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Feeling the pressure to go mobile and move quickly, the majority of CIOs feel their companies aren't keeping up, according to a survey by Vanson Bourne. Conducted in February, the firm spoke to nearly 600 "IT decision makers" at large companies in nine countries.

Mobile application management refers to both a significant problem facing today's enterprises, and its possible solutions. The problem has increased in intensity over the past couple of years with the rise of BYOD in the workplace. Now IT must contend not only with secure mobile application management on company-provided devices, but also for employee-owned units. Yet the MAM challenge is far more complex than that...

By focusing on the broader CX challenge – covering the full customer lifecycle experience rather than taking a point solution approach – Oracle is positioning its CX portfolio in a way that should resonate with any executive in the C-suite trying to figure out how to deliver seamless, informed, and personalized interactions across any channel the customer chooses.

Any enterprise application can be mobilized in a secure manner with the combined technologies. And although anything is possible, our focus today is on the service technician and enabling the field with the power of mobility.

BYOD adoption and mobile-first initiatives are changing the patterns in enterprise application development, with the balance between BYOD inhibitors and accelerators swinging to the latter. This shift to mobile, enabling enterprises to harness the fast pace of technological progress in consumer electronics, has profound implications for the application development community, with enterprise mobile app development taking centre stage.

Dell has issued a new wave of releases aimed at the business intelligence (BI) and analytics market. Dell's goal is to chase mid-market firms where BI is a greenfield opportunity. Winning market share in this highly competitive space will be a challenge for Dell (like any other BI vendor), but its hardware business already has a foothold in the mid-market and it could generate some cross-sell opportunities for software and vertical industry-oriented professional services.

Enterprise mobility is more than just software or hardware; it's a journey undertaken by business to realise the benefits of a mobile workforce. There is a beginning to the journey, but more often than not no end. As with the introduction of other initiatives this journey tends to be circular. Here is one way of categorising the key aspects of an enterprise mobility journey.

Purists beware! The evolution of the private app store (also known as an enterprise or corporate app store) is redefining the definition of an 'app' as we traditionally use it. "Bull", you might say, but consider that the goal of a private enterprise app store is to increase the productivity of users by making it easy for them to find and access tools that perform useful tasks...