Next generation mobile applications

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"Early adopters of unified communications products are technology companies like us, with an existing appetite for technology, plus any company where knowledge management is important, accountants, financial services companies, people visiting clients," says Frost.

Printing on the move

Of the office activities that lend themselves least well to mobility, printing must be foremost. But this need not necessarily be so any more. PremiereAnywhere lets mobile users use their BlackBerry, PDA or laptop to send data to any fax machine for printing. Printing an attachment, it claims, is as easy as sending an email.

"More and more people want to be away from their desk, and yet still close to the business," says Peter Semmelhack, chief technology officer of Antenna Software. "People are no longer thrilled to receive a spreadsheet attachment on their smartphone. They want to go the whole way and see into the ERP system."

What's been achieved already, he says, has opened people's minds to what might be possible. "Applications like Siebel, JD Edwards and Remedy might be complex, but what people on the move want is simple. They want to condense the information they need onto a small screen to view anywhere." This, he says, is the essence of the next generation of mobile working, and is rapidly emerging as a reality.

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