The Ubiquitous Network

u•biq•ui•tous, adjective: existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent. A blog to share thoughts and ideas about the evolution of the ubiquitous network. The topics covered in this blog range from device, network, data center, and enterprise software with a special interest in business models, partnerships, developer communities, and technology adoption. The opinions expressed in this blog are mine and not necessarily those of my past or present employers.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

The 8 most important types of collaboration apps for smart phones

According to this article which covers a recent Forr

ester report, the following applications will matter the most on smart phones and tablets:

E-mail and calendars
Document-based collaboration
Web conferencing
Activity streams
Presence and chat
Social collaboration
Expertise location
Videoconferencing

No real surprise, this was the kind of list that was circulated around 10 years ago except for the social collaboration and activity streams.

I found the following figure quite valuable as we always discuss the value of rich vs thin vs native type of mobile application. Clearly, the back-end is moving to the cloud while the front-end is mobile or better: multi-channels.