The Mobile Enterprise

Posted by Sean Lew on Tuesday, 3 June, 2008 under Enterprise 2.0, General Ranting, IT strategy |

With globalisation of companies and more employees traveling around more often, Enterprise 2.0 and its social collaborative applications surely help keep everyone connect and up-to-date with latest news, team members, documents and almost everything that matters (corporate applications) and thats online. All that is required is a laptop and internet connection. Nothing quite wrong with this in some industries like consulting or IT where computing power is important (alot of generalisation here!).

However, for some sales people in various industries, they use alot of hand held devices like Palm or BlackBerry and do need to access corporate applications to get their daily work done faster, more accurate and more responsive to growing customer demands. Gone where days where an insurance agent can say, “let me work out the sums and get back to you in three days”. Customers want in now and want it right.

We are living in a world where we want information on demand. Corporate applications must be able to deliver all the desktop applications to your little phone and conduct transactions securely, quickly and accurately. I do foresee the future of enterprise 2.0 to move towards mobile computing. Maybe in future, there might be a new term called social mobile computing? Or should it be called Mobile social computing??

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