Complexity Kills so Simplify your Mobile Apps Now
Migrate Win32 apps with complex user interfaces to #mobile apps where each screen is focused on a single task or idea.
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Reduce Corporate Risk by Updating your Win32 Apps to Run on Secure Sandboxed Platforms
Migrate those Visual Basic, Delphi, VisualAge, PowerBuilder, SQL Windows, JBuilder and Visual Cafe Win32 applications to secure sandboxed #mobile apps.
Reduce Business Risk by Migrating your Legacy Software to Modern, Secure Platforms and Programming Languages
Businesses drag their feet when mobilizing line of business apps via legacy software migration thinking it’s cheaper to maintain a codebase than to rewrite for #mobile.
Reduce Business Risk by Using Employee Smartphones and Multi-factor Authentication to Secure Corporate Resources
The perception that employee smartphones are a security liability is misplaced. They’re a #mobile, multi-factor authentication security asset.
Reduce Business Expenses by Deploying Mobile Middleware in the Enterprise
#Mobile middleware provides intelligent aggregation of backend business data while reducing duplication of field data entry.
Reduce Corporate Expenses by Mobile-Enabling Existing Business Systems with REST APIs
Mobile-enable backend business systems by wrapping them with REST APIs that speak the same language as any #mobile device, browser or app.
Reduce Business Risk by Utilizing Open Mobile Internet Standards
The #mobile Internet communicates with HTTP(S), follows an architectural style called REST, serializes data as JSON & compresses with GZip and Deflate.
Reduce Business Risks by Creating a Corporate Mobile Center of Excellence
Create a corporate #mobile center of excellence to create processes, establish governance & develop a matrix of supported devices.
Mobile Strategies for Business is Now Available
I’m pleased to announce that my newest book, “Mobile Strategies for Business: 50 Actionable Insights to Digitally Transform Your Business” is now available. #mobile
Tom Hanks Brings a Typewriter to the iPad
Your days of typing into a soulless word processor are at an end now that Tom Hanks has brought the typewriter into the 21st century with his Hanx Writer app to the iPad. I thought I was the only one that missed the feel of my old IBM Selectric typewriter with the golf ball typing element. … Read more
Microsoft Office is Now Available for the iPad
Today we made the highly anticipated move to bring Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the Apple iPad. All three products can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store and used to view existing documents. Via an in-app purchase mechanism, iPad users can unlock the full functionality of the products by subscribing to … Read more
5 Steps to Containerize your Enterprise Mobile Apps
Just in case you haven’t noticed lately, the BYOD Juggernaut appears to be stumbling in the security department. It’s time to get your mobile enterprise house in order and containerize your apps to create islands of security on potentially insecure mobile devices. We’ve seen buggy mobile operating system updates that allow users to bypass lock screens, … Read more
Submarine Warriors: The Enemy Beneath is now Available in Paperback on Amazon
I’m thrilled to announce my exciting new underwater adventure #novel for middle-grade and young adult readers is now available in paperback!
Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP: iPhone + iPad > Cloud
In my ‘Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP’ article last week, I described how to connect iPhones and iPads to Microsoft’s On-Premise infrastructure. In this week’s scenario, I’ll use the picture below to illustrate how iOS utilizes many of Gartner’s Mobile Enterprise Application Platform Critical Capabilities to connect to Microsoft’s Cloud services in Azure: As … Read more
Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP: iPhone + iPad > On-Premises
In my last ‘Consumerization of IT Collides with MEAP’ article, I described how to connect a Windows Phone device to Microsoft’s Cloud servers in Azure. By now you’re probably thinking, “It’s easy to talk about Microsoft endpoints talking to Microsoft servers.” So in this week’s scenario, I’ll use the picture below to illustrate how iOS … Read more