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In the current business climate, enterprises have become
increasingly distributed and their working spans across time and geographical
boundaries. Result: the concept of mobile workforce is gradually becoming
mainstream; organizations today have employees at client sites across the globe;
they also engage consultants, vendors and suppliers spread across geographies;
to support this entire ecosystem, organizations are becoming fundamentally
mobile.
Developments in IT and network capabilities have allowed recent
deployments of mobile communication technologies and devices that support this
scheme of enterprise mobility. Its even more heartening that the entire diaspora
of CXOs, industry experts, consultants and researchers have become sensitized to
the fact that mobility really does matter in their businesses. Mobility has
virtually become the raison detre for extending the workplace. These were the
principal learnings derived from the Dataquest CIO Summit on Mobility organized
across four cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore.
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| Prasanto K Roy, president,
BMG, CyberMedia (center) moderating the panel at Bangalore: (L-R) Mrinal
Charaborty, GM, IT & Services, DTDC Courier & Cargo; Amit Phadnis,
CEO, Symbol Technologies; Ashutosh Pandey, MD, SIRF Technology (India);
Vijay Subramanyam, Sr manager, KPMG; Srinand Sridharan, VP, Global
Alliance, ValueFirst; Ravi Tennety, head, Voice Business, Airtel
Enterprise Services, Karnataka |
Experts Take on Mobility
Delivering the keynote address at the Delhi CIO Meet, Siva Kumar Ramamurthi,
company manager and MD for South Asia, Intel, said: "There is no limit to
the extent that enterprises across verticals are actually embracing mobility
today. While previously many organizations were not sure how their business
models would evolve around mobility, the same is not the case any more. Hence,
today we see a plethora of mobile applications customized accordingly so that
they cater to the unique needs of each industry."
Gopal Srinivasan, director, TVS Electronics who delivered the
keynote address in Chennai compared mobility to the low-intensity war being
fought in Iraq. "That war is being fought, and though I don't know
whether it is being won but it is certainly being fought with complete zero
latency. I think the CIOs like to use a real time enterprise of the best type,
where every soldier is connected, every plane, every tank, every command post,
data available for the best possible decisions in the most deadly situation
whether they are going to live or die."
Vinay Deshpande, CEO, Encore Software offered a fresh
perspective for the mobile worker during his keynote address at Bangalore.
"We do not have a ubiquitous wireless environment in the country. You need
to access the data from wherever you are even if there is no wireless signal.
Therefore, the flexibility and versatility of the mobile worker become
important."
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| Anand Deshpande, chairman
& MD, Persistent Systems expounding on Metcalfe's Law |
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Close to his Heart –
Prasanto K Roy, president, BMG, CyberMedia, kickstarts the Summit |
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| Siva Kumar Ramamurthi, company
manager and MD, INTEL, South Asia speaks on how mobility is embraced
across all verticals |
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"The enterprise mobile
network, be it the laptop, be it the phone has to be device agnostic..."-Vinay
Deshpande, CEO, Encore Software, Bangalore |
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| At Delhi - All Ears! |
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Gopal Srinivasan, director,
TVSE speaks on how the mobility war is being fought with complete zero
latency... |
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