Paul Lee

The good news is mobile data has gotten a foot in the door at the majority of the largest enterprises in the U.S. The challenge is to convert what are often initial and departmental assignments into large-scale, company-wide deployments. This requires a level of coordination between myriad parties that haven't worked well together to deliver meaningful and profitable mobile data solutions. Enterprises recognize the logic for deploying mobile data. Like e-mail, mobile voice, and broadband, mobile data can deliver significant benefits by making information move more productively within a business ecosystem of employees, suppliers, and clients. In early 2000, however, when many enterprises first began to demand mobile-enabled services, supply wasn't ready. Packet-switched networks weren't installed. Devices were inappropriate. Business software was still designed pre... (more)