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Blogs in Mobility Management and the CIO

Mobile Innovators in the Minority, Says CIO Study

CIOs also cite finding mobility skills as major challenge.

Quick Post by Joanie Wexler,
Community Manager
, May 21 2013

A new report from recruitment and employment firm Harvey Nash Group indicated a strong CIO focus on mobility, cloud, and collaboration. The company’s 8th annual study tabulated poll responses from more than 2,000 CIOs, who indicated that finding mobile and cloud computing skills in the talent pool were among their key challenges. According to the study, 68% of those surveyed said they will invest more in mobility in 2013, 58% will increase their cloud computing investments, and half will invest more in collaboration.

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Infographics in The Mobile Worker

BYOD 2013: Healing IT headaches

The promise of increased productivity, collaboration, job satisfaction and cost-savings make BYOD a hard-to-resist option for management. But IT feels the pain of resource strain and other details.

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Blogs in Enterprise Mobile Apps and Beyond

Innovation and User Interfaces: The Inherent Danger

Innovative new user interfaces attract a lot of ohs and ahs – but do they really add productive value for business users of mobile devices?

Blog post by Craig Mathias, May 18 2013
Farpoint

You may have heard that Microsoft is going back to the Start Menu in the next release of Windows 8. It seems that too many users were simply confused by the new tiled user interface. Sales are obviously being affected by this, not to mention by a general decline in PC purchases overall. I’ll avoid digressing into a discussion of the post-PC era here, but suffice it to say that users rendered unproductive by wholesale and gratuitous changes in the user interface (UI) of IT devices are more than poor customers – they’re a money sink for the organizations that depend upon productive users.

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Videos in Mobility Management and the CIO

Work-Personal Data Is Separate: What About Voice?

The buzz around mobile application management, or MAM, shows that the mobile industry is making great strides with separating personal and work data on a single device. That’s very important for any number of security, privacy and liability issues – both from the point of view of the enterprise and that of the employee. 

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Videos in The Mobile Worker

Is 'The Enterprise' a Mobile Market Anymore?

 

Is “The Enterprise” really a mobile market anymore?

This question might seem strange, given that the video you are watching has been produced by the Enterprise Mobile Hub. By definition, we’re focused on enterprise mobility issues here at the Hub.

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Blogs in Mobile-to-Mobile

Smartphones Head Down-Market

Developing countries might never experience wired calling or Internet connectivity.

Blog post by Michael Finneran, May 17 2013
M. Finneran

One of the more interesting announcements coming out of this week’s BlackBerry Live conference in Orlando was a cheaper version of the Q10 qwerty device called the Q5. This follows a spate of announcements about lower-cost smartphones aimed at the more cost-conscious markets in the developing world.

People in the U.S. and other developed countries often lose sight of the fact that there are a lot of places that don’t sell Gucci, Louis Vuitton, or other luxury brands. However, they do sell cell phones, and they sell a lot of them.

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Videos in Mobility Management and the CIO

Want Innovation? Change the Budget Process

Community Video by Paul Calento, May 16 2013

Good ideas can only go so far when an organization's budget is set up to address other objectives, suggests Paul Calento.

New ideas, processses and approaches are often discussed in the context of enterprise mobility decision making. Calento argues that innovation is doomed to fail within an existing budget. Why? They don't align with previous purchase patterns, budget guidance from management and various fiefdoms determining what, where and how much is spent.

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Videos in Mobility Management and the CIO

BYOD is a Fad

Community Video by Paul Calento, May 16 2013

A recent blog post from Joanie Wexler declares, "Corporate-Liable Programs to Wane, Says Gartner."

Paul Calento refutes this notion, contending that the bring-your-own-device trend is driven by deficiencies in a previous wave of IT purchasing that is soon to be corrected.

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Blogs in Mobile Device Management

Reporter’s Notebook: Q&A Tidbits from BlackBerry Live

Attendees learn specifics about iOS and Android management support in BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.

Blog post by Joanie Wexler,
Community Manager
, May 16 2013

BlackBerry Live attendees grilled a few of the company’s product folks on how the BlackBerry Management Studio app for BES10 environments manages iOS and Android devices alongside BlackBerry’s own devices during an open Q&A session at this week's conference. Among the BlackBerry panel of experts were Robert Bowerman, VP, enterprise software, development and architecture; Stephan Hellerbrand, a senior enterprise product manager, and Danny Sanok, manager, product management, Enterprise Mobility Management server team.

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Blogs in Enterprise Mobile Apps and Beyond

Mobile Ecosystem in Full Swing at BlackBerry Conference

BlackBerry opens BBM to other platforms, supports Skype on Z10, adds social media channels, launches mid-market device.

Blog post by Joanie Wexler,
Community Manager
, May 14 2013

BlackBerry is knocking itself out to become pervasive and impossible to ignore. During the opening session of the company's BlackBerry Live user conference in Orlando, Fla., this morning, CEO Thorsten Heins was practically clucking about all that the company has accomplished in the past year. He noted that at last year's conference, some were saying it would be his "first and only" such event. Instead, he said, while "there's still a lot of work to do, man, we have reached solid ground with this company.

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