The Future of Mobile Enterprise Applications

The following link is to an article called “RIM VP on Mobile Enterprise Apps: Today and Tomorrow” written by: Al Sacco for CIO.com.

http://www.cio.com/article/357078/RIM_VP_on_Mobile_Enterprise_Apps_Today_and_Tomorrow

In an economy where it is estimated that nearly 95% of organizations are utilizing mobile applications, the future of this technology is extremely important. The future of mobile enterprise and Interbusiness applications is exactly what this article discusses. In the article, Research in Motion’s (RIM) Vice President of global alliances, Jeff Mcdowell, offers three predictions for the future of mobile enterprise applications. First, with the addition to media players to smart phones, there will be an explosion of multimedia applications. Mcdowell references the company Chalk. Chalk is a company that produces short training videos, or "push-casts," optimized for BlackBerry’s. One video that the company created lasted a minute-long and told how to operate the new photocopiers at a customer's office, and it was pushed to the handhelds of every user who needed instructions, saving time and money on in-person or individual sessions. Next, mobile applications will have deep integration with other systems. Your mobile device will be able to have integration with corporate systems and cites the SAP CRM for BlackBerry as a prime example. Lastly, he expects to see the appearance of social networking on mobile enterprise devices. This is a topic that I have already blogged about and Mcdowell feels that businesses are seeing the value of social networking and thinks that it effectively allows employees to share information.