Over the past decade, many industries have been completely reshaped by digital innovation. Shopping, media consumption, and personal banking are just a few activities that have undergone revolutionary advancements, yet these seismic shifts have hardly been seen in healthcare; that’s all about to change. The next decade will prove to be the era of digital […]
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Connect Mobile Apps Using WebSphere Cast Iron and IBM Worklight
In this 7-minute demo, you will learn how to easily create a mobile app through using an orchestration created in WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration and then calling it in IBM Worklight using the cast iron adapter type. WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration and IBM Worklight can empower you to build and […]
Is there a pressing need for mobile commercial payments?
Is There A Pressing Need for Mobile Commercial Payments? From a consumer perspective, I wholeheartedly believe mobile is a necessary service channel. I am all about mobile, but we are not hearing a pressing need from the wholesale banking community to provide a commercial payments framework on the mobile platform. Outside of commercial cards and […]
Mobile Security Reference Architecture
Just recently, the Federal Government handed out a gift (how often can you say that?) to the mobile community. As part of the new open digital government initiative, the Federal CIO Council and Department of Homeland Security have published the Mobile Security Reference Architecture. It is a comprehensive picture of the minimal security controls necessary […]
Using Fiddler to troubleshoot Lync Mobile Client
Troubleshooting and reading the logs on the Lync Mobile client is in my opinion, very cumbersome. I find myself staring at the logs trying to decipher the cryptic messages, reformatting the text in notepad, scrolling to left and right repeatedly,… well, you get the idea, it simply isn’t any fun. I was recently challenged with […]
Are Tablets Truly Mobile Devices?
No, I am not trying to make a Thorsten Heins-like splash (the BlackBerry CEO who recently stated that “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.”). If you pose the above question in one of those Jay Lenoesque “Jaywalking – Man on the Street” episodes, the response would […]
The Mobile Workspace – Connect, Share, Collaborate and Collide
The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2013 provided an intriguing panel discussion called “The Mobile Workspace – Connect, Share, Collaborate and Collide.” The attendees included Ken Parmelee – mobile and wireless, Karen Hobert – security and risk strategy consultant, Mike Gotta – social software analyst and Daryl Plummer of Gartner. The discussion was lively […]
Ten Mobile Apps that are Changing the World
The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2013 had a great session delivered by Ian Finely called “Ten Mobile Apps that are Changing the World.” The session delibertly skips the common known apps such as Facebook and Twitter. Here is the list – only 9 apps were presented but some were categories of apps: The […]
IBM advances in mobile and DevOps with UrbanCode acquisition
IBM has acquired software deployment automation software firm, UrbanCode. Any company that requires frequent software updates, such as those in social, mobile, cloud and business analytics, will benefit. CRN covered this story in an article this week, for which they interviewed Vishal Rajpal, general manager of IBM BPMS at Perficient. Vishal weighed in: “Consumers are rapidly becoming a […]
Linking to Mobile Consumers Through APIs
The recent purchase of Mashery by Intel and Layer 7 by Computer Associates highlights the importance that APIs (Application Programming Interface) have become in exposing internal corporate services to mobile developers, both corporate and outside. Corporations are beginning to understand that one of the keys to users interacting with their services is through mobile and […]