Comments on: Enterprise Mobility Hits the Mainstream http://www.ipass.com/blog/enterprise-mobility-hits-the-mainstream/ Providing best practices, insight and updates on Enterprise Mobility, helping companies better manage mobile device connections security and costs. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:17:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Peter Taglia http://www.ipass.com/blog/enterprise-mobility-hits-the-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-1767 Peter Taglia Thu, 27 May 2010 04:32:15 +0000 http://www3.ipass.com/?p=6333#comment-1767 (I led product strategy at Oracle for wireless and mobile applications and prior to that I was a VP at Sybase.)

Sybase built a $200MM+ business around mobility – that’s rare! For most managers, it is very difficult to justify investment for mobility even at companies like SAP and Oracle. With SAP’s bold (and desparate) move and today’s integration of workstyle and lifestyle, mobility is now “table stakes” for enterprise software and it will become a feature versus a separate smokestack that must be jusified on it’s own. What I loved most was that Sybase built an important application for the B2B enterprise productivity segment versus the B2C convenience segment that gets so much attention these days. To me – that’s a tipping point.

It is great news for the Mobility Industry because it puts a high value on mobility as part of the overall go-to-market value statement for enterprise computing. It is also great news for ISV’s that are working to simplify mobility for IT while providing all of its benefits for user productivity and collaboration – companies like iPass, Antenna Software and Rearden Commerce. SAP admitted that mobility was too hard even for itself and bought specific expertise (along with great database, development tools and integration technology).

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