Last night on the couch, whilst watching TV I came across the above add or a very similar one for the iPad.
Now in the UK, iPads & tablets for me are still really classed as a cool gadget & fun toy to play with and until the end of last year I hadn’t seen them being used. Of course you`ll see a CEO carrying one, you or a work colleague may have one but if you’re in the UK the likely hood that you’ll be given one for work or have a business case to justify one is probably very rare..
(If not please tell me I’d love to know how you use yours).
In the US however it seems to be a completely different story.
All the meetings I attend I see at least 5 iPads come out.. (Yes, there is poor me with the classic notepad). And these people are actually using them to type, hand-write, or dictate notes, share and brainstorm ideas, share agendas, access documents. It’s not only in meetings but I’ve also seen a number of corporations like Medtronic invest in iPads; enabling their employees to gain fast access to documents & presentations securely whilst on the move.
Over the last couple of months I have seen a switch in attitude in the UK with the iPad well not only iPad but mobility on a whole and a need for cross device compliant application – it will be interesting to see how the market changes and to see how prevalent ipads/tablets will be within business. Fishbowl Solutions are already ahead of the competition investing time into their mobility solutions for E2.0 ECM, WebCenter and although I can see the majority of the market is in the US it is coming to EMEA and the rest of the world.
If you’re interested in Mobility solutions and what Fishbowl has to offer get in touch.
– you can see one of our quick POC we did a couple months back for dragging and dropping from the desktop and auto tagging documents to UCM with HTML5; using the scroll wheel to define the size of the tagging area.
