Today, we caused a little stir of our own at WES, announcing that Actuate and Xactly would be using Webalo's Mobile Dashboard to create mobile versions of their applications. Actuate has actually been using Webalo technology for the past year, but now they've automated the enterprise to mobile process even more (using Webalo) and are acting as a reseller of the Mobile Dashboard to their 4000 customers.
Xactly's software lets sales people keep track of their performance (actual versus plan, commissions, etc.), and the Mobile Dashboard will let those same sales people access their performance information on their handhelds.
It's a direction that's in keeping with research findings from the Yankee Group's "Most Important IT Strategies" survey. The researchers found that 41% wanted wireless access to enterprise applications. The same survey found that the same percentage of workers -- 41% -- can be considered mobile and that the current 300 million handhelds in use will double by 2011. (Sorry there's no link; it's accessible by subscription only.)
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