MIR3, a leading provider of Intelligent Notification solutions for global enterprises, today announced the availability of the first enterprise notification and command interface for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch mobile communications platform. These full-featured Web-based management applications from MIR3 run under Apple’s mobile Safari browser to enable corporate executives and IT administrators to initiate emergency notifications and remotely manage enterprise notification systems and response teams using Apple iPhone or iPod touch mobile devices.
“Apple’s new generation mobile communicator is growing in popularity among corporate users because of their larger screen sizes, easier-to-use touch screen keyboards and anywhere network access,” said Amir Moussavian, CEO of MIR3, in the press release. “With this new application, MIR3 has empowered the Apple iPhone as a remote emergency command device. MIR3 has a history of technology innovation and is committed to delivering support for all mobile devices, all mobile platforms and all modalities. We believe that as iPhone is adopted more widely and accepted as an enterprise communications device, corporate iPhone users will represent an important segment within the mobile-enabled enterprise notification and emergency response industry.”
MIR3’s iPhone interface also functions as an automated mobile command dashboard that allows executives to instantly notify and initiate live voice conferences among the appropriate response-team members, and access MIR3’s real-time reporting features to track notifications and responses on their iPhone.
“Disasters and emergencies are almost always unexpected, and there’s a high probability that many executives and first responders will not have access to their desktops when crucial decisions must be made and quick action steps taken,” Moussavian added. “Mobile devices may be the only functional option for decision makers during an emergency, and we believe that the iPhone, with its game-changing communication capabilities, will be a preferred crisis management and emergency communications tool for many of them.”
MIR3’s Web-based iPhone notification applications are 100% compliant with Apple’s current guidelines for iPhone software development using the mobile Safari browser.
MIR3 provides automated Intelligent Notification solutions for global and enterprise-wide communications and business continuity. MIR3’s inEnterprise, inGovAlert, inCampusAlert, inTechCenter, inAlertCenter, inWebServices and inConnect are built on a geo-dispersed, scalable telephony and application server platform that directs the global dissemination of time-urgent information to and from any communication device across any communication medium. With its recent acquisition of TelAlert from CalAmp Corp. MIR3 now also offers TelAlert branded products such as TelAlert 6e systems.
MIR3’s nearly 5,000 customers include nearly 100 colleges and 80 of the Fortune 100, including the world’s top petroleum, soft-drink bottling and consumer goods companies, and organizations such as IAC Interactive (which operates TicketMaster and Match.com), Belkin Worldwide, US Air Force, Homeland Security’s National Medical Response Teams, The American Red Cross, LA County Department of Health and the County of Orange, California, which has 1.4 million recipients loaded in its MIR3 Intelligent Notification system. For more information visit http://www.mir3.com.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Macaday” for the heads up.]
Sheesh, nobody listens to the “experts” anymore:
“The iPhone is not positioned at all for the IT world. It’s a very personal device. Most corporations are probably not going to support the iPhone on their networks,” Randy Giusto, IDC Group Vice President and General Manager of Mobility, Computing, and Consumer Markets, June 2007
“The phone isn’t designed for business… This is primarily a cell phone for entertainment and has no business using up corporate resources,” Rob Enderle, President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, June 2007
“We’re telling IT executives to not support it because Apple has no intentions of supporting [iPhone use in] the enterprise. Enterprises are not going to buy this so employees can buy music and watch movies,” Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney, June 2007
“It doesn’t have any features that would make it successful as a business tool,” Tony Rizzo, 451 Group Director of Mobile Technology Research, June 2007.
“It doesn’t have any features that would make it successful as a business tool,” Tony Rizzo, 451 Group Director of Mobile Technology Research, June 2007.
Well not exactly, it does have one feature that is hard to resist. The CEO wants one, and it had better work with his companys stuff, or else!
magic word : “time”
Someone notify Captain Kirk immediately. Ensign Kestrel out.
I am coming to understand these experts, much like the experts that the media often quotes, as simply people who talk much but think little. They gesticulate madly and issue declarations like the sooth-sayers of old and are correct about as often as they were.
If you build it, they will come.
Boy! are they coming!!! first it was a trickle now we are in the drove face, by the time sells are chugging along smoothly in Europe, that drove will turn into a tide, when the iphone gets to asia that tide will turn into a Tsunami.
Then we will see what those self proclaimed analysts have to say.
Hmm, I’ve never eaten crow — maybe we should ask them what it tastes like? Or maybe send them some recipes?
Dang, no accreditation? I guess my emails go straight into the junk mail folder.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”grin” style=”border:0;” /> I sent that this morning. But anyway, I am loving the enterprise push on the iPhone. Windows Mobile is about to get pushed to the back of the line with a fraction of a percent of market share.
Oh, one other thing, with all these IT announcements supporting the iPhone, I’m sure that a lot of the upper C-level execs have iPhones and are demanding support.
A date for the diary, BustingTheSkulls said,”I am coming to understand these experts”, and it actually seems he may be coming to understand something. And yes they are all over the media too, especially Fox (and Murdoch’s contributions in general) where they have introduced another trick, dueling analysts. But they aren’t really dueling, they are both from the same side and one is pretending. Makes for good entertainews, like the doze trolls that pop up here every so often pretending to be Mac users.
*psst*
Don’t tell the native-app boys this is a web-app. Or that it’s the web apps that are helping the iPhone make all the waves in enterprise. And that this app (and the others) will most likely work very well on Google’s Android platform, which is using Safari’s WebKit. Why write code twice when you can write it once and It Just Works?
Being an IT guy I should make one thing clear. IT departments are MOSTLY USELESS. If there weren’t so many PRICK-wish-they-knew-it-all-but-pretend-they-do-only-care-about-job-security-idiots running the IT departments the world would be a better place.
Truth,
Ciao.
This is an online tool, so development was not that hard to port for Safari. Go to the website and look at the Blackberry solution and compare that to the web version. It screams — ditch the Blackberry for the iPhone, now!
More Web App garbage. Nothing to see here.
Amazing that someone can develop such useful, business oriented software as a web standard application, before the iPhone SDK was even released. Wait a second, there is nothing amazing about that, this is exactly the kind of thing web applications are perfect for!
I’m thinking maybe Shoeman is one of those old C developers, too lazy to learn something new like programming by web standards. He is desperately trying to convince people that web apps are a bad idea, because he is so use to his old ways of software development.
“He is desperately trying to convince people that web apps are a bad idea, because he is so use to his old ways of software development.”
Ya got me Ultra Visitor. There is no need for native applications anymore. The wave of the future is the technical art of developing little web pages and calling them programs. Web 2.0, wow, that’s real technical stuff (and real secure too!!!!! Corporations are going to love this – Oh that’s right, you wouldn’t know about that either)…..
I suspect you have no idea how to program anything and just mindlessly support whatever “Steve” says we need.
Web Apps are a joke for serious users who care about features which take advantage of a computer’s hardware and real security. Of course you wouldn’t know that. It’s easier not to learn anything at all and just worship at the house of Jobs.
And don’t worry Ultra, I wouldn’t dare “try to convince” any of you about anything. You all already know it all…
“Web Apps are a joke for serious users who care about features which take advantage of a computer’s hardware”
Right, because every program has to take full advantage of all their computers processing power in order to be useful. Software for word processing, inventory management, communication, multimedia, mathematics, or anything useful cannot be done inside of a web browser. You NEED a native application to get all that processing power necessary to run any useful algorithm. The advantage of software existing online, platform independently, cannot possibly outweigh the benefits of running faster natively.
“Right, because every program has to take full advantage of all their computers processing power in order to be useful. Software for word processing, inventory management, communication, multimedia, mathematics, or anything useful cannot be done inside of a web browser. You NEED a native application to get all that processing power necessary to run any useful algorithm. The advantage of software existing online, platform independently, cannot possibly outweigh the benefits of running faster natively.”
“has to”, “NEED”, and “cannot possibly outweigh”….
Good going there Fanboy, put some more words in my mouth. I never said any of that. No one is arguing that it is possible to write a simple web app that will perform simple tasks…
Fact of the matter is that all web apps will be less powerful, slower, less secure, have fewer features and be undependable (requires an active connection) than native programs.
I guess you might believe that web apps are “good enough” (that’s what Jobs said about the Edge network)….. I’m not happy with “good enough” and few professional organizations are either…
You Sir, are a jackass. I am not going to get into a pissing contest with you, for you are an ignorant know-it-all who would rather spout fanboy taglines than learn something…
Grow up…
Ok, Shoeman, you lost me. What is your point? If you agree that web apps can be useful for such a wide range of useful software, why do you so vehemently rail against web apps?
Childish name-calling aside, I’m just really curious why someone would think web apps are “garbage”
Maybe I should phrase this in a more constructive way. With an iPhone SDK, exactly what kind of applications would really benefit from running natively?
I could see how something hardware intensive like a 3D video game, or a mini touch screen version of Photoshop, would have to run natively on the iPhone to be any good. But when it comes to any business, productivity, or genuenely useful iPhone program, I can’t think of any application that couldn’t work just as easily as a web app. Maybe you could enlighten me on the full potential of iPhone native apps.
Unfortunately, if your company has a business account for all your cell phones with at&t;, you can’t add any iPhones to the account. I keep asking at&t;and keep getting the same answer, no iPhones can be added to business accounts. My CEO and upper management are getting very annoyed when I keep telling them they can’t get one.
If anyone has any different info, please let me know.