Gartner analysts, William Clark and Mark Margevicius, will take an in-depth look at the market trends, key benefits, core technologies and best practices that can make a mobile and wireless strategy a success in the midsize enterprise.

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Killer Mobile Applications: Ready for Midsize Business Use
Presenter: William Clark, Research Director, Mobile and Wireless, Gartner

For an enterprise to create sustainable mobile applications, it must create a baseline of operations models and metrics, set mobile requirements, implement mobile pilots and projects, and conduct assessments to gain feedback. We will examine best practices of deploying mobile applications within midsize businesses and the pitfalls to avoid failure. Key issues we will discuss:

>What are the specific implementation and support details that make mobile applications successful?

>How can enterprises correctly identify and extend enterprise applications and business processes to groups of mobile workers?

>Who are the top vendors in the mobile application market space?

Wireless LANs: Ready for Midsize Business?
Presenter: William Clark, Research Director, Mobile and Wireless, Gartner

Wireless LAN (WLAN) has created an enormous impact upon business productivity in Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, and collaboration. Midsize businesses today are faced with new choices regarding WLAN variants, public hotspots, and challenges in remaining secure while mobile. Key issues we will discuss include:

>What are the key benefits and core technologies of 802.11?

>How can midsize businesses deploy and manage WLANs effectively without compromising security?

>How can midsize business assess the costs and benefits of installing WLANs to make their businesses more competitive?

Market Trends for Laptops and Other Mobile Devices
Presenter: Mark Margevicius, Research Director, Client Platforms, Gartner

Ever-changing business requirements have dictated a change in how we work and the mobile devices we choose to accomplish that work. Yet for most organizations, client device diversity has added cost and in many ways additional risk. We evaluate the various mobile technologies as to their true value, and offer guidance as to the best ways to standardize and manage the diversity.

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