Section 1:
INTRODUCTION
If the past few decades have shown us any thing, it’s that technology moves at a breakneck pace.
Not that long ago, being available for a call meant tethering yourself to the landline on your kitchen wall or office desk. Fast forward a few years, and the advent of email opened up a whole new communicative medium for businesses. Still, sending and receiving email meant being anchored to a desktop or a laptop with a wired Internet connection. The concept of mobile communication had just begun to develop, and few could fathom its possibilities.
Mobile quickly revolutionized the way we work, the way we interact with one another, and the way we live. The United States went from the introduction of the world’s first true sProblemmartphone — the 2007 iPhone — to 70-percent market penetration in six years. Similarly, in 2010, when Apple debuted the iPad, most of the world hadn’t even heard of a tablet. Now, Forrester predicts that by 2017, the world will have almost one billion tablets, and one in every five of those will be an enterprise device.
Without question, mobile technology has permeated the fabric of our society. The problem is, it happened so quickly, the business world couldn’t keep up. Companies have found themselves in need of innovative technology solutions to completely novel problems. That dilemma brings us to why we created this guide.