“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,” Maria Korolov reports for Network World. “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,” Korolov reports. “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. ‘I do everything on the iPad,’ she says. ‘It’s really my laptop when I want it to be, but it’s far lighter.'”
Korolov reports, “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.'”
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Once again, Apple changes everything. The iPod replaced boom boxes and Sony Walkmans. The iPad will replace laptops for many business users. I know I will attempt to do away with my MBAir and just use my iPad2 when I get it to see if I can do without the extra expense and size.
These figures will create a solid standard and establish the iPad as the defacto standard of enterprise tablet use.
Apple has worked closely with these companies and continues to grow their expert collaboration and development of the iPad for Enterprise assistance. This itself is worth its weight in gold to the enterprise which now has a direct line to Apple’s expertise in development.
But, but, but isn’t Google bringing out the revolutionary poontang Hineycomb to counter the iPad in the corporate market? Because, because, you know corporate IT just loves slapping anti-virus software on everything including no doubt that virus ridden Hineycomb.
Give me my Hineycomb, you poontang Zune Tang.
They must have left the force-fields off…
Meanwhile, Balmer keeps mixing the anti-matter with the doesn’t-matter.
The IT drones must be having a fit over the iPad. And RIGHT AFTER they recovered from iPhone-induced apoplexy!
Remember all the articles that they would block the iPad’s adoption, etc..
After all the years spent spewing FUD that anything from Apple simply isn’t a real business tool, while Apple has craftily outmaneuvered ALL the naysayers.
Meanwhile, the Borg Collective in Redmond is slowly collapsing from it’s own inertia.
Poetic justice!
I certainly do remember hearing that businesses would absolutely not use iPads because it had no USB port and didn’t support Adobe Flash. Nothing would have changed if consumers didn’t fall in love with the iPad. The IT managers’ minds are clearly Windows-tainted.
I still wish that Apple had some sort of salesforce to drive enterprise use, but I suppose that’s unlikely to happen. I am concerned that HP and RIM will actively try to sell their tablet and smartphone devices to enterprises and cut into iPad and iPhone sales. Normally, businesses need to be pushed and pushed hard to buy products.
You have to be careful with companies like Microsoft that try to undermine competitors. Like circulating some FUD to enterprises belittling other software and hardware vendors. Those are some underhanded tactics but sometimes prove effective.
It’s really odd that analysts and pundits are still saying that the iPad isn’t a REAL business tool even though it’s being used as one on a daily basis. How stupid is that.
Does anyone know if Android devices have hardware encryption?
There are some potential hurdles. I know the DOD would love to start using the iPad but there are many hurdles including the dependency on another computer, no CAC, requiring an iTunes account, and the way the apps are segmented on the iPad so you are required to authenticate when switching apps. I would LOVE for Apple to address these issues!!
Actually, Apple partners with Unisys to sell into the corporate enterprise. (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/25/apple_partners_with_unisys_to_reach_enterprise_government_clients.html) Sensing the opportunity for iPhones and iPads to be adopted en masse within corporate walls, Apple selected Unisys to be their partner for this purpose.
Regarding Microsoft, while a company that big can never be ignored, even the talking heads within the IT world were almost laughing at Redmond’s recent pathetic attempt to stem the tide with – get ready – a PowerPoint show. Microsoft has nothing to ship, even their long-promised Windows 7 “slate.” And the company has nothing on the horizon to directly compete with the iPad. This time, the corporate world senses that. No PowerPoint show or FUD campaign will change that.
Further, there is a world of skepticism within corporate IT about Microsoft attempting to quickly kludge Windows 7 for a tablet, something it was never designed to do. Microsoft either failed to anticipate what Apple would do, or in the company’s collective hubris, dismissed the threat to its peril.
It’s akin to the scene from the original Raiders of the Lost Ark in which Harrison Ford, when confronted with a sword-wielding attacker, simply whips out a revolver and blows him away. But in the next film, he tries again, only to find his gun not there.
Microsoft is in a position similar to Indiana Jones in the remake. All noise and no gun.
Can I place a posting yet?