“One of the most interesting things related to our tablet research of late is what is happening with the iPad in small business,” Ben Bajarin reports for Tech.pinions.
“Apple in their last earnings reports made some points related to the iPad and the enterprise but it is small businesses who are adopting the iPad at incredible rates,” Bajarin reports. “We are still underway surveying small business all over the US but with more than two dozen small business owners already surveyed it is clear the iPad is hot in small business.”
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Bajarin reports, “Interestingly so far in our study over 85% of small business owners we surveyed are either using the iPad in some way or plan to purchase and use one within the next year.”
Much more in the full article here.
Sounds great, and we’ve heard this before, but I’d be curious to understand how these companies are actually using the iPad. Yes, some have gotten iPads for business, and yes, others want to get them. But do they produce their own apps? Are there enough generic business apps out there to make the iPad relevant to most businesses? I feel like there’s few limits to what the iPad can do in the business sector, but I’m just wondering how much is actually being productively done with it and how?
Anyone with actual iPad experience in a business care to comment here? Is it working? Or still a work in progress?
It’s called FileMaker Go. It gives you full access to all of your FileMaker databases on-the-go. Since most small businesses are using FileMaker to run their businesses, this is the ideal solution for them.
Yup, use Filemaker Go with my own custom database I built. It links to a iMac at home.
Plus, Pages/keynote allows to cover the rest of my needs. The email flows 24 hours a day with 3G connection with the device running 24/7.
Camera(DSLR) upload images for immediate use or with inboard camera/iPhone camera link.
With airport express/apple tv and an iPod,iPhone, and iPad can link into a large screen tv via the Hdmi connection. So I can keynote on stage or in the audience. Add images on the spot to display with screen grab then keynote or from iPhoto. Plus play video to the HDTV from video edited on the iMac or from the iMovie on the iPad. Then post to web if needed.
All this plus, yes- charge credit cards and post payments with account status or transfer. Then bill pay from banks app.
Just to name a few. Yes, the cults that said the iPad was. Toy was a group of tech retards. Love it!!!
Grrrillia
This pleasant six minute video answers you question in SPADES.
Hell to the yeah! You nailed it.
Oh, Man. Leo’s mom made me cry.
I would like to add there is an explosion in those acquiring the iPad which is not a computer even thought it does some desktop PC things but the iPad is a device that is more far useful than a computer for many. The fantastic uptake of the iPad is certain to increase next onto with the iCloud with the result that the iPad will speed up the of rejection of the Windows PC as a tool for many who will never look back.
These history making events are astonishing to see happen in our life time.
That is why Microsoft is alarmed, their whole business is on the verge of rapidly becoming ilrelevant in this looming POST PC ERA.
Relatively few of those who are not fully informed have seen this coming and are going to be blindsided by events. HP did see what was happening an choose to save the company by bailing out of the PC World.
INTEL is franc their business may implode with the world’s switch to ARM which scales much better than Intel chips ever could.
Microsoft sees it revenue sagging and throws all they have into creating a complete new version of Windows just for ARM before INTEL fails. Microsoft makes old Windows on the intel Desktop look like the new mobile version for ARM in hopes people will feel comfortable. Uninformed idiots (Microsoft Fanbois) think the new Windows will run their old Windows programs on INTEL tablets that will look and function exactly like a slim iPad with an all day battery life.
Samsung already has demonstrated they can play any game by building a reference Intel Win 8 tablet that literally blows.
That is blows hot air from using an energy gulping Intel CPU that is running a power hungry inefficient OS. There is no word on how many extra batteries the developers got to make it through the day.
The iPad is much more than a content consumption device. It is a GREAT Content Management device!
I love the iPad and would find it difficult to believe someone who said it offered no benefit to business. In fact, I believe it easily to be one the greatest recent creations that can be applied to business. However, I find it counter-productive to compliment/praise/promote a product by using statistics of just over a dozen businesses. It’s an insanely small sample and tends to trivialize just how useful the iPad (especially iPad 2) is. Let’s wait until at least a few hundred businesses have been surveyed before posting results. Articles like these have got to make Apple-haters smile.