What type of content do they want delivered to their mobile device?
2 Comments - Looking at deploying SharePoint to mobile devices should be considered part of an overall enterprise mobility strategy, that should take in to account Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies and the consumerization of IT and applications. BYOD has steadily gained momentum in the enterprise over the last 18 months and mobile enterprise users will increasingly expect to be able to use their own personal smartphones and tablets to access enterprise systems. Prosumer users are also increasingly demanding that mobile applications have more consumer-friendly UI and navigation. How to support multiple mobile platforms and devices securely is becoming one of the greatest challenges for IT departments in recent times
Thumbnail Case Study: Microsoft Academy Mobile My favorite example of this approach is Microsoft’s Academy Mobile podcasting platform. Paolo Tosolini, whom I know through the Seattle chapter of the Social Media Club, was instrumental in launching and evangelizing Academy Mobile within Microsoft
That’s where SharePoint mobile applications come into play. Reason #3: SharePoint Mobile You can use your mobile devices with close to zero effort. Just add /m at the end of the URL and your SharePoint portal is ready for mobile
This phase 1 deadline was for internal users with Active Directory accounts and was not targeted towards external or “mobile” users of the organization
A Similar Model Can Be Applied to WP7 As Brandon Watson , Microsoft’s Senior Director of Windows Phone 7 development said in Microsoft Wooing WebOS Developers Picking up traction among former WebOS devs is only the tip of the iceberg for Microsoft’s mobile dev efforts
Still though, best practices are consistently provided by AIIM and those best practices have expanded beyond ECM to include SharePoint, Enterprise Records Management, Social Business/Enterprise 2.0, Social Media Governance, Mobile and so much more (we stay very busy)
A Power BI Site for users to share, view, and interact with the available reports Power BI app, available via the Power BI Windows Store, allows you to view reports on the go with your mobile device , as shown in the image below: SharePoint & Office 365 Business Intelligence “From the Consulting Trenches” I will continue to share EPC Group's SharePoint & Office 365 Business Intelligence (BI) deep-dive blog series in the weeks to come to touch on the real-world “ from the consulting trenches ” approach that EPC Group has successfully implemented for hundreds of organizations throughout North America
We all live in a time where information is almost instantaneous and mobile advancements in the world are only helping to increase our expectations of “information at our fingertips” 24/7
With mobile being more and more prevalent there are multiple ways to approach this but for this articles sake I would recommend at least some CSS and logo updates to your sites to bring people into the portal
Other organizations may be interested in implementing a professional (social) networking or business intelligence (BI) platform as well as rolling out workflows to streamline business processes while ensuring extranet and mobile compatibility