Vendor Research

Info-Tech Indaba conducted in-depth interviews with current mobile developers to get their thoughts on the state of the marketplace. This report explores their attitudes around platform selection, app store selection, and past and future changes...

(26-Jan-2012) When Bruce Poon Tip was exploring in the South Pole earlier this month, he needed a way to communicate with his 1,500 employees scattered across the globe. But Poon Tip, the founder of Toronto-based global travel company G...

Vendor Research

This report provides guidance on the market dynamics surrounding analytics tools, and how vendors and their partners can align sales and marketing strategy to maximize this business opportunity.

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The email archiving market is a confusing mixture of storage vendors, compliance and e-discovery vendors, security vendors and email platform vendors. To complicate matters even more, deployment options include on-premise, on-demand and even...

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After responses to an RFP have been received, enterprises considering email archiving platforms need a way to compare potential solutions. Use this RFP scoring tool to record and evaluate features across vendors.

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The email archiving market is a highly fragmented market, with many vendors that are strong in specific areas. Organizations have different needs depending on their industry and geographical location, and are struggling to reconcile their...

Vendor Research

This report will help vendors and solution providers better understand the Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution market.

The general feeling in the Valley right now seems to be that there is a dearth of really new ideas or companies in the hopper. DEMO was flat, everyone has their Cleantech investments in place, and people are tired of talking about Facebook for...

Vendor Research

This report will help vendors understand how to position their mobile device management (MDM) solutions.

A great number of electrons have been accelerated in describing Google's move to purchase Motorola Mobility Holdings for about $12.5B. During a dinner I shared with MS Chief Research and Strategy Officer (and member) Craig Mundie that evening,...

Vendor Research

This agenda discussion document positions Info-Tech Indaba's upcoming mobility research. By studying mobility from the IT department's perspective, the research will be able to uncover opportunities for vendors and solution providers. Info-Tech...

(27-Jun-11) The last of Nortel's assets — patents for Internet search, mobile video and wireless networks that can be used in consumer technology — go up for auction Monday, ending an era for the bankrupt Canadian telecom company. Internet...

Two divergent tendencies are becoming almost painfully obvious among companies and countries. The fact that both are driven by the same motive force, that of the growth of e-Services, makes their differences all the more striking.

(7-Dec-10) Google's just launched eBookstore, which made available approximately 3 million digital books from more than 4,000 publishers, will be a boon for the nascent e-tablet market, according to industry experts. It could also usher in...

(22-Feb-11) Google has hired Ed Chi, a world-renowned expert in social media, as a research scientist specializing in human interaction. Up until the end of January, Chi was a principal scientist of augmented social cognition at the Palo Alto...

Solution Set

Depending on the level of mobile security required, IT can implement policies, conduct training, or install third-party infrastructure to mitigate the risk of allowing personal mobile devices on the corporate network.

(29-Oct-10) Weaknesses in privacy legislation both in Canada and the U.S. helped Google escape with a mere slap on the wrist over the StreetView WiFi snooping snafu, according to tech and privacy experts. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, on...

This week, after 15 years of being either one thing or another, Salon.com announced that it was up for sale. According to its SEC filing, the firm showed $1.4 million in revenues this year, up from $1 million a year ago. And its operating loss...

(27-Aug-10) Google Inc. needs to add more mobile capabilities and support for business customers to its new Internet-calling service to compete with Skype Technologies SA and rival Web-phone providers, analysts said. Google’s Gmail, the...

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Apple's release of the iPhone 3G spurred a revolution in consumer technology that has culminated in bolstered end-user comfort with consumer technology. Info-Tech found that 83% of organizations allow personal mobile devices to attach to the...

Template/Policy

Developing and enforcing a personal mobile acceptable use policy is critical to maintaining corporate network security. This policy outlines the baseline behaviors required to ensure that employees, contractors, and related constituents who use...

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Developing and enforcing a personal mobile device acceptable use policy is critical to maintaining corporate network security. Use the Personal Mobile Device Remote Wipe Waiver to ensure that users agree if and when IT must execute a remote wipe.

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User compliance is the strongest determinant of managing personal mobile devices in a safe and efficient manner. Use this training slideshow in conjunction with a personal mobile device policy to ensure that users understand the limits of what...

Solution Set

Many organizations are abandoning their original Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes email platforms and are faced with email migration for the first time in their history.

A little jostling for market share is always a good thing, and the occasional sector blowup or segment technology revolution keeps everyone on their toes and healthy. But what happens when a global duopoly in the most strategic technology sector...

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This policy outlines the baseline behaviors required to ensure that employees, contractors and related constituents who use mobile devices to access corporate resources for business use do so in a safe, secure and responsible manner.

When you look at the current landscape of devices and appliances, there is one remaining mountaintop, one last hurdle, a towering K2, which, like the mountain itself, has claimed more bodies (or corporate product chiefs) than almost any other...

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Organizations are under greater pressure to engage a growing customer audience that will potentially access, use, and buy products and services via mobile devices. Understand the mobile application market and lifecycle and develop a strategy...

Solution Set

Today's business leaders are increasingly focused on engaging a growing mobile audience that will potentially access, use and buy the enterprise's products or services via mobile devices. However, most IT organizations charged with mobile...

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Organizations are under greater pressure to engage a growing customer audience that will potentially access, use and buy products and services via mobile devices. Use this tool to help determine whether to pursue a native or Web mobile...