We've always known that mobile computing was under-appreciated, required too many steps, and didn't connect - the way it should - to the enterprise. Now the rest of the world has begun to take notice, including InformationWeek, the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), and online publications. Before the first of those articles appeared (and because our smartphone partners had been adding features that were more laptop-like), we'd sent out an email titled "The Smartphone That Ate Your Laptop" which got really high open and click-through rates.
Of course, certain things have changed since we started. PDAs are now smartphones. Web browsing on a mobile device is much faster and, depending on the operating system, easier. And software developers have created mobile versions of their enterprise applications.
IT departments, which had pretty effectively resisted creating mobile versions of anything, now have a wide range of software development kits (SDKs) and integrated development environments (IDEs) that they can use in the weeks-to-months-long process of creating mobile apps for software that doesn't offer mobile versions. Somebody missed the point.
If you're going to be truly mobile, you have to be truly agile. Yet, by the time a new mobile app is created in-house, the whole world can change - just look at the economy in the last three months. So, from the start, Webalo has avoided programming and coding. If you need access to an enterprise application - just the data or its core functionality - you can get it today and, if you want, you can get it without any IT involvement (because you don't need an SDK or IDE or programming skill).
Of course, certain things have changed since we started. PDAs are now smartphones. Web browsing on a mobile device is much faster and, depending on the operating system, easier. And software developers have created mobile versions of their enterprise applications.
IT departments, which had pretty effectively resisted creating mobile versions of anything, now have a wide range of software development kits (SDKs) and integrated development environments (IDEs) that they can use in the weeks-to-months-long process of creating mobile apps for software that doesn't offer mobile versions. Somebody missed the point.
If you're going to be truly mobile, you have to be truly agile. Yet, by the time a new mobile app is created in-house, the whole world can change - just look at the economy in the last three months. So, from the start, Webalo has avoided programming and coding. If you need access to an enterprise application - just the data or its core functionality - you can get it today and, if you want, you can get it without any IT involvement (because you don't need an SDK or IDE or programming skill).
So now that the world knows that the smartphone has potential - that it might replace a lot of what a laptop does (and replace the extra cost of hardware, peripherals, connectivity services, etc.) - we've been waiting. Waiting to transform enterprise applications for use on your mobile device. Waiting to mashup any combination of data and services. And waiting for all those writers at InformationWeek, the Journal, and online to remove all those limitations that they note in their articles because we can solve most of them.
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