Gartner recommends businesses adopt a 'managed diversity' approach to deal with mobile devices in the enterprise. Turning the mobile into a trusted platform 'Important vendors such as and Cisco, as they develop applications for these devices, more and more enterprise class.' Application vendors, he added, traditionally also developed apps for platforms such as Symbian, Windows Mobile or Blackberry, but increasingly, enterprise apps are being developed for a 'broader' spectrum of devices, notably the iPhone.Ĭiting Cisco's recent announcement of a security app developed first for the iPhone, Castelli said the Apple smartphone is increasingly gaining acceptance by businesses compared to two years earlier when it first launched.
The increasing proliferation of business applications even for atypical enterprise handsets such as Apple's iPhone, are making mobile devices more enterprise class, according to an analyst.Ĭlaudio Castelli, senior analyst at Ovum, explained in a phone interview with ZDNet Asia, that in the past, the number of enterprise-specific tools and applications a user has on an office desktop or laptop were 'much greater' than those on his mobile.
