Ian Thain

I am already an avid believer of Mobility and Tablet computing in the Enterprise, so this week I decided to think about what could be achieved within Education. For the rest of my thoughts I will use my Converged Mobile Device of choice … the iPad. There is already a student web page on the Apple website saying why the iPad is ready for college/university. It obviously states its great features, the generally available apps and novel books but I think the next step will be beyond that and will leave us asking ourselves 'Why didn't we think of that already?'. It will be so obvious but so simple and change the way our students will learn for the rest of our lives… Tablet Computing in education is poised to the biggest thing to hit academia, than the tablet that students used many many years ago, the slate tablet and chalk. To me, getting into the education market with... (more)

Tweet-sized Mobile App thoughts!

Today I decided to give tweet-sized Mobile App thoughts… What do your #Corporate #Mobile #Devices & #Apps say about your business? Streamline, Powerful, Innovative? Taking advantage of the future? Remember #Mobility is NOT a magic bullet! Its only as powerful as the #Mobile #Apps that are developed. The power in in your in-house teams To build a [...] ... (more)

2012 the Year of the Tablet and Mobile Developer

Today I noticed two very separate articles, though to me they are both interrelated and on a subject that I feel very strongly about: Tablet Devices and Mobile App Development. It is no secret that I am a total iOS convert in my personal life, living with my iPhone and iPad, but as a Businessman and Technologist I am just as much of a convert to Enterprise Mobility and Development, so much so that I have predicted that 2012 will be the year of the Mobile Developer, Enterprise Business App and Tablet Device… more than 2011. So it was NO surprise to me that… Firstly PRWeb.com had ... (more)

The Mobile Business Object... Your Mobile Way Forward

Today's Real Time Enterprise is mobility

 and it is my belief that if you as an enterprise are not either starting or have plans for developing mobile apps, that give you massive competitive advantages, then your competitors will be and you are going to be left in the starting blocks... but enough evangelizing ;-). As you probably know the Mobile Business Object (MBO) is at the heart of Sybase's UnWired Platform, which is a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform used in turn as part of the SAP Mobility Platform. Once defined the MBO can be used in Native (such as iOS) as well a... (more)

Great Content at the Sybase and SAP Nordic Roadshow 2011

Last Month the Sybase SAP Nordic Roadshow again hit 4 countries in 4 days... Stockholm Sweden, Helsinki Finland, Oslo Norway and Copenhagen Denmark. A serious amount of traveling, delivering a serious amount of content, within the 3 tracks Manage, Analyze and Mobilize. A number of the key speakers, including myself had presented at Sybase TechWave, which was co-located with SAP TechEd in Las Vegas the week before... Raj Rathee and Javier Cuerva had Manage, Dan Lahl had Analyze and I had Mobilize. Along for the ride we also had guest speakers from 18 partners and local Sybase / SA... (more)