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Posted on 02/14/2011 2:52:56 PM PST by Swordmaker
Apple's new application-level encryption paves the way for companies to run business apps on the iPad
As global accounts director at Altus, Inc., Michelle Klatt's job is to visit Fortune 500 companies and demonstrate her firm's video management software. When the iPad came out a year ago, she was all over it.
"I was one of the first salespeople to get one," she says. "I fought very hard.'' Her company's videos look "absolutely beautiful" on the iPad, she says. And once the sales presentation is over, she uses her iPad to update the Salesforce.com entry for the sales prospect, log the meeting, send out follow-up e-mails, manage her LinkedIn contacts, and do other job-related paperwork.
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"I do everything on the iPad," she says. "It's really my laptop when I want it to be, but it's far lighter."
Klatt is at the leading edge of a growing wave of enterprise customers who are adopting the iPad for business use. "Enterprise CIOs are adding iPad to their approved device list at an amazing rate,'' Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said recently. "Today, over 80% of the Fortune 100 are already deploying or piloting iPad, up from 65% in the September quarter. Some recent examples include JPMorgan Chase, Cardinal Health, Wells Fargo, Archer Daniels Midland, Sears Holdings and DuPont."
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Bah! It’s just a toy. Not a real computer, you cant use it for work.
My first thought when I saw the iPad was that anyone who does outside sales and didn't immediately adopt it was an idiot.
Would an elderly lady with arthritis in her hands be able to use an ipad? She can use a keyboard and a mouse but I wonder if she might not be able to do gestures..?
For me it's more of a "I don't feel like taking my laptop" device.....which works against me if I have to do anything more than reboot a server or reset a password.
The things I like about it are all non-work related.
Once such a lady saw iPad she would throw away her pain pills, dance a jig and play Rhapsody in Blue on her iPad using Garage Band!
Must be a part of 0bamacare...
I see, too, that small air craft are now allowed to file flight plans on the iPad.
In fact, at my company, the CEO [a PC user] bought an iPad. Now all of the marketing force have iPads and do their presentations on iPads.
Now I’m trying to convince them to do them on Keynote instead of Powerpoint.
As a trader, iPads and Macs are making record inroads.
Maybe that is how to get it accepted, give everyone an iPad.
:-)
I highly recommend that this lady get to an Apple store where she can try one out. I believe that she will be very pleased with the experience.
It’s the lack of mental dexterity that keeps me from getting a iPad or a iPhone for that matter...
I’ve owned my iPad for a few weeks now and we love it.
I’m retired, so I bought it for personal work only, however, my wife continues to work and is already taking it to work with her a couple times a week. I suspect that it won’t be long before “yes dear” will insist on having her own. LOL
QUESTION: Recommended speaker(s)?? I am hard of hearing and I would like to occasionally play music from my iPad. The internal speaker just isn’t enough for me.
You could find that the iPad may help to build “nimbleness of wit and imagination”. ;>)
My almost legally blind mother-in-law loves it. It’s easy to use, all it takes is heat from your fingertips to make it work. I think she would be fine.
Well my FReeper FRiends sure as Hell don’t want any more of THAT from me, not to mention my family and real friends...
LOL... Somedays, me too. ;>)
Well, I just spoke to her in California and she sounds excited to go to an Apple store and try one out. So we shall see. She doesn't sound worried about her hands as long as it doesn't require strength, which it doesn't, so she should be in good shape.
Thanks.
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