Its that time of year to talk top enterprise mobile apps of the year! We like to yearly submit a few apps, and enterprise technologies, for the Enterprise Mobility Awards 2014. We asked you the readers for thoughts, here are some selections: “Waze App: They are defining a new trend in crowd-sourcing data and have been very successful in developing techniques for validating multiple sources – one of the biggest challenges in crowd-sourcing of data.” “Dashlane: Not completely focused on the enterprise – but Dashlane or Dashlane for Teams. Best password manager that does pretty well across Android and iOS given limitations, in addition to supporting desktop OSs across several browsers.” “Invader: There’s one digital magazine I personally really like which is called “Invader”. It’s a computer games magazine that offer a Newsstand app, Android app, iPhone app and also the embedded web viewer. It’s highly interactive and really enjoy its design and balance between reading content and interactivity. But they’ve been around for longer than 2014.” But we are still calculating votes, and picking our final enterprise app picks. So please get you final vote tweets/emails in! @TheDiMassa   ...

Today we gathered some of the top mobile enterprise analysts for their expert opinions on enterprise mobility in 2015. Lets get right into it.   1) What are your top 3 hints for CIOs dealing with enterprise mobility in 2015? [HAZELTON] For all IT projects in 2015, if not mobile first – at the very least mobile compatible. It is a lot to ask for IT to go mobile first, particularly when users are not quite ready to ditch their laptops. That said, there will be significant growth in enterprise mobile apps in 2015 (but see question #3 below). Embrace business unit development of mobile apps – while at the same time providing a path to consistency for app development and provisioning across the company. BYOD is not all its cracked up to be. There are very rarely cost savings from BYOD. For companies and divisions of companies that are serious about mobile – the cost saving from not buying the device will not offset some of the challenges that come with heterogeneous device environments. We may see companies standardizing on a popular consumer device to alleviate security and management concerns. [LOPEZ] Job one: Securing content that gets mobile enabled. Job two: Prioritizing what needs to be mobile enabled and defining the best part of apps work flows to mobile enable. Job three: Finding a way to scale mobile app development. [FEATHERSTON] Focus on user experience not the device. People are mobile and the devices are simply the  conduit. Whether it’s employees or customers, we are a mobile society and devices are the tools that help the ‘mobile individual’ be more productive. Work with the users to understand how they work and provide value. Don’t just play defense. Many enterprise mobile strategies are nothing more than protection from mobile devices. System and data security are an important part of any enterprise mobility strategy, but should not be the only part. Defense only strategies also perpetuate the perception of IT as the ‘group that says no’. Your strategy should encompass the ecosystem, balancing value and risk, and explaining the tradeoffs to the business. Mobility strategy is not optional; it’s the price of admission. The mobile genie...

Today we virtually rounded up two experts to get their Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Review and opinions, with Adobe making headlines recently. This Gartner magic quadrant resident, has released some news last week creating a buzz on social sites and in the mobile app world. But lets get right to the experts: 1) Thoughts on the Adobe DPS news? BRANISLAV: Adobe removing Single Edition from the Creative Cloud… that was a move they did too early because they propose now to their customers to rely on Fixed-layout EPUB that is not an app and that does not yet support the majority of Folio Overlays, in a fixed-size unique orientation. Designers can’t present to their clients the Fixed-Layout EPUB format as an alternative to the Folio format.   If Adobe embeds in a Fixed-Layout EPUB all the features that DPS support (Scrolling content, Pan & Zoom, Image Sequence,…), then only this will work. When will Adobe do that? There is also no guarantee that every EPUB3 readers will be able to read these overlays. The experience shows that for instance iOS7 was not able to read Edge animations in EPUBs. The great advantage of apps is that they are more universally readable on many platforms and devices than EPUBs. But this could change in the next two years.   BART: I wasn’t entirely surprised about the news, but that doesn’t mean I’m entirely happy with this decision. I think the DPS SE did fill in a gap and allowed business to publish simple apps on the App Store. SE has always been a light­weight solution that didn’t really offer the back­end system that makes digital publications interesting, nor did it offer you full control over the distribution of your app. And these things made the SE solution a half­baked product. But for some businesses this was enough as they were just looking to set their first steps into the App Store.   Later they would maybe evolve towards other more high­end solutions like a Pro or Enterprise type license. But in general it’s actually an odd thing that designers have to become app developers in order to get your publications into the App Store. Don’t forget that we’re still into publishing, not app...