Today's Top Stories Apple's enterprise offerings with iOS 7 are "not terribly innovative" compared with services currently offered by enterprise mobility management firms, opening the enterprise door to Microsoft and its Windows Phone platform, judges ABI Research senior analyst Jason McNicol. The new iOS 7 enterprise features include volume purchase program control, open-in management, managed applications, single sign-on capability, per app virtual private network and enhanced enterprise mobility management vendor functionality. "Despite the positive market buzz, iOS 7 enterprise features are unlikely to increase its enterprise presence. Plenty of market opportunity remains, especially for a company like Microsoft," McNicol writes. "When looking at adoption trends in specific regions, we see areas where Windows Phone stands to gain significantly. For example, Windows Phone consumer adoption has been very strong in Europe. As demonstrated by the Apple and Android platforms, a growing base of consumers is a key driver for expansion into the enterprise," McNicol adds. According to ABI's market forecast, Apple iPhone subscribers will maintain 18 percent market penetration in the smartphone market for the "foreseeable future," while Microsoft should see market penetration increase up to 6 percent by 2018. "Surprisingly, there are quite a few similarities between Apple and Microsoft allowing for a good comparison of the two platforms. While Apple has a significant lead over Microsoft, Microsoft is learning from Apple. If Microsoft keeps its promises for enterprise features expansion, we expect it to gain market share among mobile business customers," observes Dan Shey, ABI's practice director. In addition, Windows Phone is becoming a more popular platform for mobile app developers, with one-third of 1,600 mobile app developers surveyed by Strategy Analytics saying they would support Windows Phone next year, up from only 16 percent this year. The development of more enterprise mobile apps should make the platform more attractive to enterprise users. For more:
- see ABI's release Related Articles:
Windows Phone gets some respect
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Mobile business intelligence (BI) is the fastest growing BI capability, yet the one with the lowest satisfaction rate among BI customers surveyed by research firm Gartner. Gartner defines mobile BI as enabling enterprises "to deliver analytic content to mobile devices in a publishing and/or interactive mode, and takes advantage of the mobile client's location awareness." The use of mobile BI increased a healthy 42 percent year-over-year in 2013, but the satisfaction rate was 7.8 points, last among the 15 BI capabilities covered in the survey of 1,648 customers. Gartner says it introduced mobile BI as a new BI platform capability in the 2012 survey, when it was used only 4.4 percent of the time on average. That number soared to 30 percent usage in this year's survey. The top three magic quadrant vendors in terms of mobile BI satisfaction rating were Logi Analytics, Targit and Panorama Necto. The top three non-magic quadrant vendors were Kofax (Altosoft), Yellowfin and Inetsoft, according to Gartner. The research firm explains that "web-based dashboards and those delivered to mobile devices offer intuitive displays of information, including dials, gauges and traffic lights and can support near-real-time alerts from operational data sources. The use of dashboards to expand analytics to a broader range of users continues to be a high area of usage growth." Overall, BI platforms "serve information delivery and analysis needs well, with reporting, ad hoc analysis, dashboards and interactive visualization providing the most used and most satisfactory capabilities," the report notes. For more:
- check out the Gartner BI survey (reg. req.) Related Articles:
Mobile BI set to take off in the enterprise, says Forrester
Gartner: Microsoft, Oracle lag in mobile business intelligence offerings Read more about: Gartner
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To accommodate the network demands of its BYOD program, the University of Findlay deploys a unified wired and wireless access network based on Aruba Networks' mobile virtual enterprise architecture. In addition, the new network enables its faculty to integrate multimedia technologies into classrooms and instructional materials, Aruba explains in a release. "Wireless is the connectivity of choice on campus," says Tim Stuart, manager of network operations at the University of Findlay, a private university based in Findlay, Ohio. "It's used exclusively in our classrooms, and 97 percent of our students are connecting wirelessly in our dorms. With our students bringing an average of three to four wireless devices each on campus for communication, entertainment and academic purposes, it was important that the network could support their needs. In addition, we wanted to ensure that our faculty could use the network and these mobile devices to enhance student learning in and out of the classroom," Stuart adds. Students and faculty use the Aruba infrastructure to access the school's Blackboard learning management system and to work together at various on-campus and off-campus locations. In the classroom, business students can witness real-time trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Students in the arts programs can view exhibits or performances remotely, and students in the health professional programs can read case studies from their mobile devices. Aruba's ClearPass mobile access management product enables the IT department to onboard mobile devices to the network in a secure environment. "ClearPass is critical for validating devices and users so that we can ensure secure access across campus for all of our students, faculty, staff and guests. It is a huge part of our security strategy today, and it offers the flexibility we'll need as we grow and expand our network," notes Stuart. For more:
- see Aruba's release Related Articles:
BYOD stresses enterprise Wi-Fi networks, spurs gear deployment
Cisco widens leads over Aruba in enterprise Wi-Fi market Read more about: BYOD
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