Enterprise Mobility: How to Unshackle Your Mission-Critical Applications

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How to unshackle your mission-critical applications: Two cases studies describe different approaches to providing employees with secure access to corporate information systems. Enterprise Mobility: Unshackling Your Mission-Critical Applications2007
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Motorola Good Technology Group 1 What's Inside?Phone: 866-7-BE-GOOD 2 Opportunity AwaitsOnline: www.motorola.com/good 4 Getting There from Here5 Case Studies14 Discoveries & Next Steps15 About the Authors16 For More InformationEnterprise Mobility: Unshackling Your Mission-Critical Applications2007
What's Inside?During the last 5 years, the mobile landscape has been swept by change. While telecommunications providers have been investing in faster networks to support multimedia and data services, falling prices and shrinking components have put signi? cant power into affordable devices that slip comfortably into a pocket. Beyond enabling an increasingly mobile workforce with basic email and calendar synchronization, however, enterprises have been slow to capitalize on these advancements. Although enterprise mobility remains in the nascent stages, traditional arguments against deploying mobile applications - cost, performance, management and security - have largely been countered by mobile platforms that make unshackling your enterprise applications surprisingly easy and cost effective.Motorola Good Technology Group In this paper, two case studies illustrate different approaches to unlocking the value of existing investments through mobilization. Each case study provides an overview of an application we Phone: 866-7-BE-GOOD mobilized, identi? es the characteristics that made the application a good candidate and explains the Online: www.motorola.com/good value realized by enabling access to these applications from mobile devices. The paper concludes with some lessons learned and steps you can take to bring similar value into your organization.

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Opportunity AwaitsSince the mobile telephone was ? rst introduced, "The number of workers network effects and wireless deployment costs vis-à-vis traditional wire-line networks have propelled global with mobile access to adoption of cellular technologies along an exponential growth curve. The high cost and bulky nature of early corporate email has phones often relegated them to the province of the elite. The evolution of computing and communications grown wildly as mobile technology eventually drove down prices, putting corporate-sponsored phones in the hands of knowledge email platforms such as workers beyond the Fortune 500 executives alone. Motorola Good Technology Group Sales, Service, or Technical workers in companies large Good Mobile Messaging Phone: 866-7-BE-GOOD and small alike began enjoying access to the earliest of mobile devices, the cell phone. have become broadly Online: www.motorola.com/good Mobile services evolved rapidly as the networks available and priced became more robust and advanced. Although early phones were limited to analog voice service, the within reach of many introduction of digital cellular networks in the early 90s paved the way for services such as the Short Messaging tiers of workers below System (SMS). The following decade saw SMS traf? c explode. In 2006, global SMS traf? c is expected to 1Mobile Messaging Futures 2005-2010. the executive ranks."exceed one trillion messages and contribute $55 billion Portico Research. June 27, 2005. Sum- 1mary online: http://www.portioresearch. to carrier revenues . The number of workers with mobile com/MMF05-10.html access to corporate email has grown wildly as mobile email platforms such as Good Mobile Messaging have become broadly available and priced within reach of many tiers of workers below the executive ranks. With carrier introductions of HSDPA and EVDO, network speeds continue to increase dramatically, providing broadband-like access to a mobile device that now shares more functionality with a laptop than it does the pager-style, text-centric device it evolved from. Voice and email over a carrier network are readily available and in widespread use. Applications typically have web-based interfaces, web services, APIs, or other forms of access points making them a legitimate target for a mobile inter... [download for more]