Posts Tagged ‘mobility’

There is no denying that mobility is currently a hot topic. Staggering forecasts by various analysts have made capitalizing on the mobile applications market a top priority for many organizations’ CIOs and CTOs. However, before diving headfirst into mobility projects, it is important to consider various factors in order to define a clear strategy that […]

If you’re looking to support iPhone on a SharePoint 2010 site that is configured to use an external identity provider like Ping Federate, ADFS 2.0, or a custom STS, you will likely run into this issue. However, you may notice everything works just fine with iPad. Fortunately, the issue can be reproduced on the desktop […]

It is almost impossible to have a conversation about Business Intelligence these days without talking about mobility. Mobile internet and data consumption is growing rapidly and it doesn’t look like that is going to change any time soon. There are many mobility options to choose from but not all of them work on all mobile […]

You’ve all probably heard of Verizon.  Supporting 94 million customers presents quite a challenge. They are at IBM’s Impact conference talking about what they’ve done.  They had quite the crew ranging from the architects to the developers. Verizon wireless manages their own development, their own network, and their own systems.  That gives Verizon unique access […]

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, […]

Mobile BI is gaining a lot of attention with the huge increase in the demand for mobile devices. This topic routinely comes up in conversations with our customers as they (along with everyone else) want to be able to receive the same analytics and user experience they interact with on their desktop/laptop on their smart […]

There are a few options for disabling the SharePoint Mobile Redirection System. Disabling the system means that browsers will not be redirected to a mobile version of the site created by SharePoint by default. This is not about how to customize the mobile view that only mobile devices would see. Modify the webconfig file Add […]

At the jQuery conference in Boston (Oct 16th) John Resig announced that jQuery Mobile (Alpha) was released. I would say Mobile was the teams main focus during the conference. Some other main topics that were covered in the presentations were Testing, and Code Organization. At a high level, jQuery mobile is a UI Framework that […]

I’m going to show a couple of free iPhone apps that access SharePoint 2010. The first SharePoint iPhone Client is Moshare from Moprise (green theme) and the second is iShare from Spyk Software (orange theme). Let’s see how they stack up. First take a look at the launch icons. I’m not sure what the Moshare […]

OK, this is really focusing on ECM and I blog about Portal & Collaboration.  But really, when you are in the portal world, you have to integrate to everyone and everything.  Besides, everything this article says about ECM has some applicability to a mobile portal. Mobile: The Next Frontier for Enterprise Content Management The winning […]

As an IT manager for an organization, can you imagine having to support 15,000 wireless users in 400 locations for your company? Can you imagine that it might get a little tough to provide an adequate level of support to all 15,000 users? Think about how quickly technology — platforms, screen resolutions, apps, memory size, […]