iPad: new opportunity for unified communication

In addition to the leading smartphones, the "Unified Communications Solution" must support the leading tablets, including the Apple iPad, Android equivalents such as Samsung Galaxy, and business tablet. This support allows to offer a “best-of-both-worlds” combination of personal user device choice together with an optimized collaboration experience, increasing the chances of adoption and compliance as well as productivity for the business.

The advent of user-accessible application stores that accompanied these consumer devices has also challenged IT, which has typically used controlled or “standard-image” provisioning. Once again, rather than blocking progress it is possible to accommodate this new model by allowing users to access a secure, custom “enterprise app store” to download approved applications on a personalized basis, while limiting access to other applications that may increase risk.

Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft and other big vendors are already at the forefront in offering solutions and apps for unified communications.

But communications are increasingly driven by services offered by Skype or Google, and it may be difficult to support business investment.

Business Intelligence on iPad

Gartner predicts that by 2013, 33% of business intelligence functionality will be consumed on mobile devices. And it seems Gartner's forecast is a bit too modest. BI going mobile quickly, and tablets are leading that movement.

They generate added value and immediate benefits to the users allowing data analysis on mobile devices, in particular iPad. The business intelligence applications have long been recognized by companies as an important business tools, but the iPad revolution and the explosion of mobile workers has made them strategic and critical.

Usually the Business Intelligence Mobile is provided as an add-on module to the standard applications in use. The leading provider of BI solutions have a version or module for the Mobile but you can also look for new applications on the store vendors.

To date, despite the high interest around this type of applications for the mobile, the limitations are still plentiful. For example, many applications allow the visualization of data, but not their handling.

How to deploy tablets in the enterprise

Apple has introduced a volume purchasing plan and given enterprises the basic features for deploying applications. Instead, most machines enter the corporate world through a Bring Your Own Device or "BYOD" policy.

One of the big concerns with BYOD is that these devices now mix business and personal data, raising significant privacy concerns. 

Tablet integration is possibly the biggest issue facing the world’s leading organizations. As executives use their iPads and other tablets for business, how will organizations approach this issue?

Organizations at a staggering rate are incorporating tablet computing into their work processes.  Which apps doues your corporation need to bring on board?

The most important thing you can do with a tablet is use the device and the applications to transform the business, providing immersive end-customer and employee experiences.

CIOs and enterprise consumers will hopefully elevate the iPad from a high-potential, experimental device to a fully integrated and supported enterprise tool