulate, model the problem, extract solutions, define interfaces between components, and have good knowledge of what's possible implementation-wise, and what's available and tested in the marketplace."
Other questions:
What is the best project you ever worked on?
What did you
contribute to the project?
-- Chandler Harris
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Microsoft Moves Into Leaders Category on Forrester’s 2010 Enterprise BI Platforms Wave Q4 ’10
Microsoft has moved from the Strong Performer Category into the Leaders Category on Forrester's 2010 Enterprise BI Platforms Wave.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
THE APPLE INVESTOR: Mac Enterprise Market Share To Increase 57% (AAPL)
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AAPL Continues To Slide
Shares of AAPL continue to sell-off as the stock got ahead of itself going into earnings. We have updated our model including charts and graphs. Attention today is on the company's "Back to the Mac" press event starting at 1:00pm ET. Other upcoming catalysts include monthly NPD data (Mac / iPod business); holiday iPhone and iPad sales updates and carrier expansion; new content revenue streams such as video, books and social (Ping); and the uptake of refreshed Apple TV. AAPL trades at 14x Enterprise Value / Trailing Twelve Months Free Cash Flow (incl. long-term marketable securities).
Join Us For Apple's "Back To The Mac" Press Event (Business Insider)
For up to-the-minute coverage, analysis and commentary on today's press event, which starts at 1:00pm ET, join us at SAI. Will new MacBooks finally include built-in 3G?
Apple To Increase Enterprise Market Share By 57% (prMac)
Enterprise Desktop Alliance conducted a survey of IT administrators, which revealed that Macs will be the fastest growing systems in the enterprise through 2011. End users are seeing the value of the increased productivity of the Mac and IT administrators are finding the tools to integrate them into their current management environment. Macs will climb from 3.3% of all systems in 2009 to 5.2% in 2011 (an increase of 57%). In that same period, more than 25% of all net new systems to be added in the enterprise will be Macs. Dan Frommer at Business Insider also outlines how Apple is invading corporate life.
Ad Revenue Generated By The iPad Grew Over 300% In The Quarter (AppleInsider)
Advertising revenue generated from iPad users increased 316% in the September quarter, as the number of advertisers also grew by 94%, per a report by Millennial Media. iPad impression grew 156%, while ad requests grew 63% month-over-month in September alone. The iPad is the second-largest "connected device" tracked by Millennial Media, trailing only the iPod touch. The iPad surge helped Apple's iOS mobile operating system see a 10% overall increase in ad impressions. Still, iOS lagged behind rivals Android, which saw impressions grow 37% for the quarter, and RIM's BlackBerry which increased 18%.
Research Firm Bumps Up iPad Estimates Based On Component Availability (theMacObserver)
iSuppli has bumped its forecast for 2011 iPad sales to 43.7 million units, up from 36.5 million. The research firm based the increase on improved component availability, which plays well with the firm’s ongoing belief that the only constraint on sales remains iPad’s limited availability. Looking ahead to 2012, the company also increased iPad estimates to 63.3 million units from 50.4 million units. For the current calendar year, iSuppli nudged iPad shipping estimates from 12.9 million units to 13.8 million.
Half Of Apple's Revenue Comes From The iPhone (Business Insider)
Apple's iPhone business continues to surge. The company's phone division is now by far its biggest: An $8.8 billion business last quarter, representing more than 43% of Apple's overall sales, and growing more than 90% year-over-year. Meanwhile, the Mac had its best quarter ever ($4.9 billion), and the iPad represented almost twice as much revenue last quarter ($2.8 billion) as the iPod ($1.5 billion). But perhaps what's most remarkable is how fast Apple is still growing overall. At $20.3 billion in sales last quarter, Apple still grew 67% year-over-year. For comparison, Google grew revenues 23% year-over-year last quarter, and RIM grew 31% year-over-year in its most recent reported quarter.
How Apple Was Named Marketer Of The Year (GigaOm)
AdAge bestowed a major honor on Apple on Monday, naming it the first marketer of the decade for this millennium. There’s no denying that Apple’s brand is stronger than ever right now. The marketing publication cites many reasons for its victory, among them the launch of iAd, and the continued success of its brick-and-mortar stores. Maybe the most significant piece of marketing savvy shown by Apple during the past year was its management of the “Antennagate“ scandal that threatened to tarnish its highly polished quality control reputation.
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- THE APPLE INVESTOR: Apple Roars Into Earnings Despite Analyst Caution
- THE APPLE INVESTOR: Apple Shares On Fire And Show No Signs Of Slowing Down
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