Deployment & strategy

News, stats, trends and case studies about iPad and other tablet deployments, and strategic advice on using tablet devices in your organization.

When the pro-racing division of Toyota Motors said it needed a mobile computing platform to monitor real-time performance data, it turned to Microsoft Surface Pro tablets running Windows 8.

A division of the U.S. Department of Defense is using a ruggedized tablet and specialized software combination to collect and retain health data in harsh conditions especially in places where Internet connectivity is not always available.

A few years ago, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreesen wrote an article explaining why software is eating the world. His fundamental premise was that both the access to the Internet and the tools to develop quality software with ties to the Web have become pervasive.  

Having a hard time controlling personally-owned tablets and smartphones in the workplace? Get used to it, because a new study claims that 50% of all workers will be required to bring in their tablets and smartphones to work by 2017.

Some businesses may boast about how tablets have transformed employee productivity, but others are having a hard time keeping workers away from Facebook, Twitter and other tablet time drainers. But if that’s you, don’t fret -- here is what you can do to sort it all out.

New York -- An American Airlines executive kicked off the Tablet Strategy conference by detailing the airline’s rapid adoption of tablets and aggressive strategy going forward.

Just as the Web spawned the Intranet and other enterprise systems that are ubiquitous today, the app world is helping to make legitimate productivity tools out of a whole range of mobile.

There is an interesting shift happening in the hardware release cycle of the computing industry. When the PC was the only game in town bi-annual release schedules were the norm.

Extended Results CEO Patrick Husting reveals Acer’s Iconia W510 to be his Windows 8 tablet of choice for business, even comparing it to the enterprise-conquering iPad.

While guitars, drums and microphones are the standard tools for School of Rock students, tablets are helping the organization’s after-school program keep up with the times, reach a new generation of musicians and turn up the volume to 11.

Facebook Home is supposed to be the next-generation in the way we interact with mobile devices. That is, if you actually believe what the world’s largest social network has to say.

A new research survey of 100 tablet deployments whose results were first disclosed to TabTimes finds sales executives are still struggling with their tablet strategy after three years of hands-experience with the iPad and other modern tablets.

From streaming Christian prayers to being used by mothers to check up on their new-born child, two new case studies prove that tablets have universal appeal.

Three years ago today Apple released the first iPad, and it’s fair to say that Apple’s tablet has had a profound effect on how people, especially in business, now use computers.

Chris Simmonds of Intuitive Surgical shared how fast-growing Intuitive Surgical's sales team of over 800 people uses video and custom apps on the iPad to show off the features of his company's da Vinci Surgical System.

There’s a fast-approaching disconnect between the devices IT managers want employees to use and the devices employees actually want to use. The reason is simple; the device market is maturing and consumer choice is more diverse than it has ever been.  

More than 20 speakers in fields such as biotech, education, retail, healthcare, and sales eagerly shared their experiences with our audience at TabTimes TABLET STRATEGY West.

Microsoft can take some satisfaction that it didn’t lose Lockheed IT manager Doug Lampe to the competition -- at least he’s sticking with Windows.