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IBM has signed a seven-year, $1.25 billion contract with Lufthansa to integrate mobile, social and analytics technologies across Lufthansa's business.
The outsourcing contract, worth a billion Euros over its period, will involve "(incorporating) business analytics with mobile computing and social business" both in terms of...
SAP has announced two major deals: one with Nokia, to integrate geo-location data from its Here unit into SAP's HANA in-memory data platform, and one with Samsung to develop an enterprise mobility ecosystem based on Samsung mobile devices, including wearables for business applications.
SAP "plans...
Mobility in the enterprise has moved beyond device management to applications and from stand-alone solutions to a full platform approach to mobility, and adoption of custom business apps is exploding, according to the latest quarterly mobility survey from Good Technology.
Custom app adoption in the...
Seeking to leverage big data, mobile and social technologies to impact customers' banking experience, IBM and Bank of China's Tianjin Branch have completed a new, flagship "smart branch" location in the northern Chinese port city.
IBM provided industry insight and consulting on the branch project,...
With enterprises constantly looking for ways to manage operational expenses, costs related to ever-increasing dependence on mobile services have come under greater scrutiny. One model for enterprises to get a handle on these expenses is through the use of managed mobility services, which can...
Enterprises continue to be a maddening market for the mobile space as corporations are often some of the more profitable wireless consumers while at the same time often seen as taxing mobile operators in terms of the support needed to broadly deploy wireless services...
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Sprint is looking to attract high-value enterprise customers from rivals with a new promotion that mimics what it has already been offering to consumers.
Sprint said that through the end of the month, business customers that bring their phone number to Sprint and activate a...
Enterprises continue to struggle with mobilizing their workforce, specifically with how to handle the distribution of mobile devices. The battle is typically between company-provided devices or allowing employees to bring their own device into the corporation through a “bring-your-own-device” model.
A number of companies have...
SHANGHAI — Huawei’s enterprise unit was formed just three years ago, but the Chinese company has big ambitions for the unit. The company has set a target of $10 billion in revenues by 2017, a significant increase compared to the $2.5 billion that the...
AT&T has tapped its ongoing push into software-defined networking solutions to launch an on-demand service designed to allow enterprise customers to provision services in “near real time.”
AT&T said the Network on Demand platform will allow enterprise users to control contracting and ordering of network...
SHANGHAI — Huawei has set a target for its recently launched enterprise business to become the leader in the IT infrastructure field.
“We are leveraging our strength to the IT field,” said Eric Xu, rotating CEO and deputy chairman of the board at Huawei Technologies,...
The implications of this announcement for the future are wide reaching if you consider the breath of SAPs portfolio along with Ericsson’s installed base and its ability to provide network-aware solutions. The initial offer is focused on SAP’s enterprise mobile management solution. Focusing on...
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David Smith, director of state and local government for Citrix, spoke with RCR's Kelly Hill about the recent Mobile Work Exchange report commissioned by the company examining trends in government mobility readiness.
Mobile Work Exchange is a public-private partnership that focuses on mobility in the government...
The latest quarterly report on enterprise mobility from Good Technology showed "significant growth" in activations of secure instant messaging (IM), customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence (BI) applications that have usually been relegated to desktop access. Good found that the total number of...
The move to the cloud for enterprises continued to accelerate, with a new report from the Harvard Business Review and commissioned by Verizon Communications finding 70% of those surveyed had adopted cloud computing into their operations.
Of those firms that have adopted cloud computing, the...
A new survey sponsored by Oracle shows that enterprises expect that the resources devoted to mobile applications and devices will grow significantly in the next few years, and that companies prefer to keep their mobile app development internal.
The survey found that the average IT...
While the markets have reacted to this announcement, both BlackBerry and MobileIron shares have fallen. I think we need look at the cause and effect in both the short and long term to truly understand the overall impact.
You can forgive the enterprise space for getting a big head as it seems a day has not gone by in which some new mobile enterprise partnership or solution has not been announced.
The latest ego-boosting move was made by Sprint, which said beginning in...
IBM has been a stalwart in the computing and software industry for as long as there has been a computing and software industry. This leadership has greatly profited the company, but at the same time left it with a stale reputation as an old-school...
Software-defined networking solutions continue to push across the wireless telecommunications space, with the latest push targeting wireless local area networks. NEC’s American operations announced an agreement with Meru Networks to work on integrating SDN-enabled wired and wireless enterprise access networking solutions.
The deal calls for...
IBM and Apple have announced a major global collaboration for enterprise mobility that encompasses IBM's offerings in big data and analytics, Apple's mobile devices, and a host of new native iPhone and iPad applications custom-built for specific verticals. The two companies called the IBM MobileFirst...
