Those of you who visit this site regularly know how much I am a fan of FMC or Fixed Mobile Convergence. For those of you less familiar with the term, it's the alphabet soup way of saying you can make or receive your desk calls on your mobile. I've been a fan of this type of solution since I made the prediction that FMC would be the next killer application for enterprise mobility. Admittedly, that was back in January 2008. While there have been many advances since that time in the space, it's not had the broad adoption I expected to have by now. Maybe that will change with today's news.
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I know, I know...another inflamatory title to a post, but bear with me here people. Last year, I had suggested that Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) was going to be the next killer application for enterprise mobility during 2008. I wasn't right (see an analyst admitted he was wrong!), per se, but hear me out on this...
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Hopefully you got to enjoy some good champagne with family and friends yesterday. 2008 was another great year for enteprise mobility, as organizations over the last 12 months continued to make investments in mobile devices, applications and solutions. What better time than January 2, the first business day of 2009, to make some predictions for what 2009 holds for enterprise mobility. Here are my five....along with some companies I think we should all keep our eyes on.
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If you've followed this blog for the past year, you'll recognize that the title of this post actually combines some of my favorite topics in the world of enterprise mobility: challenging the whole notion of productivity gains (and the hype brought by vendors) and fixed mobile convergence, which I said earlier this year would be the next killer application for enterprise mobility.
I had the pleasure last week to meet once again with Pejman Roshan, founder and VP of Marketing at Agito Networks, one of my favorite companies in the FMC space. It's not just that I believe Agito has a solid product, but I also enjoy my conversations with Pej. He and I don't always see eye to eye, but it's always a healthy, and respectful debate.
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I just stumbled across an interesting article over at PC World talking about Motorola's forthcoming enterprise mobility plans. I actually had the pleasure of meeting Motorola's Brian Havener at CTIA who shared the information you can read in the article, as well as other forthcoming plans that I can't share because of all those crazy NDA rules. Regardless, the information that has been disclosed addresses some of the two biggest issues that have been on my mind for a long time for both Good and Symbol. 1) How does Good (and others for that matter) compete with Microsoft when Redmond provides push email solutions for free and 2) How does Motorola's enterprise division find a way out of the consumer division's grey cloud?
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This is a copy of an article that was recently published in Mobile Enteprise Magazine. Hope you enjoy it...
While wireless and mobile solutions have been around for decades, the accelerated adoption of these solutions only began in the enterprise when RIM and others pioneered the concept of pushing email to mobile devices.
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Steve Jobs announced yesterday the iPhone developer program as well as the iFund in partnership with venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The announcement showed a lot of promise, including the fact that Apple has licensed ActiveSync from Microsoft, but it also left me with some unanswered questions that keep me skeptical regarding the viability of the iPhone in the enterprise.
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Unlike most people who actually have social lives, I spent the majority of this past weekend in front of my computers trying to understand why my home WiFi network was all messed up. Although I had had everything working well for some time, my router decided to give me more than its usual headaches. The whole process in fact made me question where we stand with the 802.11n standard.
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In case you didn't hear this, T-Mobile is set to announce tomorrow that it is following in the footsteps of AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and even Helio, in offering unlimited voice services for $99 per month. I think this is great news on multiple levels, including the further canabilization of the fixed line market....why pay $50/month for a landline and pay another $50 for a mobile phone? This is all great for the consumer, but I think there are even more exciting opportunities in terms of enterprise mobility around fixed mobile convergence.
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In the last 18 months, mobility has become one of the most exciting facets of the I.T. industry. That said, mobility is still a relatively new area for enterprise I.T. departments. Almost every day, new devices, applications, services and tools are driving opportunities for organizations to:
- Accelerate the speed at which they and their employees react to external events;
- Ensure that employees are able to address customer needs as quickly as possible;
- Ultimately fulfill mobility's promise of allowing individuals to be "productive" regardless of where they're located.
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