“When you want to get your computers into the enterprise, you need to enlist support from channel partners — and Apple’s moves to reach closer alliances with the biggest names in that space certainly seem to be paying off,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “Apple has reached partnerships with some of the biggest names in enterprise tech: IBM, Cisco, JAMF, Deloitte, Accenture, GE, and SAP, among others.”
“That’s why the latest Canalys Leadership Matrix means so much,” Evans writes. “Apple ‘has seen the greatest rating improvement of all vendors tracked over the last 12 months,’ Canalys said. Its survey of 2,700 EMEA channel partners shows significant improvement in how Apple is seen by these enterprise-critical partners, noting that — while it remains rigid in its approach — it has at least become friendlier, prompting significant improvement in how channel players think about the company.”
“in the most recent quarter, Apple CFO Luca Maestri noted “great traction” in the enterprise as the industry moves to ‘standardize’ on iOS. ‘Intesa Sanpaolo, one of Europe’s leading banks, has chosen iOS as the mobile standard for its entire 70,000 employee base in Italy,’ he said,” Evans writes. “As enterprises coalesce around iOS, they also move to Mac because they need Macs to build the proprietary software that digital transformation demands they base their businesses on.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Smart businesses choose Apple.
Watching Apple take from Microsoft what is rightfully theirs couldn’t be more satisfying. — MacDailyNews, January 25, 2018
[Apple is] chasing after an outlandish Stevian dream: to take back the computer business from Microsoft… Like all the best fights, this one is personal. Steve Jobs is going to best Bill Gates. This fight is Shakespearean, elemental, and emotional; watching it unfold should be the most fascinating business story of this young millennium. – Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon, iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, 2005
As we have always said, even as many short-sightedly waved (and continue to wave) the white flag, the war is not over. And, yes, we shall prevail… No company is invincible. Not even Microsoft. — MacDailyNews, January 10, 2005
SEE ALSO:
Apple has a major new enterprise partner – and Apple just got even stickier – January 25, 2018
Apple hires tech team from data science startup SVDS in enterprise play – January 19, 2018
Apple is getting very, very serious about enterprise IT – January 15, 2018
Mac sales jump highlights purchasing pattern change; ‘great traction in the enterprise market’ seen – November 7, 2017
General Electric to offer Apple Macs to 330,000 employees as company standardizes on iOS for mobile – October 23, 2017
Enterprise use of Apple Macs primed to expand ‘exponentially’ – September 6, 2017
Microsoft’s Windows is doomed – September 1, 2017
Steve Jobs’ plan to take back the personal computing business from Microsoft proceeding apace – December 7, 2009
Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ ultimate goal: ‘to take back the computer business from Microsoft’ – June 16, 2005
Yeah, but Canalsys also thinks iPads are PCs. They were the first with that BS.
Considering many of the “computers” used in enterprise are just terminals running applications via Citrix…an iPad is doing the same..but it being much more portable makes it better in many scenarios.
Those aren’t PCs either.
Actually, they are PCs operating as terminals. Terminals themselves are not PCs.
This is how I explain it to my students — The iPad and other tablets, phablets, and smartphones belong in a category of their own: mobile computing devices. Wearables too form a distinct category. The well-established PC category consists of general-purpose computers designed to be operated on a stationary level surface. — and yes, laptops belong to that last category even though they were designed to be easily transported. “Mobile” has to refer to a truncated OS, “PC” to a fully-fledged OS. Put another way, neither category of device is supposed to refer to its degree of portability, but rather to its intended range of use cases, for which the OS, along with elements of physical design, is specifically crafted.
I see much of what you say in a PC. But a Personal Computer is under complete Personal Control. Hence compilers, directly programmable, owner administrated and, you know… liberated.
They are, silly.
They are.
Computers, yes. Cs… absolutely not. Android tablets come closer though, and Surface is.
Fixed it for you. Oh, and you’re not Jonny Evans.
What’s a Computer?
Looking at the actual Canalys report linked from the article we notice that although Apple has the highest momentum (growth) it is also the LOWEST ranked in the vendor benchmark rating.
As an aapl investor I’m happy that Apple’s commitment to enterprise is growing but it still has a long way to go to Canalys ‘Champion’ status.