By Teri Robinson W ireless, wireless, wireless. Once an enterprise gets on the wireless track, that's all anyone seems to talk about. Such IT staffs are already stressed to the maximum and well-trained IT personnel are hard to come by. After all, last year the Gartner Group Inc., a market research firm based in Stamford, CT, said that only seven out of 10 IT positions would be filled. All in all, that leaves companies without the resources to support many complex projects that aren't absolutely key to an enterprise's livelihood.
Wireless projects start out innocently enough and often without much fanfare.
But wireless is becoming more important. And suddenly everybody wants it. And they do so with good reason. But stressed-out IT departments, still reeling from a lack of qualified personnel and complex technical issues, can rarely deliver, prompting the enterprise to turn outside to third parties to help them integrate wireless strategies with their infrastructures. There are a lot of practical problems that go along with any integration, not least of which is scaling wireless applications to enterprise levels and scaling data presentation down to something that can fit onto the small screens of wireless devices.