Going Mobile: Building the Real-Time Enterprise with Mobile Applications that Work / Edition 1

by Keri Hayes

Overview

'...this is the first business book to come through my desk which merits a mention of good content. ... I liked the content in the fact that it gave me an overview from a business perspective. The book brings smart information for the uninformed manager

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578203000
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/09/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Keri Hayes is a writer and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, focusing on the business and technology market. She's written for Web Techniques , Computer Currents , and M-Business magazines, as well as various newspapers and Web sites. Keri was part of the launch team at M-Business magazine, where she spent almost two years covering the emerging mobile and wireless market. Susan Kuchinskas was a founding editor of M-Business magazine, helping to make it one of the most authoritative sources for information on the business of wireless. She has been a senior writer for Adweek and Business 2.0 , and her work has appeared in numerous publications including Industry Standard , Los Angeles Times , Salon , San Jose Mercury News , and Wired .

Table of Contents

Foreword Chapter 1 Envisioning the Real-time Enterprise Chapter 2 Is Mobile for You? Chapter 3 Defining Your Wireless Project Chapter 4 The Mobile Sales Team Chapter 5. Mobile Hits the Field Running Chapter 6. Wireless Local Area Networks Chapter 7. Communicative Machines Chapter 8. For the Greater Good Chapter 9. Telematics Drives Business

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Keri Hayes and Susan Kuchinskas have written an outstanding how-to book on evaluating the efficacy of mobile technology in a business. Going Mobile is a wonderfully lucid book, aimed at those with an average comprehension of technology in the workplace. The book is designed to guide business and industry managers through the labyrinth of evaluating, deciding on, and developing mobile applications.

Going Mobile covers the basics in bringing mobile technology to the workplace. Starting with an analysis of whether mobile technology is truly feasible in your business environment, this book covers how to define the wireless project, through mobile use in sales. For example, the authors begin by mapping the decision process necessary to proceed from developing a strategic vision for mobile data in the enterprise down to tactical questions such as what kinds of vendors to work with. Next, the authors offer a market-focused view of wireless, broken into the categories of mobile/wireless implementations. Within each category, they provide an overview explaining how a particular service is being used by various industries, or how an industry is leading the way in using mobile or wireless applications. Finally, the authors include a number of fairly brief plain-English case studies that demonstrate how a particular company or an agency has saved time, money, or labor by implementing the project.

For managers who are not deeply immersed in high-tech but are faced with improving yields and efficiency in a competitive world, this excellent book is a gold mine. It is full of sound and practical advice in stepping forward into the mobile world. John R. Vacca

John R. Vacca, the former computer security official (CSO) for NASA's space station program (Freedom), has written nearly 40 books about advanced storage, computer security, and aerospace technology.

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