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Thursday, February 15, 2007
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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