Oracle
Opening Keynote | An Enterprise Cloud for Business-Critical Applications
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 Taking a stance of 'Build it and they will come' has never worked in IT and especially now with the Consumerisation of Mobility and the Prosumers (Professional + Consumer) in your Enterprise, whom are expecting or even demanding the same experience as Mobile Apps on the App Stores/Mark...Apr. 26, 2012 07:40 AM EDT Reads: 1,327 |
 Earlier this month it became widely publicized that Apple maintains complete control over the master encryption key to their marquee cloud offering, iCloud. Now, to anyone familiar with security and encryption this should come as no surprise. In order for nearly all consumer cloud serv...Apr. 19, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,261 |
 Here is #5. Five points the Mobile Information Worker expects from their Mobile Enterprise Data. 1. Always available and on-demand access to information (off-line and on-line). 2. New ways to interact and display data. 3. Reduce data re-entry error, by synchronising data. 4. Capture ne...Apr. 10, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 832 |
 Here is #3. Five points that makes an Engaging Enterprise Mobile App. 1. Extend existing systems by innovating in new ways. Just transferring a PC based or paper based solution is NOT enough. 2. Display/Consume data in new ways. 3. Keep UX design familiar to the deployment platform rat...Apr. 8, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 833 |
 Here is #2. Five points on how Enterprise Mobile Developers can improve the Relationships with their End Users. 1. Live several days in the life of your user observing work locations and patterns. 2. Have end users in on the design panel as well as the usability and testing. 3. Get buy...Apr. 7, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 861 |
 Today I thought I would put together five steps and five points within to producing 5-Star Mobile Apps. Here is #1 Five points when Building the Business Case for Mobile Enterprise Apps. 1. Create a Visionary Plan for more mobile Apps and know how they will aid and shape your enterpris...Apr. 6, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 980 |
 It's always been an important part of planning an Enterprise Mobile Development… How to get started?... How to take that first step? As a Mobile Evangelist, my experience covers many areas such as presentations, communications and especially technical developer skills, with knowledge o...Mar. 28, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,269 |
 Now that Mobility is part of our lives, we are all hooked on our Smartphone or Tablet device and take them everywhere we go, but we need to be aware of something that we almost take for granted… Data Connection & Usage! Especially if we are going abroad and hit the tricky subject of Da...Mar. 24, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 912 |
 This week I attended a Mobile Monday event sponsored by Barnes & Nobile (B & N) which discussed Tablet Computing and promoted their Nook Developer program. The Chair for the meeting was Marek Pawlowski, Founder and Organiser MEX @marekpawlowski and the Panel consisted of Claudio Romani...Mar. 21, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,033 |
 It may be an unusual angle, but your Enterprise IP Wireless Expert may be your best ally around when it comes to implementing your Mobile Device Security Strategies. The reason why I think this is that all of smartphone and tablet devices support wireless connectivity, and most data p...Mar. 17, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 947 |
 As I have already mentioned in many articles, Mobile Apps and Mobile Business Processes are becoming a routine part of daily work life, yet companies still wrestle with mobile security. They are totally correct to worry about how easily mobile devices are lost and stolen. They are also...Mar. 15, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,047 |
 Whether you build a Mobile Apps as part of a public product or service, or develop in-house Mobile Apps to support your own business processes, it is useful to keep an eye on what the government regulators are up to regarding all things mobile. There is a lot of debate about what, if a...Mar. 14, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 923 |
 I have talked a lot about the need to Mobilize Existing Business Systems and Processes in an innovative and strategic way and at the heart of this for Mobile App development is the Mobile Enterprise Application Platform or MEAP. This is important because mobile technology is evolving s...Mar. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 950 |
 Last week at Mobile World Congress 2012, was a very interesting time in Barcelona, Spain. I was lucky enough to meet and interview many of the Mobile Movers and Makers in the SAP community (see the list below).During the week I gathered the trends and futures on Mobility, Tablets, Mess...Mar. 6, 2012 04:00 AM EST Reads: 817 |
 Over the last year I have been quite a convert in the area of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as part of the Consumerisation of IT in Enterprise Mobility. It allows the Prosumer in the company to bring their own device into the workplace, increasing their productivity. Less training etc !...Feb. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,143 |
 Branding and Corporate Identity is another part of the Mobile Application UX that will be important from 2012 onwards. Compliance to a standard corporate visual design helps to build a consistent look and feel for your brand, that you have already have spent time and money on. Now you ...Feb. 13, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,244 |
 What should you always keep in mind when building your Mobile Business App? Mobile Applications should be available everywhere, though there may be restriction if Wireless 3G/Wifi is not. This may be because of geographic location or maybe restriction on the usage of radio signals. Per...Feb. 12, 2012 07:22 AM EST Reads: 1,007 |
 User eXperience or UX groups User Interface, User Interaction and Graphic Designs together that in turn aids, how your Mobile Application is perceived, learned and ultimately used. The key points of UX are the focus on real end users, the validation of their needs & requirements, under...Feb. 11, 2012 07:18 AM EST Reads: 1,201 |
 Mobile Business Applications should help users get their jobs done, intuitively, effectively and efficiently. This can be achieved with a Beautiful Mobile Application, which in turn means a great experience and that’s no different from consumer to business Applications. Now that the Pr...Feb. 10, 2012 08:54 AM EST Reads: 873 |
 If you have been reading my articles and blogs you will know that I am a staunch believer that the iPad is the Corporate Mobility game changer and enabler for the future and the Future of Mobility is NOW! I totally believe that the Mobile device is a tool for the future worker that can...Feb. 5, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,354 |
 In my last article I looked at the motivation behind and part of the iOS Developer's DNA. I mentioned that many great apps had started with a great 'iDea' that was either inspirational, formed by personal needs or to better apps that did not quite do it as well as they could have. It i...Feb. 4, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,323 |
 I have been lucky enough to travel over the last few years and either attend or work at events that centre around the iPhone and iPad, one of which being Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, but also regional iOS Developer User Group events. During this time...Feb. 3, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,043 |
 Lately there has been a lot of rumor on the web about the iPhone 5 and iPad 3. One thing that most people and technical loggers seem to agree on, along with more internal memory for running of programs and a faster processor is a thinner design and new innovative features such as the u...Feb. 1, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,257 |
 The world is becoming a mobile place and even if you are not a mobile worker in your daily job, you will want to interact while on the move, in your personal life. That is why the Smartphone, iPad or Converged Mobile Device as I like to call it, is a great success... It gives you acces...Feb. 1, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,217 |
 Enterprise Mobility has a lot of benefits, such as improving the efficiency of a company's business processes and their Information Workers alike.
If the term Information Workers is new to you, then a brief explanation is that they are traditional employees using corporate data in the...Jan. 31, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,812 |
 While Steve Jobs deserves full credit for incredible achievements not only at NEXT and Pixar, I believe what enabled Steve Jobs to succeed at Apple was his application of the "Apple Brand" to the iPod. Apple Computer always had a cult-like group of followers who were willing to pay a r...Oct. 28, 2011 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,852 |
 The first part of this post explained why a good user experience is critical to the success of an app. Now, here are a couple of ways in which developers can keep the people who download their apps, both internal and external audiences, coming back for more.
The mobile app developmen...Oct. 21, 2011 10:18 AM EDT Reads: 1,290 |
 An unapologetically random reprise of yesterday's Twitterstream in and among the executives, commentators, and other stakeholders in the Cloud Computing ecosystem...Oct. 7, 2011 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,789 |
 The delineation between great mobile apps and bad ones is becoming easier and easier to see as the mobile app ecosystem edges closer and closer to maturity. What makes a great mobile app? Simply put, it's a great experience for the user. The best apps in the current marketplace are th...Oct. 5, 2011 11:17 AM EDT Reads: 2,045 |
 Zachary Woolfe writes in a local newspaper, “On March 19, 1965, Maria Callas returned to the Metropolitan Opera after a seven-year absence...(her) first entrance set off a wave of applause for several minutes. There were 16 curtain calls at the end.”
Thus is “the mystical gift of ch...Aug. 29, 2011 04:14 AM EDT Reads: 3,221 |
 I wanted to use my article to tell you about some of the best productivity apps I have come across in the last year, which have really transformed how I work. If you are like me and constantly on the move and your Converged Mobile Device (SmartPhone and/or Tablet) has become your virtu...Aug. 18, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,839 |
 Thirty years ago today the IBM Personal Computer was launched igniting a new way of computing that empowered individuals and forever changed the way we work and play. In talking with some of the early pioneers, they knew they were on to something but really had no idea just how impactf...Aug. 15, 2011 10:36 AM EDT Reads: 1,573 |
 Just over a month ago I spoke to a few colleagues on the subject of Enterprise Mobility and I went into my Evangelistic mode proclaiming that...
"Mobility in business is now the norm and that any company that is not looking at mobilizing their workforce and creating Mobile Information...Jul. 10, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,705 |
 About 30 percent of enterprises -- that’s medium, large, as well as small enterprises -- are using app stores to deploy some of their applications at some level.
As enterprises and most business users rapidly adopt smartphones and make them mission-critical to their work and lives, ta...Jun. 1, 2011 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,324 |
 Big Data used to be confined to a few big problems being worked on by small numbers of people—meteorology, epidemiology, nuclear bomb simulations, other scientific applications.
Now a combination of ubiquitous sensors, continuous surveillance, and proliferating smart devices has bro...May. 16, 2011 06:49 AM EDT Reads: 2,740 |
 The mobile web is on the verge of accelerating worldwide computing and bandwidth requirements to a degree unimaginable just a few years ago. Only Cloud Computing will be able to handle this growth.
These thoughts occurred to me as I watched hordes of young Filipinos sampling the lat...May. 16, 2011 06:34 AM EDT Reads: 2,237 |
| I thought I would get the iThain's iPhone Crystal Ball out again, polish it up and gaze a few months ahead towards the end of 2011. First of all I have to say that I do not think we will see the device until the latter half of this year, maybe just before the end of the year holidays w... May. 6, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,350 |
 Everyone, even Cisco CEO John Chambers, agrees that it's time Cisco got back to being a plumber. Time to rid itself of all its consumerish pretensions. This would also be a great time to shed its image-oriented TV commercial barrage that positions the company somewhere between the UNIC...Apr. 12, 2011 10:23 AM EDT Reads: 2,280 |
 The best way to facilitate mobile enablement projects is with focused, goal oriented, up-front planning that doesn’t underestimate the complexity of the process, especially when dealing with traditional data integration techniques.
Mobile adoption rates are on the rise and if market r...Mar. 18, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,335 |
 Welcome to article number 6 in my series of 8, covering the creation of an Enterprise iOS application using the Sybase Unwired Platform, with the ability to synchronize data. So far I have covered the overview of a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) and the benefits it bring...Feb. 25, 2011 09:20 AM EST Reads: 2,717 |
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