Mobile

The question is:  can mobile cross-platform frameworks be all things to all people? Dovetailing nicely into my previous post is an article that examines whether cross-platform mobile hybrid apps can meet both the objectives of time/cost and optimal user-experience. The history of cross-platform application development has been one of mostly failure and is littered with […]

As a digital strategist, part of my job is to keep up with digital trends so that I can paint as clear a picture as possible of how and why consumers are interacting with the latest technology. If you’re familiar with interactive marketing, you probably know that this is an elusive goal. The current digital […]

On the heels of my blog the other day on the topic of iPads, tablets and The New Business Laptop comes an interesting report that only 1 out of 10 tablets sold actually have 3G capability.                         A couple of reasons have been put […]

I recently came across an article from a local newspaper where a man had lost his iPhone and Blackberry. Using a couple of applications, he was able to track his phones to the next block neighbour. Involving the local police, the man went to the neighbor’s house and asked for the phones to be returned […]

I recently started to develop some scorecards in PerformancePoint and deploy them using Mobile Entrée 3.0 version for our sales team to enable demos of Mobile Entrée 3.0. I wanted to show how PerformancePoint scorecards work in Mobile Entrée 3.0 and in particular how you can link scorecards. An earlier post shows some of the features with PerformancePoint […]

It is tough to ignore the drumbeat of good Apple news in the past two weeks. The newly released iPad 3 sold (and that is sold/not shipped) over 3 million units in the space of 4 days.  The stock price briefly flirted with $600.00 (we are talking almost Berkshire Hathaway here) and all the finance […]

The time has come – we as advertisers can no longer “talk about” mobile, instead we must “do mobile.” With mobile internet users expected to exceed desktop users in 2013, advertisers must broaden their horizon and be where their customers are online – no matter what the screen. This is especially true for paid search. […]

IBM announced the availability of v7.0.2 of Mobile Portal Accelerator. Here are some details from IBM. New features: Support for WebSphere Portal V7.0.0.2 Updated Multi-Channel Server V6.3 Support for Media Access Server V6.3 Support for IBM Rational® Application Developer V8.0.4 Has built-in theme that provides an enhanced and consistent multichannel experience with WebSphere Portal Enhanced […]

I can not remember the last time I’ve been in a conversation with a customer about a project that didn’t involve some sort of mobile component.  It’s no surprise that everyone wants mobile and the majority of those people actually need it.  We have found that using iRise, through Enterprise Visualization methodologies, have allowed us […]

I was going through some TDWI material and found what they considered the ‘Best of BI’ in 2011. They mentioned mobile BI as being one of the top. With mobile devices being a key piece of a business today, and Gartner mentioning that by 2013, 33% of BI functionality will be consumed via a mobile […]

I want to discuss how easy it has become to take desktop applications to the floor of HIMSS 2012. Health BI is a comprehensive healthcare analytics solution with over 600 key performance indicators, ONC certification for Meaningful Use and a real-time intelligence engine that reevaluates patient compliance each time the data is refreshed. This was […]

I’ve been thinking about this a while as I look at a variety of company’s create their own mobile apps and then struggle to manage the app itself and how to make a set of apps available on different platforms like Android and iOS.  I have clients who are actively looking at vendor hosted options […]