The Enterprise Mobility Movement

Work should be more than the short moment in life where you are forced to work with old technology. And Mobility is far more than just communication devices. That’s why the Big M Movement exists: to innovate and improve mobile solutions. Within the Big M, technology providers, integrators, operators and resellers are working together to create better user experiences. We aim to connect all elements in a managed mobility ecosystem. That’s why the Big M Movement exists. Join us, participate and stay tuned! Click here to visit our website.

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Move the Big M is looking for best practice cases, which prove that the ecosystem can work. Not only does the winner get a Samsung Tablet, 'Move the Big M' will also invite the client to the Studio for an exclusive interview.

Click here to enter your practice case.

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(Turn up the volume for the best effect) For all you shakers, creators... Move the Big M!

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Pssssttt... here's a sneak preview of the Move the Big M - Rap Video. Don't tell anyone about it!

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Nick McQuire, IDC research director talks about ICT ecosystems and their relevance for the industry. There is a clear need to create collaborative ICTvalue delivery networks.

Visit the website for more information.

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You might already know that this manifesto will be presented on November 17. at the 'Move the Big-M' event. And that parts of this Manifesto will be introduced in the coming weeks. And that this week is all about App's.

Please feel free to share your thoughts with us. We are curious, dare to reveal your secret?

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Creating your own personal ecosystem

As someone who runs a Dutch company, I seem these days to find myself spending a good amount of time in the United States. This past week I attended CTIA’s Enterprise and Apps event in San Diego, California. Overall, I must say, I thought it was a very good event. I fΩound it very interesting to see how attendees there (at least based on the conversations I had), were facing a broad variety of challenges around the way they were looking to mobilize their businesses. Some companies are still trying to determine whether or not they should allow their employees to bring in their own individually liable devices – and if they should, how much they should be reimbursing their employees for their smartphones.

Other companies are worried about the security of both the mobile devices and the mobile applications they are deploying. Some companies are trying to understand how to integrate the Cloud into their mobility strategy, while others are looking to provide their employees the necessary applications to be safe and trackable in countries where wars are currently taking place. While many of the companies I spoke to are facing very different challenges in terms of what they were trying to accomplish, they all shared one thing in common. They wanted to find ways to provide their employees the best mobile tools possible so that they could be as productive as possible (in a secure and trusted way of course). They all want to move their Big M!

That’s why I am so excited about The Big M event that we will be sponsoring in Amsterdam on November 17. If you’re in the area, you should definitely find your way there. We’re going to be discussing many of the similar topics that were talked about at CTIA – specifically how mobility is all about creating your own personal ecosystem of trusted partners who can help you make the best decisions possible for your enterprise mobility strategy and get you and your colleagues onto the mobility fast lane. I would love to have the opportunity to speak with you at that event and learn more about what you and your company are doing to move into the mobility fast lane.

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Moving to the fast lane of the information superhighway

Imagine you’re driving on the Autobahn. You’re confidently driving your high performance car at 200 kilometers per hour. You feel safe and secure, confident that you know how your car is performing and you can predict how you are going to need to change gears or turn the steering wheel as the road shifts. Then, all of a sudden, the weather starts to change…radically. The sky is suddenly filled with dark clouds and heavy rains start pouring down. You decide to slow down to 150 kilometers per hour because there’s a lot of uncertainty and you’re not sure how the road and weather might change at any moment. You notice that, strangely enough, the dark clouds and rain are not in the left lane – in the Fast Lane. All of a sudden, you see another car emerge in your rear-view mirror…and moments later, it has passed you in the Fast Lane at over 250 kilometers per hour. Can you catch up to the other car?

 A very similar scenario has emerged for IT managers. Mobility in the workplace is moving as fast as a Formula 1 racecar or a Bugatti Veyron  with its 1000 horsepower engine. Mobile devices are entering the workplace faster than most IT managers can identify them. What’s more, the individuals using these mobile devices are not just accessing corporate email and calendars, they are also looking to access data from CRM, ERP and other back-end systems. The explosive increase in mobile device and application adoption is directly related to the tangible benefits they can bring in terms of increasing the speed, efficiency and effectiveness of the workforce, thereby accelerating an organization’s business velocity – moving it into The Fast Lane.

However, in order for employees to be able to go about their days most effectively in The Fast Lane, organizations still need to have the tools in place to manage this influx of mobile devices and applications. Organizations need to be able to ensure that their employees are not only gaining increased flexibility to drive higher productivity, but they also need to ensure that the data they are accessing is protected and secured. The required tools go well beyond needing a mobile device management solution, and instead include the need for tools for enterprise mobility management, mobile application development, systems integration, expense management and more. Think of it as the tools a pit crew would have for Formula 1 race car.

It’s important to note that most cars – especially super cars – are not built entirely in-house. Car manufacturers create an ecosystem to leverage the best components possible from trusted partners for engines, transmissions, tires and more…and then add their vision and expertise to unite these myriad components into one high performance machine. This is precisely VeliQ’s vision with MobiDM.

Our objective is to create a superior, customer-centric, mobile experience by enabling and seamlessly integrating best of breed mobility technologies and services via the cloud. To date, we have partnered with leading:

Technology providers such as Sybase and SAP;

Global system integrators such as Capgemini and ICT resellers;

Mobile network operators such as Vodafone and KPN;

Mobile device manufacturers such as Samsung.

Each of these strategic partners brings best-of-breed technologies and capabilities to the table. However, these partners also recognize that working in tandem with VeliQ’s MobiDM ecosystem offers them additional opportunities to provide organizations superior value, performance and convenience as they explore and develop their own mobility strategy and move into their Fast Lane. VeliQ invites you to learn more about our vision for a mobile ecosystem that provides value and ROI to the entire enterprise mobility value chain.

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