Kevin's Mobility News Weekly - September 30, 2010

Kevin's Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market numbers and trends.

SMS, Human Capital Management and Mobile Applications

It is easy to think that high value mobile applications need to be complex and sophisticated, but that is not always the case.  This morning I read about a solution that helps firefighters manage their human resources and schedules by interacting with their staff via SMS.  The solution, called ClickRoster, will automatically create the roster for every fire station and every shift for both full time and part time firefighters, allocating individuals to specific roles based on skill requirements and the Watch Managers’ decisions.

Ventureforth Delivers Mobile Enterprise Solutions for Oracle PeopleSoft Using Syclo's Agentry Platform

Ventureforth, a Syclo Independent Software Vendor, licenses and develops off-the-shelf mobile solutions for Oracle, PeopleSoft and Indus (Ventyx) with the configurable mobile platform architecture from Syclo’s Agentry platform.  This is interesting for two reasons:

What Everyone Wants but Few Have - Mobile SDK

Last week I interviewed the COO of Worklight, Kurt Daniels (see interview later this week) and learned about their strategy to become the leading mobile application platform for smartphones, tablets and beyond.  What makes them unique?  They want to be experts in mobile technologies, Mobile SDKs (software development kits) and platforms, but they don't want to develop mobile applications themselves.  They want to support systems integrators and customers that want to develop their own mobile solutions.

Do SAP and Sybase Recognize What is Happening?

I know many people that work at Sybase in the mobility products area.  They were overworked before the acquisition.  Now they are overworked times 10.  Why?  SAP bought them and enterprise mobility is in big demand today.  SAP customers have been waiting a long time for an SAP direction and roadmap around mobility and now that SAP has a strategy there is a huge backlog of interest.  What does SAP do with this interest?  They call the product folks at Sybase Unwired Platform and request their assistance. 

I don't think the management folks at Sybase yet recognize what the SAP ecosystem is going to do to them.  I work closely with the SAP enterprise mobility ecosystem.  The majority of these companies are going to want to partner with Sybase so they can support SAP's roadmap and strategy.  Read  SAP's Mobility Partners After SAP’s Acquisition of Sybase, Part 1 for more information on this subject.  These companies have their own customer bases and are actively recruiting more business.  This is going to drive a significant amount of new business to Sybase.  It is going to require growth at Sybase.

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