Posted on 02/14/2011 2:52:56 PM PST by Swordmaker
Apple's new application-level encryption paves the way for companies to run business apps on the iPad
As global accounts director at Altus, Inc., Michelle Klatt's job is to visit Fortune 500 companies and demonstrate her firm's video management software. When the iPad came out a year ago, she was all over it.
"I was one of the first salespeople to get one," she says. "I fought very hard.'' Her company's videos look "absolutely beautiful" on the iPad, she says. And once the sales presentation is over, she uses her iPad to update the Salesforce.com entry for the sales prospect, log the meeting, send out follow-up e-mails, manage her LinkedIn contacts, and do other job-related paperwork.
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"I do everything on the iPad," she says. "It's really my laptop when I want it to be, but it's far lighter."
Klatt is at the leading edge of a growing wave of enterprise customers who are adopting the iPad for business use. "Enterprise CIOs are adding iPad to their approved device list at an amazing rate,'' Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said recently. "Today, over 80% of the Fortune 100 are already deploying or piloting iPad, up from 65% in the September quarter. Some recent examples include JPMorgan Chase, Cardinal Health, Wells Fargo, Archer Daniels Midland, Sears Holdings and DuPont."
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Why are you so obsessed with Apple products?
I’ve always known that apple fans are like a cult but you pretty much prove it.
If one wants in on to the plantation fine, buy an apple if you have to but jeeez......
No offense of course.
iPads are fun. I don’t own one yet, but I probably will.
But for the Enterprise? Way too scary. Apple still doesn’t get it with regard to security and encryption. The iPhone proves that. Application layer encryption? Please... yes, maybe it’s a start... but they really should be capable of full-disk encryption by now.
Apple has ignored the Enterprise for their whole history. They have a lot of catching up to do if they want to seriously play in that space.
Apparently nobody's told that to these guys. Maybe you should.
My 95 year old mother with arthritic bent hands and fingers has no problem.
Electrical capacitance, not heat. If she can use a keyboard and mouse, I'd think the iPad would be a lot easier; there isn't as much finger-bending involved, and it requires less finger strength than a keyboard. You need some flexibility in the wrist, shoulder or elbow, preferably two of three, but a lot less than you need to reach from a keyboard to a mouse.
Oops... Did I forget my /s tag? Why yes I did. My bad.
I was just parroting what I’ve heard some others around here say.
Posting from my iPad.
Did you notice the list of nine addressees on the post you are replying to??? Mowowie, there are approximately 500 MORE Freepers following the elipses at the end of the visible list, all of whom have asked me to keep them appraised on news related to Apple and Apple products.
Bottom line, for the umpty-umpth time, at their request, I maintain the FreeRepublic Apple/Mac/iPhone/iPad Ping list. I take their request seriously.
It uses the fact that your body is a conductor and changes the capacitance of an electric field on the screen. Same thing though, very sensitive and accurate. The important thing would be not to get a cheap tablet that has a resistive screen, since those require a harder press and usually degrade over time (notice how many store point of sale pen devices don't work too well anymore).
User data and settings encryption is good enough. Any other data isn’t sensitive, and doesn’t need to be encrypted. More important than the encryption is remote wipe. Sure, Apple has that too, but the gold standard is RIM. Those suckers will self-wipe even if the thief removes the SIM to prevent a remote wipe command from getting to the phone.
There appears to be lots of money in the federal budget for them.
Simply hire one less IRS agent of the 12,000 in the bill to enforce the Obama Care Law. Or somewhere else in the law would be fine, there are plenty of places to hide things in there. But that shouldn’t be necessary. As you say, we have plenty of money to spend.
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Any idea what it’s going to cost to provide them with all the bandwidth they can eat?
That is another program and another agency.
Thanks for the tip on Keynote.
Too bad it can't be some other taxpayers covering it.
Did you notice the list of nine addressees on the post you are replying to??? Mowowie, there are approximately 500 MORE Freepers following the elipses at the end of the visible list, all of whom have asked me to keep them appraised on news related to Apple and Apple products.Why are you so obsessed with Apple products?
Bottom line, for the umpty-umpth time, at their request, I maintain the FreeRepublic Apple/Mac/iPhone/iPad Ping list. I take their request seriously.
I find it entertaining and informative. Unlike trying to make my brother's WinXP box work, which I find to be merely frustrating.Apple products are interesting because they are where the rest of the industry is sure to follow. Which IMHO is the explanation for AAPL's high market capitalization. Apple is able to skim the cream off the market niches it chooses to enter because it adds real value to the available technology.
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