Increasingly, users are asking for access to content repositories from mobile devices, such as phones and iPads. The usage scenarios are primarily for reference purposes, such as checking the price on a proposal document or looking at the age listed on an application, etc. How big a...
HTML5 addresses the needs of all document types and allows the organization to create custom applications, but is ‘top-heavy’ when it comes to addressing the needs of offline mobile users, and provides no out-of-the-box mechanism for efficiently handling updates or minimizing the amount of data to be distributed to offline users
What needs to be redesigned is the overall mobile user experience, meaning mostly how the navigation, the presentation, user input and even how the size of data transmitted will differ from the desktop version
Either through the use of VPN or thin-client technology, the mobile user ‘looked’ the same to the ECM system as a local user in the office
Vendors need to plan for access via mobile devices, and strategize around making the mobile user experience as solid as say, the Google app on the iphone
As I am writing this, I was just notified of fellow AIIM blogger James Watson’s post Mobile Content for Mobile Users , James makes some very good points there, and I am trying to address them, even though I am missing the target he defines
- Enable a mobile user to take a simple action (e.g. change a pick list value) - Choose a process for which an action has significant downstream impact
Mobile Web Usage According to recent IDC study , the most popular activites of mobile users include sending and receiving IMs, web search, downloading music and videos, reading news, literature, social networking (e.g
With new, cheap SaaS email offerings available from Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Google, and with ever more mobile users, it may be time to face some hard facts about email management
Don’t get me wrong, I see the benefit of HTML5, but I also see the potential danger in the way it might chip away a potentially great mobile user experience. I only have experience developing for one mobile platform (iOS) and I don’t have much of that
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