A moving platform

10 February 2012

Supporting business applications on smartphones requires centralised control

First, it was the PC. Then, 20 years later, the BlackBerry. Today, it is the smartphone that is gradually making its way into the enterprise without the IT department’s consent.

The unsanctioned diffusion of consumer hardware into business infrastructure is nothing new, but each wave brings with it peculiar challenges and opportunities.

With their touch screen interfaces, high technical specifications and versatile operating systems, Apple’s iPhone and its ilk give employees access not only to information but also, potentially, to mobile business applications. This has many possible uses but it also creates a new, unfamiliar facet of the... read more...

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