Kevin Benedict is a TCS futurist and lecturer focused on the signals and foresight that emerge as society, geopolitics, economies, science, technology, environment, and philosophy converge.
Have you ever wished that you didn't get so many emails? If email wasn't used, then how would you communicate? In this interview with mobility expert Florian Ganz, he describes how his company transitioned to an email-less company. Grab some popcorn!
Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
Forgive me for the opening section of this video. My fantasy life has spilled over.
This is Part 2 of my interview with SAP's Director of Product Management, Mobile Security, James Naftel. In this interview we discuss what to expect in 2013 from SAP's Afaria, and current pricing models that SAP is offering for this MDM solution. Grab some popcorn!
Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
If you are interested in learning more about mobile device management and mobile security this short video is for you. I filmed this in Barcelona, Spain at the Mobile World Congress 2013. The first minute is a bit blurry, but then clears up. My iPhone must not have been paying attention to where I was filming. In this interview Ron Hassanwalia from www.Soti.net explains many features in an MDM. Grab some popcorn!
Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
In this interview recorded in Barcelona, Spain, I ask about SAP's answer to Dropbox - SAP Mobile Documents. James Naftel, Director of Product Management, Mobile Security, explains how it works and why it is an interesting new development. Grab the popcorn!
Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
In this interview I ask Antenna Software's Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Jim Somers about the trends he is seeing around enterprise mobility in 2013. Grab the popcorn!
Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
It was interesting how much of the Mobile World Congress this year was about M2M and the Internet of Things. I guess it makes sense from a teleco perspective, mobile data is mobile data, whether it comes from a mobile app on a smartphone or a piece of heavy equipment wirelessly reporting its maintenance needs.
I have often written over the years that M2M and enterprise mobility would eventually converge. This year they certainly did at the MWC 2013 event. Mobile data coming in from remote workers and assets is all valuable to the enterprise. With the right business analytics solution your managers can use this real-time data to make good data driven decisions.
At the show, SAP connected their M2M initiative with their Hana platform to deliver real-time analytics to the Port of Hamburg in Germany. The demonstration was in the Connected City at the show. The solution was used to track incoming cargo containers, truck parking spaces and truck locations. The M2M data coming in wirelessly from these three areas was analyzed in seconds and used to improve efficiencies in the logistical processes.
In this short video, I interview SAP partner ILS Technology about where they see growth in the M2M industry. Grab some popcorn!
Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
Day Two of the Mobile World Congress 2013, and also Wrinkle Tuesday. My hotel does not have irons or ironing boards and it was on the MWC 2013 recommended list...ugh.
Here are some notes from my observations and discussions on Day 2:
SAP Mobile Documents - this is an internally developed solution that acts like a secure Dropbox, but able to be central managed by IT. Very useful!
SAP is discussing M2M and/or The Internet of Things in at least two different locations here. They have a demo in the Connected City, and a demo of a smart vending machine in their booth.
Dropbox is also showing off an enterprise version. You can now switch between a personal Dropbox and your enterprise version (secured and managed by your IT).
SAP has developed several very interesting mobile B2C apps with deep social engagement models built in. I love it. One for sports teams and the other involving fashions and clothing.
Firefox showing off their new mobile phones.
SAP announced an M2M partnership with Ericsson.
I attended the Mobile Premier Apps awards session last night. Several dozen start-ups were judged by different expert panels for viability and awards. There are many very clever developers out there. My favorite was BlindSquare. A location based solution with audio information for the blind.
Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
Yesterday was the first day of the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. It is reported there are 70,000 people here. I counted 69,901. I explored miles of aisles filled with mobile and wireless software vendors, equipment, accessories and devices manufacturers over 8 massive halls.
I have been tracking down mobility experts to interview. I tried to upload some of the interviews yesterday, but my hotel wireless appeared just enough to tease me before disappearing again.
Today I will be speaking at the Power of Enterprise Mobility session in Hall 8. There are seats for 250, but over 2,000 registered for it. Yikes!
Here is the first of many interviews I recorded with experts in mobility and M2M. This interview is with M2M / Internet of Things guru and Fred Yentz, CEO of ILS Technology.
Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
I came across this quote from Thomas Jefferson recently that I found interesting, "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessoning mine; as he who lights his candle at mine, receives light without darkening me. Ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition...this [capability] seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them."
Thomas Jefferson was ruminating about collaboration - mobile and global collaboration. He was sharing his belief that good ideas should be shared widely for the benefit of all. Allowing your best and brightest minds, no matter their geographical location, to contribute their good ideas using mobile and collaboration technologies is a system, as Jefferson worded it, "benevolently designed by nature."
If you are the software designer of the collaboration platform, you may desire more credit than Jefferson bestowed, but you are in fact, part of nature:-)
Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.
