Enterprise Mobility Solutions

It is an exciting time of investment in enterprise mobility sector with even the most cautious of organizations making sound investments with a real ROI. Budgets are growing rapidly across all vertical sectors as mobility is of highest importance in all regions globally.

The key analyses which surround enterprise mobility are the impact of mobility on IT Infrastructure, operations and architectures, the transformation of a business and reaching benefits through mobility as well as rethinking the organization to gain better results and cost efficiency.   We are now reaching enterprise mobility full throttle, through technology integration, business transformation and enabling ubiquitous users.

This Quarter will see an even superior increase of data as companies look to unlock their boundaries to connect partners, suppliers and customers. More than ever, companies will need to keep track of where their data resides and then develop a strategy to safeguard it. They will also need to protect every end point, application, user and device connected to their networks as well as verify that those connecting to their networks are authorized users. This task will require considerable expertise, especially on a global basis.

 

Sub Sections

• Enterprise Mobility Security
• Enterprise Mobility Hardware
• Enterprise Mobility Software
• Enterprise Mobility Management
• WLAN
• WAN Application Delivery
• Wi-Fi Integration
• Service Providers

 

 Top Ten Companies

• Orange – Dr. Helmut Reisinger senior vice president, Europe - OBS
• Nokia - John Clarke, CIO
• Blackberry - Charles Meyer, Director and Vice President, Europe, Blackberry Pearl
• Cisco- Clive Sawkins UK MD,
• Palm- Roy Bedlow  VP Europe - Palm Treo 750v  (new product in June)
• Trapeze smart mobile - Jim Vogt, president and chief executive office
• Meru Networks - Ihab Abu-Hakima - President and Chief Executive Officer
• Sprint Ahead - Richard T.C Lefave . CIO
• Credant Technologies - Bob Heard CEO Mobile  Guardian
• Sybase - Terry Stepien, President, Sybase iAnywhere

 

Hot Trends

• Justification of budget to spend on enterprise mobility.
• Smart phones and Managed Mobility
• Make your WAN work like a LAN
• Evaluating the opportunities via Fixed-Mobile Convergence.
• The development of long term enterprise mobility strategies.
• Rapid business transformation to achieve growth through enterprise mobility.
• Don’t get left behind in the enterprise mobility mainstream drive.
• Consumerization and preparing for the impact.
• Wireless Internet drives enterprise mobility

Top End Users

• David Lister, CIO, Reuters
• Neil Cameron, CIO, Unilever
• Colin Cobain, Group IT director, Tesco
• Paul Coby, CIO, British Airways
• Colin Cobain, Group IT director, Tesco
• Neil Cameron, CIO, Unilever
• Nigel Underwood, CIO, DHL Logistics
• David Lister, CIO, Reuters
• Peter Sany , CIO, Deutsche Bank
• Robin Dargue, CIO and business process director, Diageo
• Simon Post, CTO, Carphone Warehouse
• Darin Brumby, CIO, FirstGroup
• JP Rangaswami, CIO, BT Global Services

 

Associations (Key Chairman)

• Wi-fi Alliance - Chairman Dennis Eaton
• Steve Blood - Research VP, Gartner
• Monica Basso - Research VP Gartner
• Stacey Sudan - IDC
• Mobile Enterprise Alliance (MEA) - Traver Gruen-Kennedy Chairman

 

Key Events

Enterprise Networking/ Wireless/Mobile Summits
23-24 April 2008
London - UK

Enterprise Mobility Pavilion
Las Vegas' Exhibits: April 1-3, 2008

Enterprise Mobility Week 2008
Apr 22, 2008 - Apr 24, 2008
The Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam, Noord Holland Netherlands