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SAP has put together an enterprise mobility webinar series that I look forward to watching.  For the first webinar they have lined up an interesting line up consisting of SAP, Sybase, Aberdeen and SAP customer Tellabs:

• Praveen Gautam, Director, Enterprise Technical Services, Tellabs
• Kathy Murino, Director Information Technology SAP Applications, Tellabs
• Andrew Borg, Sr. Research Analyst, Wireless & Mobility, Aberdeen Group
• Dan Ortega, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Sybase, an SAP Company

This is a joint effort by both SCN (SAP Community Network) and the SAP EcoHub.  I am anxious to learn about actual customer implementations, so am excited about the role Tellabs will play in this webinar.  I spent some time with the folks from Tellabs in Santa Clara, California at the SAP Influencer Summit in December.  Here are some of the notes I took at that time:

• Tellabs CIO thinks soon all apps will first be developed mobile, and then a subset converted to desktop.
• Tellabs says mobile apps will have a short lifecycle. Don't plan for longterm mobile apps, they change too fast.
• Tellabs has an ethics policy that mobile app users sign before they use personal devices for work. 
• Tellabs says the IT department was the biggest obstacle. They didn't want to give up command and control and give mobile access early on. 
• Tellabs promotes bring your own mobile device to work. Security is installed, a contract signed - personal devices are used.

In this upcoming webinar the topics will be:

• How best-in-class companies deal with the challenges of enterprise mobility management, including the tablet invasion, employee-liable devices, multiple platforms, and security and compliance issues.
• How SAP’s offerings can help you "unwire your enterprise" and accelerate your business.
• How Tellabs, an SAP customer, is using the Sybase Unwired Platform and SAP Mobile Workflow to deploy innovative enterprise applications on mobile devices, such as the iPad, to improve the productivity of its employees.
  
  
  

Join us for the first one-hour interactive webcast in the series on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 12:00 p.m. EDT/6:00 p.m. CET. Register Here!

 
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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile and M2M Industry Analyst, SAP Mentor Volunteer
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Mobile Expert Interview Series: SAP's Usman Sheikh, December 2010

SAP's EcoHub is SAP's online market for certified partners' solutions.  If you want to know what's new in the SAP ecosystem, EcoHub is the first place to visit.  I wanted to learn what was new in the category of enterprise mobility on EcoHub, so I called up my friend Usman Sheikh, vice president of SAP's EcoHub.  He was kind enough to answer a few questions and share his thoughts with us.

Kevin:  Usman, you have a great vantage point as vice president of EcoHub.  You get to see what your certified partners are doing.  What is new at EcoHub?

Usman:  Here are some interesting EcoHub facts.  15 percent of all EcoHub solutions are mobile.  When we headline with mobility our EcoHub web traffic doubles.  We get 30-40 percent more sales leads for mobile solutions than other solution categories.  Twenty-five percent of leads that come into EcoHub are the result of social media marketing campaigns.

Kevin:  What does EcoHub do for mobile application vendors?