iPhone: Enterprise Impact
We released our Nemertes Impact Analysis on the new Apple iPhone tonight. You can read it here.
In it, we discuss the potential issues of enterprise usage of iPhones, including such missing pieces as support for Exchange or Notes calendar and contact synchronization, tools for enterprise security and management policy enforcement such as encryption of data on the device, and ability to remote wipe it, and the lack of enterprise-grade support services.
In my opinion, there is a considerable opportunity for Apple to attack the enterprise space, but they continue to put their resources into consumer products (with the exception of niche software focused on media developers, and of course the MacBook Pro), and who can blame them given the relative market sizes.
But I'm still awaiting the day when a large services provider or vendor such as IBM or maybe even Dell steps up to the plate and begins to offer enterprise support services for Apple products such that Apple becomes a serious alternative to the Windows desktop, as well as Windows, RIM, and Palm mobile devices.
iPhone more likely in corporate service bureaus before IT departments
Lots of talk lately about iPhone in the Enterprise, here's a more likely scenario... iPhone in corporate print production and commercial service bureaus for remote proofing and document management.
HELIOS has announced a special focus on proofing with the iPhone. HELIOS WebShare UB+ and the Apple iPhone support easy yet highly secure remote access and previewing of images, layout documents, PDFs, and print jobs for printers, print buyers, ad agencies and sales people. HELIOS is exhibiting at Graph Expo in Chicago (Booth #5432)
DETAILS
http://www.helios.de/news/news07/iPhone.phtml
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http://www.helios.de/news/news07/iPhone.phtml
VIDEO
http://www.helios.de/support/ws_iphone_movie.phtml
Posted by: Bill Gram-Reefer | Sep 06, 2007 at 09:00