Enterprise Information on the Go
by
Charlie Bess
I was looking at Guy Kowasaki’s blog entry on the Kindle and it got me wondering about other ways of providing information to executives about corporate performance. It looks like the Kindle should easily be able to handle most of the “how’s it going” queries, since this device supports RSS feeds… it should be relatively easy.
For a book reader, I personally like the Sony book reader form factor better -- if I were actually going to buy one of these, but the Kindle looks to be more enterprise friendly, since it has EVDO network built in.
The reason I’ll probably never buy one though is that I have a Windows Mobile phone that I use to access the Internet, read books (using MS reader or MobiReader), email, listen to music, podcasts and even watch movies (when I’m really desperate for entertainment). I’ve been doing this for years. It may be more effective (and easier) to provide the dashboading capabilities on the phone, since everyone keeps theirs with them all the time. Now that InfoPath and other techniques support mobile browsers, we can finally integrate them into workflow.
