iPhone, Apple and Business

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Irwin Lazar, Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

January 12, 2009

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In the "something I never thought I'd see" department, Cisco won top honors at MacWorld last week for its new WebEx and MeetingPlace clients for iPhone, enabling iPhone users to participate in web conferences. Features vary by system, but this move reflects a couple of realities:

  • with little support from Apple, the iPhone is quickly becoming an enterprise device (witness earlier announcements from Avaya and IBM Lotus among others)

  • collaboration applications are moving into the mobile device world thanks to innovations such as Apple's fully featured iPhone browser


The rise in mainstream support for the iPhone continues into the Mac world, as IBM released Notes 8.5 for the Mac this week. I've been using the beta for about 3 months now and have found it to be fairly stable. It's a fully feature comparable with Windows versions, and a huge improvement over the basic version I had used in the past.

Have we finally reached the point where Apple is viewed as a serious enterprise platform rather than a nuisance from IT's perspective, and a costly excess from the view of management? I'd argue that we have.

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Irwin Lazar

Irwin Lazar

Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

Irwin Lazar is the Vice President and Service Director at Nemertes Research, where he manages research operations, develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises numerous enterprise and vendor clients. Irwin is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in areas including VOIP, UC, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration, contact center and customer engagement.

A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Irwin is a blogger for No Jitter and frequent author for SearchUnifiedCommunications.com. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press and is regular speaker at events such as Enterprise Connect and Interop. Irwin's earlier background was in IP network architecture, design and engineering.

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