Enterprise

News, stats, reviews, how-to, case studies, apps and accessories to help you use iPad and other tablets in the enterprise.

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Enterprise beware: Rein in your roaming, or suffer the consequences

As ridiculous as it sounds, a $75,000 roaming bill is a very real possibility in the age of 4G. Smart organizations will take steps to make sure this never happens.
by Dan Rudich

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Print Plus: How digital publishing is moving beyond eBooks and into the enterprise

With the explosive growth of tablet devices worldwide, the necessity for packaging content in a standard book format, along with the limitations in doing so, have effectively been eliminated.
by Ivan Dwyer

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A stylish database for iPad? First impressions of FileMaker 12

Most database forms are rarely glamorous or good-looking, but that’s a view which Apple subsidiary FileMaker is hoping to change with its latest database software, FileMaker 12, which launched yesterday. Here's a closer look.
by Doug Drinkwater

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Six guiding principles for any organization considering tablets for their business

Is it possible to craft a tablet strategy that encompasses both BYOD and corporate provisioning, and also satisfies everyone?
by David Heit

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Tablets are making business deskphones a dying breed

The advent of tablet-based smartphones has some less-than-obvious implications for corporate telephony
by Todd Carothers

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Accellion on mobile file sharing: 'There's no control with Dropbox"

Think Dropbox and Box are the only options out there for mobile file sharing? One company, which counts the likes of Ogilvy, Rolex, Prada and Procter & Gamble among its customers, reckons you're making one big mistake.
by Doug Drinkwater

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Technology companies are completely misreading the value and significance of tablets

Technology companies that underestimate the significance of the touch-tablet revolution will suffer greatly.
by Ben Bajarin

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How tablets are fueling the democratization of video conferencing

This past year ushered in the era of mobile in unified communications, with the proliferation of front-facing camera tablets fueling the fire.
by Mariette Johnson Wharton

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The changing role of IT in the evolving mobile workforce

The rapid, widespread adoption of smartphones and tablets has undoubtedly changed the way we work today.
by Pat Lee

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BYOD vs. company deployment: Why you don’t have to choose anymore

When combined with good policy-making, mobile application management offers an efficient escape from the BYOD/corporate trajectory.
by Chad Udell

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Why your company should be preparing for the new iPad—even if you’re not buying

Apple's new iPad may have some unintended consequences for the enterprise.
by Michael Dortch

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The 8 industries that can best utilize Apple's new iPad

From doctors to game developers to broadcasters to teachers and more, TabTimes looks at which industries will gain the most from Apple's all-new tablet.
by Doug Drinkwater

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Top 5 ways the new iPad will impact business

Apple didn't talk business very much in today's announcement of The New iPad. But it's clear that the business customers are a key target.
by Ben Bajarin

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Todd Barr: You will feel tablet buyer’s remorse - here’s a three-step cure

What happens after the shine wears off of your company's new work tablets? For smart organizations, a whole lot.
by Todd Barr

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The 25th Mobile World Congress in pictures

The four-day Mobile World Congress 2012 is now over. To give you a quick visual tour of the themes of the show, TabTimes presents a slideshow of our top pictures from the event.
by Doug Drinkwater

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The 9 most important tablet trends and topics from Mobile World Congress 2012

This year, MWC was dominated by new smartphones, tablets, and lots of talk about ‘paradigm shifts’ to cloud computing, BYOD and HTML5 web-apps. But what were the main tablet trends, and who emerged from the Barcelona show with their reputation intact?
by Doug Drinkwater

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SAP's Oliver Bussmann: 'There's only one player for tablets in enterprise - I guarantee Android will change that'

A confident SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann told TabTimes in Barcelona that Android can beat Apple for enterprise mobility - and explains how his company, along with Samsung, are going to do it.
by Doug Drinkwater

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5 Tablet-driven challenges facing enterprises in 2012

What keeps you up at night? BYOD? Security? Windows? All of the above?
by Michael Dortch

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Kamal Anand: How to bring air traffic control to BYOD wireless congestion

The flood of Wi-Fi devices is choking wireless networks and consuming IT resources at schools, hospitals, hotels and business offices. Virtual wireless architectures are the answer.
by Kamal Anand

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Mobile World Congress 2012: 4G tablets, HTML5 apps and the musings of Cisco and Google

Now in it's 25th year, Mobile World Congress is being held in Barcelona, Spain. This year's theme is 'Redefining Mobile'.
by TabTimes Staff

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The 8 industries and professions most rapidly impacted by tablets

Thanks to IT consumerization and BYOD, tablets are becoming more common in the workplace. Some industries are evolving more rapidly than others, however.
by Doug Drinkwater

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Mobile World Congress 2012: 8 key tablet trends, questions, and predictions

Tablets should figure prominently in Mobile World Congress (MWC), which takes place next week in Barcelona. Here's a preview of what more business-minded tablet users can expect.
by Doug Drinkwater

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This Week in Tablets: Apple can't lose, but Google and Microsoft sure can

TabTimes Editor George Jones picks the week’s tablet winners and losers.
by George Jones

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Ben Bajarin: The second coming of the real-time enterprise, powered by tablets

Ultra mobile personal computers by companies like OQO were the vanguard of the on-demand enterprise. Tablets are the ultimate realization of this dream.
by Ben Bajarin

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Michael Lee: Are tablets right for your supply chain operation?

There are four important questions you should ask before your organization deploys tablets into its supply chain.
by Michael Lee

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Richard Rabins: Why truly successful enterprise tablet deployments will leverage HTML5

Tablets are being deployed in the enterprise, but the usage of tablets hasn't really been big news to date. That's about to change.
by Richard Rabins

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Is Mozilla's App Marketplace a panacea for multi-platform businesses?

Mozilla’s plans for a hardware agnostic mobile app marketplace are ambitious. But will it find traction with enterprise users?
by Seamus Bellamy

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Lantronix xPrintServer review: Easy printing from iPads and iPhones

Printing from your iPad just got much, much easier.
by George Jones

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Why tablet strategies for academia differ from that of corporate enterprises

Academia is an enterprise, too, although it exhibits some markedly different characteristics.
by Paul E. Fisher Jr.

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SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann: "I see two roadblocks for Android not taking off in the enterprise"

Oliver Bussmann talks BYOD, BYOA, and why the German enterprise software giant sees Samsung's Android tablets as the most advanced.
by David Needle

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Android isn't free if tablet OEMs have to roll their own enterprise solutions

A dearth of enterprise support and device management controls is leaving Android out in the cold. Third-party manufacturers are trying to warm it up.
by Ben Bajarin

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