OC CIO Minutes August 11, 2011

1993-2011
Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table
August 11, 2011 meeting

Present: Ashwin Rangan, Jeff Hecht, Jim Sutter, Jon Hahn, Joe Desuta, David Mann, Sean Brown, Andy King, Dave Phillips

The following is a list of future topics and speakers:

9/8/11 Microsoft Update Hicham Semaan, Quickstart
10/13/11 Business Analytics trends Sean Brown/Charles Wilson, RJT Compuquest
11/10/11 Google Aps. Joe Desuta, First Team Real Estate
12/8/11 Social Media David Mann, Neudesic

Please send me your suggestions for topics and speakers.

Topic: Mobility

Ashwin acknowledged that a lot of his presentation was borrowed from Simon Guest, Neudesic, from his mobility roadshow. There are 80,000 activations per day counting both AT&T and Verizon, and Microsoft has spent $1B actively marketing Window Phone 7. This causes problems with what to do with the older devices – refurbish them or mine for metals. Also you would think that you could run out of new customers but people are buying 2 or more for various reasons. Symbian has 40% share of the OS worldwide, with Android at 18%. In the US, Android has grown to 33% share in 12 months, with Apple making a steady ascent. Check out Ashwin’s slides as he lists iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Microsoft summary numbers – interesting reading. In terms of application development, is it best to write once for all devices (Open Source - HTML5), or target for your particular device? It’s the same old problem. The device feature matrix is interesting – again I recommend you spend some time studying the slides in Ashwin’s handout. They are at:
http://www.slideshare.net/occio

We asked the group to share with us their biggest challenge with mobility.

Jeff’s biggest problem is that they are in a regulated industry, and security is the challenge. Everyone wants to have their own type of device so they have to pilot them to determine which devices can run on their networks, and allow only those devices which meet basic standards.

Jim related that his client's biggest challenge is to accommodate all their innovations – the field people want to do competitive analysis on their smartphones. They are also thinking about having their own ap store.

Jon’s biggest challenge is user support, as the devices come from all over the world. He has no mobile aps as yet.

Dave’s challenges include the variety of platforms because they work with many different clients, and how to implement the gatekeeper concept so that everything developed for one client stays that way. Nuedesic has invested heavily in mobility.

Joe stated that mobile aps are not on his radar as yet. He has a nice suite of applications, which might not migrate to the mobile environment that easily.

Sean said that as a SAP partner they have invested heavily in mobility. There is a lot of proof of concept activity going on.

Andy said that they are a Blackberry user, with a legacy ERP system. They will be evaluating the integration of desk top PCs, to tablet, to iPod