You know the conventional wisdom: if you’re using mobile devices, the best way to secure enterprise application data is some combination of locked-down devices and strong data security measures. However, both IT and users know the truth that comes with these approaches: they ratchet up hidden costs while killing user experience and productivity, all in [...]
We’ve been checking off the various dos & don’t for bringing enterprise applications to iPads and other mobile devices. There are a lot of them. So many that our CTO Stephen Vilke did an entire webcast about the topic (summarized in this white paper). Last week I brought up mobile security. The issue that goes [...]
Our CEO Peter Badger had a chance to play with a Microsoft Surface tablet the day they announced it. As we noted here and on Twitter, he wasn’t impressed. However, that didn’t stop him from buying one and running it through his paces alongside his other tablets here in the Framehawk office “proving ground” (AKA [...]
People turn to vastly different sources to predict the future. A crystal ball. Tea leaves. The Mayan calendar. Industry analysts. Those sorts of things. For IT trends, I like to look at patterns from the past year. It may not be 100% foolproof, but we all know how the predicted Mayan end-of-the-world thing turned out, [...]
The latest in our series of 7 dos & don’ts for bringing enterprise applications to iPads is likely so self-evident – and important – that it probably should have been listed first. The topic is mobile security. No surprise. In fact, not thinking about how to avoid unauthorized access and data breaches would indeed be [...]
The ghost suddenly appeared from behind the bed curtains, rattling the old Ethernet cables dangling from its arms. “Wh-who-who are you?” Scrooge gasped. “I am your old IT guy, Jacob Marley. The one who left to take a job at that hot start-up…” “What are you doing here?” “I’m here to warn you, Scrooge,” the [...]
If there’s one thing that the proliferation of the iPad, Microsoft Surface, and other tablets has proved, it’s that the place people do their work is no longer limited to their physical desktop. That now goes for your computing desktop, too. The mobilization of enterprise applications means metaphors are shifting fast and furiously and IT [...]
Sure, the Framehawk team is working hard on our software, bringing mobility to enterprise applications. What you might not know (without being here in our San Francisco offices) is that we’re also working equally hard on something else at the same time: Our mustaches. Yes, we are once again proudly participating in Movember – the [...]
The pressure for IT to enable enterprise application access for iPads and the like is immediate and immense. The problem with trying to do something fast, however, is it often requires a great deal of that IT budget of yours…which truthfully wasn’t built with many of the costs to mobilize applications in mind. How do [...]
Apple announced exactly what everyone thought they would a few weeks back: the iPad Mini. But what does it mean for the iPad to suddenly have a new little brother on the block? Apple’s marketing materials don’t call it a “shrunken-down iPad,” but rather a “concentrated” version – everything you had before, but in a [...]