Convergence Of Desktop Web And Mobile

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BusinessTwoZero biztwozero.com

The impact on enterprises from the convergence of web, desktop

and mobile applications:

Convergence – myth or practical reality?

David Terrar – Business Two Zero Blog

(D²C and WordFrame)

Agenda

• Key trends – shift happens! • Desktop/Web Convergence• Convergence – The Browser• Internet penetration• The rise of the mobile phone• Is convergence a myth?• Why so few examples?• 4 practical examples• Questions• References

Key trends

Consumerization of Enterprise Applications

Desktop/Web Convergence

LAMP vs. WISA

Standards

Open Source

Convergence – Rich Internet Experience

Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

Convergence – The Browser

survey was conducted on 17,000 internet users in 29 countries and was completed in March 2008

USA – 100m, China – 61m, UK – 17.8m, France – 12.8mTotal – 475m

The rise of the mobile phone

• Grown to One Trillion US Dollar industry in a little over 20 years

• 2007 – One Billion mobile handsets shipped

Don’t forget Darwin

Evolution:

• Gradual change

• Divergence

Recent example of Divergence

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The Netbook

It works where it’s convenient

Why so few mobile examples

• Mobile developer considerations:– Service provider– Platform– Handset– Screen resolution– Colour depth– Etc

• 600+ combinations to test just for the UK!• Need to worry about a handset with 1% of the market• 2 to 3 orders of magnitude more complex/annoying than

web development

Dedicated Terminals

• 90 restaurants - UK, Europe, the Pacific Rim, the Middle East and USA

• Waiting staff have been using hand-held PCs to take orders since the first outlet opened in 1992

• Now use ruggedized Symbol terminals

Mobile to ERP integrationNative integration of SAP CRM on BlackBerry Devices

Mobile voicemail to email

• Voicemail captured sent as email

• Memo

• Blog

• Blast to mobiles or email

- artificial intelligence, voice recognition and natural linguistics

Collaboration anywhere – desktop/web/mobile

• SDN Community Project• Between IM and email• 140 characters• Team collaboration• Subscribe by person, topic, word,

object, etc.• Client, web, mobile, sms

twitter for the Enterprise

Blog.esme.us

Contact details

David TerrarCEO – D2C Limitedand Executive Director - ITBrix / WordFrame

p: +44 (0)1727 838285 (direct)m: +44 (0)7715 159423

e: dt@d2c.org.uk and david@wordframe.com w: www.d2c.org.uk and www.wordframe.com skype: david_terrartwitter: DTlinkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidterrar blog: http://biztwozero.com

References• Shift Happens, the movie, Karl Fisch, Arapahoe High School, Littleton,

Colorado - http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2007/06/did-you-know-20.html • Shift Happens, the slides

http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/shift-happens-33834• Universal McCann survey -

http://www.universalmccann.com/Assets/2413%20-%20Wave%203%20complete%20document%20AW%203_20080418124523.pdf

• http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c82509 • http://na.blackberry.com/eng/solutions/needs/intelligence/sap.jsp • Gregor Wolf on SAP CRM and BlackBerry –

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/9556 • http://salesforce.com• http://www.sap.com• With the help of:

http://twitter.com/allix , http://twitter.com/actionlamb , http://twitter.com/alexcraxton , http://twitter.com/folknology , http://twitter.com/girlygeekdom , http://twitter.com/wolf_gregor , http://twitter.com/whatleydude

Questions?