Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’

This past Thursday, I attended a Mobile Meetup hosted by Solstice Consulting and I felt it was very engaging and interactive. Many topics were covered ranging from mobile UX/UI to cross-platform development to marketing an application. The meetup was run in an Open Space Technology format. This enabled there to be many topics discussed in […]

Everyone agrees that taking business intelligence mobile adds flexibility and versatility to access to information. On the road or out in the field, access to data and analytics is increasingly mobile, and for good reason. Access to business data on the fly is making us more efficient and helping us make decisions faster and more […]

I recently found a new app called iWildFire on Apple’s AppStore.  iWildFire brings IBM Connections down to your iPad or iPhone as a native application.  The application was released on June 3, 2011 and is already getting good reviews.  Here is a link to the iWildFire page on iTunes.  iWildFire provides access to Connections Home […]

In Q3, IBM will be shipping their Portal 7 Mobile theme (insert applause).  This powerful theme takes advantage of the almost-ubiquitous used mobile web-kit.  This compliments IBM’s Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA) which provides a much broader solution for multiple mobile device support.  The Mobile Theme provides a lightweight toolkit for extending portals to Android, iPhone […]

Jonathan Booth, an Architect who develops the Portlet Factory development tool at IBM, presented on how you can use Portlet Factory to create Mobile Applications.  I’m not going to blog the entire presentation but instead give some highlights and key bits of information on what and how they use it. My first impressions are that […]

BCBSF in many ways is the epitomy of a great web experience.  They have created a variety of valuable online tools that can be found via web sites, internally, and on mobile sites.  Lisa Crawford of BCBSF and Glenn Kline of Perficient went through how they maximize ROI at BCBSF. Where they were in 2008: […]

I attended an excellent session called Extending your IBM Portal Exceptional Web Experience to iPhone, Android, and Blackberry Devices at the excellent web experience conference.  This presentation focused on delivering rich web site to specific mobile devices and some of the alternative approaches for accomplishing this with portal.  The main focus was on using custom […]

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, my first tech employer, posted an interview with Tom Conophy of the InterContinental Hotels Group.  It’s probably the best post I’ve read this year about the evolution of their mobile strategy and how they changed their culture to handle it.  It’s worth reading the entire post but here are a couple excerpts: Then the […]

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, my first tech employer, posted an interview with Tom Conophy of the InterContinental Hotels Group.  It’s probably the best post I’ve read this year about the evolution of their mobile strategy and how they changed their culture to handle it.  It’s worth reading the entire post but here are a couple excerpts: Then the […]

By way of Tony Karre who emailed me about it comes this article in Beta News by Joe Wilcox.  It’s a really good article with lots of IDC and Nielsen data laying out what’s been happening with smartphones and market share over the last year.  He also notes a skew against Android by these IDC […]

You see a lot of employees bringing their own devices into the enterprise.   This can be both good and bad. Ken Dulaney and Leslie Fiering talk about what you need to address if you allow employee owned devices in. Prediction: Although 80% of enterprises will have employee owned devices connected to compamy networks by 2015, […]

Gary Dolsen of IBM and David Yoo of Kaiser Permanente spoke about social business and great web experiences. I will admit to being biased because Kaiser is my client and we’ve worked hard on helping them create a great portal platform for kaiserpermanente.org Gary Dolsen 95% of standout organizations will focus more on getting closer […]