Interesting article about how the iPad will invade the Enterprise from CIO’s Tom Kaneshige interview with Mort Rosenthal.
Remember all the smug IT guys who scoffed at the iPhone—even forbade users to bring iPhones into work? Yeah, the iPad’s going to give them a jolt too, says Mort Rosenthal, a tech sales vet who says the iPad will be a big hit, coming into enterprises through the front door and back door, much like the iPhone did.
“For the iPad, I am in favor of the game changing scenario,” says Rosenthal, Chairman and CEO of Enterprise Mobile, a systems integration firm. (Rosenthal, a Computer Industry Hall of Fame inductee, is best known for founding Computer Software in 1982, which he grew to $1 billion in sales and merged with a division of R.R. Donnelly.)
[ Is the iPad a game changer? Here's five recent Apple (AAPL) successes that give the iPad an edge, reports CIO.com. ]
Today, Enterprise Mobile focuses on mobility platforms, such as RIM, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android and webOS—and, of course, the iPad when it becomes available. While Rosenthal is bullish on the iPad in the enterprise, he’s also aware of the strain the iPad will put on CIOs and IT managers, particularly in the areas of security, bandwidth and performance.
CIO.com talked with Rosenthal about the early adoption of the iPad in the enterprise.
Read more
Loading ...
