IBM and Microsoft made a number of interesting announcements during their keynote presentations at the VoiceCon conference held in San Francisco this week.
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Today is the day that many gadget junkies have been waiting for – Apple’s iPhone is finally going on sale at AT&T wireless stores around the country. Much has been written and reported about its cool features and it will be interesting to see if the fever pitch media hype leading-up to its release can live up to the expectations and real world demands of the common cell phone user.
For many companies currently supporting corporate mobile email through services such as RIM’s Blackberry BES, Microsoft Mobile ActiveSync or Good Technology from Motorola a far different question arises: How will they support the iPhone on their existing infrastructure and what possible security risks does the device pose in the corporate context?
Michael Osterman of Osterman Research asks and answers this question on his blog.
“I believe the answer is no. In many ways, email is more database than communications tool, a repository of unstructured content that you can add to at will simply be sending me an email. If content is unwanted and unusable, such as spam, obviously it should be discarded. However, we all receive content in email that might not need a response right away, or that might be more useful when aggregated with other content.”
IBM Lotus released Sametime 7.5.1 last week. I’m not sure how I missed this in the prior release, but I just noticed that Sametime now supports integration with the Microsoft Office suite.
This feature was first mentioned last summer with the pre-announcement of Sametime 7.5 amongst a slew of many other important enhancements to the product, including the gateway to public IM networks.
IBM has published a couple of short flash-based demos of the upcoming Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr products, to their public website. Both products were greeted with much fanfare during the introduction at IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, last January.
Email attachments, specifically the (ab)use of email as a document sharing system is a common concern amongst many companies coping with the constant increase in network traffic and storage demand. Stuart McIntyre on the Quickr blog highlights an interesting approach on how to lighten the email load by providing an intuitive integration point between email client and collaboration solution.
Stefan Mehlhorn is the CEO of Permessa Corp. a Waltham, MA based company providing enterprise messaging management solutions and consulting services to many of the worlds largest corporations.
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