The Seamless Enterprise

Earlier I posted about the top ten Palm Pre features for business, starting with the first five. Here’s the final five:

5.  Palm Synergy
You can’t appreciate Palm Synergy until you’ve experienced it.  If you are an IT administrator or just someone that needs to manage multiple MS Exchange e-mail accounts, then Synergy is a real sanity savor.

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Do you suppose that 220 years ago, when our ancestors were conducting the first U.S. Census, that they could have ever imagined that someday it would be done not only without paper, but with data moving through the air? Heck, even 50 years ago that might have seemed unbelievably futuristic. Read the rest of this entry »

In a previous post I raised the question of 911 calls in a unified communications environment. This is a serious issue, because there is an inherent challenge among the benefits of UC (which does not require you to be at a defined location) and e911 (which presumes you are at a defined location). In UC, location doesn’t matter, but when it comes to e911, location is everything. If they can’t find you, they can’t save you. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s not a term you hear a lot, but it is a perfect term for describing what may be the best solution that UC has to offer. It is “human latency,” or the delay involved in reaching out to someone and actually making contact. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, so it only took me three postings before I succumbed to the urge to create a top 10 list.  I’ve been using Pre for several weeks now and have had a chance to really get to know the hardware and the operating system.  I was Palm way back to the 3COM days, but I’ve been all about Microsoft since Windows CE had its coming out party to the handheld (anyone not think the iPAQ was sexy?).

My personal favorite five business features follow in this list, but let’s hear yours and we’ll compare notes on the next five in my followup post! Read the rest of this entry »