Apple’s iPhone is, let’s face it, a consumer device. By which I mean if you work for a big company, your IT department isn’t going to be certifying it for syncing to your office PC any day soon. Plus your boss won’t sign off any £269 expenses from the O2 shop. For shame.
However, iPhone is gradually finding friends in the corporate world, including companies like SAP and Salesforce.com, with the former even announcing that the next version of its CRM software will work on iPhone BEFORE BlackBerry has. Why? Their own sales bods were buying iPhones, then asking the company if they could use them for work purposes.
Analysts say iPhones could become more popular within workplaces for this very reason, especially if Apple signs deals to beef up the device’s integration with corporate email.
That means licensing Microsoft’s Exchange technology, mind. ‘If they made the iPhone compatible with Windows e-mail, meaning Outlook, that would really make sales take off,’ US analyst Shaw Wu told Reuters.
Something tells me the iPhone isn’t going to see off BlackBerry handsets with physical keyboards anytime soon in this sector, but what do you think?
(via Yahoo News)
