“Auto Warehousing Co. CIO Dale Frantz spent the Fourth of July holiday on his deck, fooling around with his brand-new iPhone. First, he tried pulling up a few of his favorite Web sites. No problem. Then, just for kicks, he tried accessing the company’s Web-based VIPS application, which runs virtually all of AWC’s auto processing operations,” Julia King reports for Computerworld.
“‘I keyed in the URL, and it presented the log-on page. Because VIPS was written for [Internet Explorer] 6, I wasn’t expecting functions to work,’ Frantz recalls. But after he typed in his user ID and password, up popped the application’s regular menu of options, and Frantz was off and running,” King reports.
“After his little backyard experiment, Frantz has another plan in the works: order iPhones for the 50 or so traveling managers and give them anywhere/anytime access to VIPS data via Internet access furnished under an enterprise contract with AT&T Inc. Some modifications will be necessary for 100% VIPS functionality on the iPhone, and Frantz has already charged AWC developers with making them,” King reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader ” DavidO” for the heads up.]
Dale, we love you, man!
Step by step, slowly (actually, speedily!) we come…
I believe this outfit is hq’d in Tacoma. Hmm…
London Bridges falling down, falling down.
London Bridges falling down, falling down…
Amazing what IT people can accomplish when they actually put some thought and effort into it, as opposed to the community college drop-out MS drones that stand back arms folded proclaiming that nothing from Apple will ever work within their company.
How crazy! I just bought a Tacoma!
Apple is the choice of the business world.
This would work the same for any supply-chain business, too.
Um, DUPLICATE story? This is starting to look more like Digg or Slashdot now…….
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Dale, can you come work for my newspaper?
I already use a mac here, but we could really use someone with your intelligence here. (bring your iPhone)
Gregg,
is that a variation of the old nursery rhyme that I don’t know.
For the last several hundred years it’s always been:
“London bridge is falling down,
Falling down, Falling down.
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady.”
There was only one London Bridge.
Re: One Guy from Finland. We are slowly beganing to see why Finland is known as “The gateway to Estonia.”
Comment from: Gregg Thurman
London Bridges falling down, falling down.
London Bridges falling down, falling down…
That would be:
London Bridge is falling down…
Yes, it would seem to be so.
I thought it was “Lloyd Bridges falling down.” Or was it Michael Douglas?
When these people end up being very successful and satisfied, they’ll talk… loudly. People will listen because no one likes to be stupider than the next guy in business.
All we needed was a foot in the door. Thank, you AWC!
MW “Tipping Point” as in “The MW should have been ‘Tipping Point.'”
The AWC website says that the developed VIPS through collaboration with Intel and Microsoft. Just thought I’d share.
@ChrissyOne
you are a Tacoma
So the iPhone is not suitable for business use, eh? We’ll very rapidly see what a load of crap that claim is.
God, I’ve got to get into selling crows. I have a feeling some people will be chowing ’em down before this trend is all said and done.
Finland, Finland, Finland, The country where I want to be
Pony trekking or camping, Or just watching TV
Finland, Finland, Finland, It’s the country for me
You’re so near to Russia, So far from Japan
Quite a long way from Cairo, Lots of miles from Vietnam
Finland, Finland, Finland, The country where I want to be
Eating breakfast or dinner, Or snack lunch in the hall
Finland, Finland, Finland, Finland has it all
Just need to get safari to work with my real estate MLS and then I can ditch all aspect of windows forever! . . .
My statement stands.
To anakinpedro:
In the previous article (about the wholesale migration to the Mac), the CEO says they were all Microsoft, all the way. They used to be proud of that, until Microsoft started screwing them with the license compliance charges.
Now, they’re totally 180 degrees oposite.
Sometimes I’m falling down.
Falling down.
Falling down.
My career is falling down,
Falling down,
Falling down…
@ family guy
Funny, I feel more like a Tukwila.
Macromancer…
“Amazing what IT people can accomplish when they actually put some thought and effort into it, as opposed to the community college drop-out MS drones that stand back arms folded proclaiming that nothing from Apple will ever work within their company.”
Yes, let’s hope those imbeciles (like the so-called IT pro who didn’t want iPhones in his business because it may lead to users wanting Macs) do indeed quit (as he threatened if Macs came into his empire… quit, please quit).
Such small, closed minds are an impediment. Kudos to Dale Frantz for exploring options and going with what works and not just the empire-building status quo.
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