Workers are expected to be on the move, yet retain the same level of productivity, accessibility, and responsiveness as if they were sitting in their cubicles. In this changing landscape, business leaders are seeking technology solutions that truly enable mobile productivity. Many of these solutions are still evolving, and it is difficult for decision makers to discern which ones will meet their needs. Given the continued dominance of e-mail and other forms of messaging in the mobile realm, the focus is on tight integration between file management and messaging.
Device independence is an important component of keeping the cost of ownership down overall.
True mobile computing solutions must achieve seamless interoperability with installed IT resources via open standards-based APIs. Bill Ho is the founder and chief technology officer at vVault, a company that has built a leading technology platform for mobile professionals to store, access, e-mail, and fax documents from any location and through a myriad of devices. Mr. Ho created the patent-pending vVault platform and leads product vision and development at vVault. Mr. Ho graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in computer science and received his M.S. in computer science from Harvard University. Copyright 2001 Interex.