Mobile Enterprise Adoption News: [MEAN] Summary-  Do you agree or disagree? After reading tweet me I agree that funding lacks devices in the enterprise world Cloud will be big, maybe MEAPs too – but Im Native for life. (liking that whole – reach feature thing) Claims SAP users buy anything SAP. Link. How Do You Make Money in Enterprise Mobility? A Prediction For the past six months I have been pondering how does a MADP (mobile application development platform) company make money in enterprise mobility?  I talk to literally thousands of people a year who are involved in enterprise mobility, and it seems many in the enterprise mobility vendor world continue to struggle to make sustainable profits. I spent many years as the CEO of a mobile platform and mobile app development company.   I can tell you from personal experience that it is incredibly hard to maintain an R&D funding pace that keeps up with, let alone surpasses, the pace of innovation in the market.  It seems like every time you identify a new set of features for a new version of your mobile platform, it is already obsolete and you are playing catch up. Most traditional mobile platform companies I think are struggling with the challenge of keeping up with the rapidly evolving mobility market.  They have a business model based on the assumption they can achieve economies of scale by closing an increasing number of very large and lucrative deals that will all use the same mobile platform code base.  The challenge is that finding the economies of scale, when mobility is evolving so rapidly is like chasing a rainbow.  It is very hard to achieve economies of scale with any particular platform version. In my mind the SAP Mobile Platform is a successful anomaly.  SAP has a massive user base that will buy anything from SAP, even if they don’t plan to use it for years.  SAP is often not selling a particular product and version, they are selling all mobile products and versions under the umbrella brand of SAP Mobile Platform.  In effect, they are selling a white box of mobile solutions that are near impossible to compare and...

Mobile Enterprise Adoption News: [MEAN] Summary: Alan Kay, former apple employee (1980s) isnt to happy about Apple’s iPad He is “hating” on Steve Jobs Should be designed like a house for functionality Dynabook design = old school convertible tablet, smart device thingy..  Basically calls iPad water down toys, for Angry Birds.. Old computing tech Link. Somewhere Steve Jobs isn’t smiling. Computer pioneer Alan Kay, a former Apple Fellow back in the ’80s, had some harsh things to say about the iPad and tablets in general tonight at a Silicon Valley event. Back in 1972 Kay wrote about his concept of a “Dynabook” described as a personal computer for children of all ages. An illustration he drew at the time looks like a tablet computer with a physical keyboard and stylus, and served as an inspiration for later portable computers. “We can praise Steve Jobs for a lot of things including his taste and vision,” said Kay. But the iPad? Not so much. Kay insists the iPad’s success has come despite it being an “anti-personal computer” that’s “difficult” and not any good for “symmetric creation” and has no undo. “The iPad’s been dumbed down so far it’s distressing,” said Kay, during a Churchill Clubevent sponsored by SAP. “And Microsoft of course followed suit with its interface.” In a later interview with TabTimes, Kay said personal computers should be designed like an architect designs a house, as a place where people are going to spend a lot of time and different people can exist there. Instead, he said computer design is driven by marketing departments and what will sell to the most number of people. Kay, currently President and founder of the nonprofit Viewpoints Research Institute, worked at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the 1970s where many key computer technologies were first developed including the graphical user interface, object-oriented programming and the first personal computer, the Alto, 40 years ago. Jobs’ famous visit to PARC greatly influenced the development of the Macintosh and also the NeXT computer developed by the namesake company he founded after leaving Apple.  (Dynabook illustration far right).  Research spawns trillions of dollars of wealth Kay said only a few dozen people at PARC worked on the Alto...

  Mobile Enterprise Adoption News: [MEAN] Summary- Another expert partnership announced Webalo Announces Enterprise Mobility Partnership Agreement with ProConversions Corporation The SharePoint™ and management consulting firm will offer Webalo’s cloud-based, self-service enterprise mobility platform to its customers in the Northeast U.S. March 21, 2013 09:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Webalo, Inc., announced today that it has engaged in a new partnership with ProConversions Corporation in Watertown, CT, aimed at creating a broader distribution channel in the lucrative enterprise mobility market. The agreement is part of the ‘Team Webalo’ partner program, Webalo’s strategy for building a diverse network of partners, including value added resellers (VARs), Systems Integrators (SIs), and wireless carriers. “We are delighted to partner with ProConversions so they can provide their customers with a turnkey solution for creating enterprise mobility in minutes” ProConversions will offer its customers Webalo’s secure, self-service enterprise mobility platform that lets companies create and deploy interactive, bi-directional access to enterprise applications and data 100x faster than traditional application development at a fraction of the cost. Enterprise-to-mobile capabilities are configured once and run, without modification, on any Android, Apple, BlackBerry, or Windows smartphones and tablets. Webalo provisions and maintains the cloud-based service, allowing ProConversions to provide its customers with mobile access to the enterprise without the time, cost, complexity, and IT skills needed for traditional enterprise application development, implementation, and maintenance. ProConversions provides integration expertise and consulting services to enhance Microsoft SharePoint™, specializing in front-end capture automation tools to create standardized methods for indexing content. Through its partnership with Webalo, ProConversions will enable its customers to access and take action related to that content directly from their mobile devices. “We are seeing strong demand from our customers for enterprise mobility solutions that can be deployed securely and quickly to meet current business needs and challenges,” said Mike Gaudino, ProConversion’s President. “We are very pleased to be part of ‘Team Webalo’ because it lets us provide a highly effective and cost efficient mobile platform to our clients with minimal effort. We pride ourselves on using the latest mobile technology combined with creative thinking to help our client’s easily surface data & reports regardless of carrier or where the content...

What if I told you, you never heard of the most popular paid mobile app world wide? Its called WhatsApp, and even billion dollar soccer teams use it to communicate (maybe not your normal enterprise) Now Im no WhatsApp expert, but this app is getting such great reviews, its time to put a blip on your radar. Think Facebook meets Skype, fun fact. Facebook tried to buy WhatsApp and was unsuccessful in 2012. Here is a great bio: “For the uninitiated, WhatsApp is an app that allows you to send free messages (text, images, audio and video) to anyone for free. It does for SMS and MMS messages what Skype did for voice calls. Unlike BBM, iMessage and others, it’s no walled garden. It works across networks and across Blackberry, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Symbian and others.”  Eamonn Carey So if this app goes viral, as it has in UK to Spain, in USA will it me the new enterprise messenger? With 3rd party sites start building apps off it and security packages? Only time to tell.   I like proactive real world reviews I “find in the wild”, not in the app market. Here is an impromptu, that even throws a nod to my Enterprise Adoption Formula Reddit User Hallx No usernames, login etc. Connecting only people in your existing contact list. Not too many permissions (unlike viber for example). Simple UI, easy interactions. No in your face popups or pushing you to take notice. Backing up, syncing, and ability to delete all messages. ability to export conversation history locally or to email it. sending file, pictures etc. Push messages etc. In short, it is not one feature. But the combination of all of them. They hit all the right notes. And first year free on android doesn’t hurt to get you hooked. Great App, Great Review by Hallx. (at this time user, has yet to return our...