“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.