The Seamless Enterprise

As I explore cloud computing more and more, I am surprised by the number of companies that do not see mobility as being integral to cloud solutions. According to McGuire’s Law, the value of a product increases with its mobility. It makes no sense, for instance, to build a next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application in the cloud without rich mobile functions. Ideally, the SaaS platform is open enough that even new phones, with no specific SaaS application written for them, still work well. (more…)

I honestly believe that mobility is driving as much change into how we live and how we work as the Internet did in the 1990s and the PC did in the 1980s. I’m convinced that as companies adopt mobility it fundamentally changes business processes, organizational structures, and the basic ways in which companies communicate internally and externally. (I’m so much of a believer, I wrote a book on the topic.) (more…)