Why Apple’s revolutionary iPad will dominate the enterprise

Apple Online Store“Apple’s iPad has become the primary go-to option in the enterprise and the stars are lining up to make the popular device an entrenched business productivity tool in 2011,” Larry Dignan writes for ZDNet.

Forrester Research analyst Ted Schadler offers three reasons “why the iPad will dominate the enterprise,” Dignan writes.

Why the iPad will dominate the enterprise:
• iPad challengers will primarily be sold directly to companies
• Tablets blend personal and business together and that curtails the benefits of iPad rivals
• Apple has a massive head start on tablets and apps.

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]

12 Comments

  1. We recently allowed access to our Citrix environment via iPad. It’s been a overwhelmingly positive experience for our users. It’s too bad they have to run Windows through the Receiver, but if this one-day somehow gets a Mac on my desk, it will have been worth it.

  2. For enterprise use, it requires custom apps, not likely to be offered for sale in the App Store. Regardless, there is a great deal of momentum behind Apple in the enterprise sector right now: iMac, iPad, iPhone.

  3. YES apps are important, but It’s REALLY about the OS!

    iOS has deep roots and a solid foundation. UNIX and Mac OS X are full-blown OSes, not mobile OSes quickly cobbled together to “compete” with or attempt to counter all Apple has done with iOS.

    Apple has built iOS slowly and steadily over time. Slapping together an OS as window dressing may play well in the geek press, but in the real world, it doesn’t fly so well.

  4. As much as I love apple, Microsoft is very strong in the enterprise space and apple won’t be able to compete, not in the next decade at least. Microsoft have it all, server, SQL, Erp, Crm to name a few. Apple will never go there and right so.

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