Smart Phones

Investing in mobility is like investing in any other important business activity, and its success will largely depend on how closely it is aligned with both business and IT drivers. A successful mobility plan should focus on 'mobilizing' your critical business processes and include planning phases for discovery, development and deployment. This Guide focuses on how to build an effective mobility plan while providing valuable insight into the benefits of mobilizing your business applications.

Unified Communications (UC) integrates multiple communications modalities and adds presence features to allow workers to communicate and collaborate more effectively with co-workers, customers and suppliers. Learn about the cost, productivity and reachability issues associated with increased enterprise mobility and the benefits and future directions of Mobile UC.

As more employees desire to use their personal smartphones for work, IT managers must leverage the opportunity, or risk their organizations missing out on an emerging business trend. It's no longer feasible for an IT department, regardless of company size, to ignore the smartphone push from the majority of the employee population. IT management must attempt to channel the chaos and determine ways to embrace the personal mobility wave while maintaining effective security and management measures, especially in relation to the corporate network. This free whitepaper discusses innovative mobile strategies, new policies, and a fresh approach to allowing smartphones access to corporate resources.

In this business environment, strong authentication-using multiple factors to ensure users are indeed who they claim to be-is vital. As they evaluate the alternatives, many organizations are opting to use SMS authentication, which offers a mix of convenience and security that make it ideally suited to many usage scenarios. Read this white paper to find out more!

This paper compares the strengths and weaknesses of hardware- and software-based authentication approaches, and offers five key considerations for evaluating which approach is right for the specific needs of your organization.

Cell phones and smartphones have become constant companions to influential shoppers. To capitalize on mobility's ubiquity, leading U.S retailers are actively pursuing the mobile channel as a way to enhance customer engagement and loyalty, while giving them "first-mover" advantage over their competitors.

Fast, accurate communications are the underpinnings of patient care and safety. Yet, today's hospital staff carry so many pagers and other devices, it's become cumbersome. With Amcom Mobile Connect, you can simplify communications and strengthen care by using your BlackBerry smartphone for code alerts, patient updates, lab results, consult requests, and much more. In short, everything.

Any IT person with a pulse knows that employees are flooding IT departments with requests to connect their personal smartphones to the company IT infrastructure. Notwithstanding the real productivity benefits from connected employees, until now many IT departments have turned down all such requests as a matter of policy. They calculated that the security and control risks outweighed the benefits from collaboration.

In this webcast, Mike Kirkup tells about BlackBerry application platform which simplifies the development, deployment and management of wireless applications. Leverages the core strengths of the BlackBerry solution to mobilize additional business processes and applications.

The Blackberry Java Development Environment (BlackBerry JDE) is a fully integrated development environment and simulation tool for building Java Micro Edition (Java MET) applications for Java-based Blackberry smartphones.

n this webcast you will learn that Global Positioning System (GPS) is a series of 24 geosynchronous satellites that continually transmits position information.

In this webcast, author Brian Zubert tells about, Java Specification Request (JSR) that means, proposed addition to the Java platform, proposed and reviewed by expert group, public review before JSR finalized, Must be approved by Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee.

In recent years, law firms have enjoyed remarkable financial returns due to a strong global economy, free flowing capital and a high level of demand for legal services. Law firm revenues and profits continued to be strong, even during the dotcom bust, the post 9/11 slowdown and the increasing cost of associate recruitment and retention. This success could be partly explained by the growth imperative in law firms: they must continue to grow, either by acquisition, or by recruiting laterals or associates, because law firm economics correlates size with profits. And many firms grew rapidly in the past several years.

Mobile deployments in business are growing at an accelerating rate, enabled by increasingly capable devices at attractive prices, faster, less costly, and more reliable wireless networks being deployed across wider areas, and an expanding array of mobile applications that empower the mobile workforce with an abundance of business critical functions.

Equipping staff with the right tools can enhance productivity, motivation and staff retention. Highly secure mobile email and data applications help mobile workers stay in touch and up-to-date with a wide range of business issues. Extending that streamlined anytime, anywhere access to mobile voice applications is the next frontier in worker empowerment.

The BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is designed to be a secure, centralized link between an organization's wireless network, communications software, applications, and BlackBerry devices. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express integrates with your organization's existing infrastructure, which can include messaging software, calendar and contact information, wireless Internet and intranet access, and custom applications, to provide BlackBerry device users with mobile access to your organization's resources. You can install the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express on the same server as Microsoft Exchange or Windows Small Business Server, or you can install the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express on a separate server.

The BlackBerry Enterprise Server is designed to be a secure, centralized link between an organization's wireless network, communications software, applications, and BlackBerry devices. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server integrates with your organization's existing infrastructure, which can include messaging and collaboration software, calendar and contact information, wireless Internet and intranet access, and custom applications, to provide BlackBerry device users with mobile access to your organization's resources.

The BlackBerry Enterprise Server is designed to be a secure, centralized link between an organization's wireless network, communications software, applications, and BlackBerry devices. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server integrates with your organization's existing infrastructure, which can include messaging and collaboration software, calendar and contact information, wireless Internet and intranet access, and custom applications, to provide BlackBerry device users with mobile access to your organization's resources.

Incumbered by paper-based workorders and instructions relayed verbally, Cable TV company Videotron needed a solution that helped manage service requests in a way that cut costs, sets it apart from the competition, and showed market leadership.

Mobility is the future of business; more business is conducted in real time and between geographically dispersed situations than ever before. Also, mobility ties closely into important collaboration trends including the increasing use of social networking tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The smartphone- a symbol of an increasingly mobile and interconnected population-is a familiar piece of technology for most employees.

It's no secret: Smartphones are infiltrating the corporate world and making employees more productive. Their use is no longer dictated by IT departments that provision them to executives and salespeople.

With sleek designs and a variety of user-friendly features, smartphones have implanted themselves on the public's consciousness-so much so that one leading industry research firm reports that a record 54.5 million such mobile devices were shipped in the fourth quarter last year. With sales rising nearly 40 percent over the same quarter in 2008, the message is clear: Smartphones are hot, and not just for mobile workers.

Today, many companies are investing in wireless and mobile solutions. Where mobility was once viewed as a risky venture, its value is now understood. These solutions are expected to increase productivity and improve efficiency due to improved field-based access to knowledge within the mobile workforce. In the current competitive climate where companies must compete globally, wireless solutions are no longer about gaining an edge, but about keeping up with the competition.

Individually acquired smartphones - those devices that employees purchase outright or get reimbursed for by the organization - are on the rise.

How Windows Phones Combine Email, Messaging, Voice, and Presence in a Secure, Collaborative Environment. This paper explains why unified communications is essential and why Windows® Phones are ideally suited to serve as the "mobile connection" in a unified communication environment.