Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’

For many, the mobile landscape is fast becoming the ONLY landscape to do business in. As products and services circle the globe, we are leaving our offices for the road “more” traveled. Especially in a sales-oriented business environment, we find that the end users of many of the SharePoint solutions we create for our clients […]

SharePoint 2013 (or “Wave 15” as we unabashed Microsoft fanboys have been calling it) has been in public beta for a little over two weeks now, and we’re starting to see some more discussion of new features and functions around the web.  Our own Microsoft blog is no exception. A number of our customers have […]

SharePoint 2013 has a new component called the Mobile Panel. The purpose of this panel is to enable the content authors to target different content to different device channels or render same content differently based on how the site is accessed. My earlier post on Mobility shows how to setup a device channel and explains […]

Last month I told you about the features Microsoft Dynamics CRM is rolling out as part of the “CRM Q2 2012 Service Update” which will include massive improvements and capabilities around mobility and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  As most of you have heard by now, Microsoft has just announced its newest mobility device the “Surface”, which […]

Microsoft made a big splash with the unveiling of their long-awaited Surface Tablet yesterday.  Never mind the interesting choice of branding (anyone familiar with the previous Microsoft Surface will be surprised they took the name from the world’s coolest cocktail table and applied it to a slate), the big question in our secret mountaintop command […]

Mark Fidelman recently posted an interesting article on Forbes.com titled “Microsoft’s View of the Future Workplace is Brilliant, Here’s Why” in the article Mark shares how he’s visited Microsoft Technology Centers  in the past couple of months and its left him “feeling both energized and alarmed. Energized because I am seeing a dramatic rise in […]

SAP is taking a new approach in the BI space by focusing on innovation as was presented at the recent SAPPHIRE NOW event in Orlando, FL. One of the most promising products, Visual Intelligence, is a desktop tool used to visually explore and manipulate date. Visual Intelligence is a compliment to their recently launched HANA platform […]

Rich Wood and I recently chatted about how Rich is able to use Microsoft technologies on his iPad.  In this video Rich shares how he uses Lync, SharePoint, NewsGator Social Sites, One Note, Bing and more on his iPad to allow him to use it as more than just a consumer or entertainment device.

I was flying back from Dallas the other day and when we landed there was quite a bit of discussion in the row in front of me.  The gentleman in the aisle seat had a Nokia Lumia 900 and his seatmates wanted to see it and hear about it.  I smiled to myself as this […]

IBM recently published a new presentation on their mobile strategy for social businesses.  This presentation is a comprehensive look at the available IBM mobile technologies across their broad spectrum of systems, including WebSphere Portal, Lotus Notes, Domino, IBM Connections, Sametime, Sterling Commerce, Cognos and Coremetrics. IBM has a three prong strategy when it comes to […]

So you’re using NewsGator Social Sites on your SharePoint intranet and you want to stay connected when you’re on the go?  Check out my new video blog on using the iPad app for NewsGator Social Sites.  As NewsGator’s inaugural Partner of the Year (2011), we just might know a little something about this. Oh, and […]

IBM’s new Worklight software is a what we call a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP).  MEAPs allow you to create exciting mobile applications by integrating multiple existing web and service applications.   Using this approach you can easily deploy one integrated application to multiple platforms and multiple device types.  In fact, IBM Worklight allows you […]