Ian Thain

It seems nowadays, that all large companies have an presence on the App Store with their own iPhone Applications. Sybase already has the iAnywhere Mobile Office as well as the SAP Mobile Sales & Workflow Apps, but thanks to Sybase Employee Marcelo Palermo, we will soon have the Sybase Blogs Application, which will allow you to keep in touch with all news from Sybase, the industry leader in delivering mobile solutions.   With the Sybase Blogs Application, you can: Read technical blog posts from all official Sybase Bloggers Add any blog post you like to your Bookmarks Share any blog post to anyone via e-mail Watch all Sybase News videos directly in your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Know about Sybase news and upcoming events   The App will be free and is currently in review with Apple, but we expect it appear on the App Store within the next few weeks. Then you can keep a wa... (more)

Mobile Business Objects: MBO Concept and Creation

The design cornerstone of the Sybase's MEAP the Sybase Unwired Platform is the Mobile Business Object (MBO). The MBO encapsulates the business process logic and data into a reusable unit that can be accessed from a variety of clients. The development can take two approaches,  firstly the Top-Down approach, which creates the MBO based upon how the client wants to use it... eventually binding to the data source. Secondly, the Bottom-UP approach which uses the data source to automatically bind and create the MBO. Both use the Unwired tooling and are easy to create, with similar ste... (more)

Is it iTime for iOS?

There have been quite a lot of rumors these last few weeks with regards to Apple reportedly working on an iWatch. I was wondering what they would gain with such a move? Some have pointed out that they already have the iPod Nano as a simple watch, but this repeats the functionality of the music player and lacks functionality of the full iOS device. Does this mean the age of Dick Tracy is around the corner? Far fetched you think? I would have agreed, but after I visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA last week it may not be. The Computer History Museum exhibits ha... (more)

iPhone Making Inroads into the Enterprise

For a while now, I have been stating and documenting the iPhone’s progress in the enterprise. This progress has not only been through Apple's efforts, with the  iPhone 3.0 OS update that addressed some enterprise concerns, as well as the new iPhone3GS device launch, but companies that are Enterprise enablers such as my own company Sybase, with the enterprise enablement of email and device security & management. This week Apple’s earnings announcement revealed some interesting facts, that now show that this is happening for sure! Part of the Apple Announcement that really got me ... (more)

iPhone in the Enterprise

Following on from my previous article where I state that 'Mobility is an exciting place', check out the new Apple posting on their Enterprise iPhone usage etc http://www.apple.com/iphone/enterprise/kraft-foods.html Seems that Kraft Foods have adopted a wireless office policy insode the company, using iPhone for all their Enterprise needs and have developed iPhone applications for their consumers. That takes the biscuit.... a Kraft one I hope ;-) BTW secure e-mail, contacts and calendars can be achieved with SY/iAWS Mobile Office especially if you have various email backends Ian ... (more)