Much quicker than anticipated smartphone shipments today already exceed personal computer shipments. The astonishing rate at which new mobile devices emerge and their widespread private use is the major force behind the recent consumerization of IT: the migration of consumer devices into enterprise computing. More and more employees are bringing their personal devices to the workplace.

While mobility increases employee productivity, corporate IT management is facing new and […]

The final law of good mobile software design is perhaps the most obvious and least practiced: mobilizing 10 percent of an existing application should take no more than 10 percent of the time it took to configure the parent app. Mobile applications must add by subtraction, and part of adding is making sure what is extracted can be used without significant rework. For example, large menus should not need to be recreated for handhelds — […]

A key benefit of implementing a mobile solution is that the business remains buffered from the complexities of wireless security, data transmission, billing, and device management. This is increasingly critical as devices, networks, and user requirements proliferate. We are already faced with a staggering set of choices when doing simple tasks, such as activating phones, selecting service plans, and procuring and provisioning new devices.

Those will continue to be complicated decisions, but they’ll pale […]