Mobile device management, mobile app management (MAM), container-based apps, mobile virtualization, mobile backend as a service (MbaaS), network access control (NAC) and software-defined networking (SDN) are some of the various approaches that companies are using to manage fast-paced mobility adoption, according to a new...
Kony Solutions, a mobile and multi-channel application platform provider, held a press conference on Tuesday to announce its commercial launch in São Paulo. Along with opening its Brazilian office, the company announced that it already has a big client: Brazilian Banco Itau Unibanco, one...
Motorola Solutions latest bet is on a new class of hands-free enterprise mobile computers that use advanced voice recognition, head gestures and video streaming to navigate applications to access business-critical documents and schematics. With the so-called HC1, Motorola Solutions aims to redefine how work gets...
Germany giant software company SAP has taken a step further into the cloud computing market when it unveiled its plans for SAP Hana Cloud, a next-generation cloud platform based on in-memory technology. The company also announced the first offerings based on the platform: the general availability of...
Networking, cloud, consumerization and mobility are among top enterprise concerns. The so-called mobile-cloud is set to be the next major architectural transition, as companies everywhere start looking for effective strategies to harness cloud computing benefits, without disrupting their current business models. With an eye to...
Looking to tap into the growing mobile enterprise landscape, which is predicted to surge from an average of 2.8 devices per worker this year to 3.3 devices by 2014, Verizon Communications announced the expansion of its enterprise mobility as a service offering.
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Oracle highlighted its cloud computing strategies, and goals at this year’s Oracle Open World in San Francisco. During the show, which has an estimated audience of 50,000 attendees from over 140 countries, Oracle introduced seven new cloud-based services, which augment Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
In today’s world of high mobile expectations, fierce competition and fast-changing technology, it can be hard to convince businesses that...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
It is known that there is an issue related to the telecommunication infrastructure that supports mobility in the world. We...
More time is needed to understand the impact of the advent of mobile devices and tools in corporate business. Talking with members of the press during the IBM Forum held August 15-16 in São Paulo, the new IBM Brazil president, Rodrigo Kede, said the company...
“Mobile computing offers new challenges, but they are less about infrastructure and more about people. Mobile devices can carry a huge security risk,” said RSA executive chairman, Art Coviello, at the beginning of an interview with RCR Wireless News. “Behavior is going to be one of...
The corporate mobility market still has a huge potential for growth. Although it has been a while since enterprises started providing their employees with mobile devices, most enterprises remain focused on basic skills, such as sales force automation. That is why there is still...
The mobility, enterprise and consumer electronics industries are being funda¬mentally changed by a new type of business model called the “superstack.” Accenture defines a superstack
There is no going back when telecom operators move to become integrators of information and communication technology (ICT) , since carriers are seeking ways to avoid becoming just dumb pipe. "They aim to increase revenue through ICT by adding services to their business-to-business (B2B)...
Chile's Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) and German software company SAP have teamed up to offer mobile services to Entel's enterprise clients based on SAP's mobile platform.
“This is a step further in the offering of convergent services, complementing our actual services: SAP Hosting and...
LAS VEGAS - Like most large multi-nationals, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) can be challenged to orchestrate its different verticals, which ranges from business-focused products to end user-user focused personal devices. Distilling the range of objectives can even be complicated to digest, even for HP's employees –...
LAS VEGAS—After HP's turbulent year in 2011, with Léo Apotheker stepping down as CEO just 11 months after being named and the indecision over the future of its PC business, HP (NYSE: HPQ) used this week's HP Discover 2012 event to make its enterprise business strategies...
Are you prepared for the second wave of apps? A new Forrester Research report aims to answer this question. "We believe the market is poised for a second wave of consumer apps that are more personalized and contextual," Thomas Husson, Forrester Research principal analyst,...
It’s a delicate (some might say indelicate) question to ask – What is your mobile strategy? But I’ve learned not to make assumptions when companies come to us looking for help with their mobility issues.
Smartphones have been used in corporate environments for quite a while and, since the advent of Apple’s iPad, tablets have also flooded the enterprise environment. Sometimes, adoption is driven by users under the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon; other times it is the corporation that starts...
Increased mobility, cloud computing, and IT consumerization are the main enterprise trends that companies around the world are basing their strategies on. RCR Wireless News is watching these trends to learn how they are affecting companies and impacting chief information officers (CIOs).
Vendors, consulting firms,...
IBM (NYSE:IBM) unveiled Mobile Foundation, a portfolio of products and services designed to help organizations capitalize on the proliferation of mobile environments, at its ongoing Impact 2012 Conference in Las Vegas this week. Aimed at solutions for laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the new offering follows IBM's recent acquisition of Worklight and...
Google yesterday unveiled Google Drive, a cloud-based file storage, management, and sharing service. Its use in the workplace is inevitable and could present advantages, but it could also present some headaches to chief information officers (CIOs), according to Richard Edwards, a principal analyst at Ovum.
Using Google Drive, people can...
