News Archive for September, 2007

I stepped into this session a little late, but got a number of good insights:

1. First thing I heard about was the importance of “automated mobile event tracking” – basically time capture on mobile devices to capture all those little things done on the fly. Legal55 was mentioned specifically as a solution to the time capture problem on mobile devices.
2. A second application I heard a great deal about was unified messaging, which after many years of promise is coming into its own. “Click to call” was mentioned as one immediately-useful application that Blackberries and the like are in a good position for. (I have this on my PDA too, and can confirm that C2C is very useful).
3. 75% of firms are providing both the plan and the device, partially to keep a lid on potentially burgeoning support issues from allowing a diversity of devices. iPhones were particularly mentioned as being dangerous, because they do not have a secure gateway to the server (they use IMAP, which is not secure). There was mention of possible Goodlink connectivity for the Apple device, which might solve that particular problem.
4. The next frontier? Moving more desktop applications to the mobile device to increase productivity on the road.