Apple acquires Fleetsmith to boost enterprise efforts
Fleetsmith, a company focused on mobile device management (MDM), has announced that it has been acquired by Apple.
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Apple and Salesforce announce a strategic partnership
The partnership will combine Salesforce industry-leading customer relationship management products, the security and power of the iOS mobile platform and iPhone/iPad hardware to enable advanced apps customer experiences.
Apple and Cisco partner with Aon and Allianz on cyber risk management solution for businesses
Apple and Cisco are extending their existing enterprise partnership by cooperating with insurance companies to offer discount for cyber crime insurance
Apple asking enterprise clients about custom iMac Pro configurations they’d like to order
Apple’s enterprise sales channels are preparing businesses for iMac Pro orders.
Apple announces major iOS enterprise partnership with Accenture
The partnership will see the creation of new tools and services designed to help enterprise clients transform how they engage with customers using the iOS platform.
IBM’s new Garage initiative aims to accelerate development of iOS enterprise apps
IBM is opening development studios in China and Romania dedicated to the creation of mobile enterprise apps for iPhone and iPad, in addition to its existing app studio in India.
SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS now available to developers
Apple said yesterday that a software-development kit (SDK) for SAP Cloud Platform development is now available to iOS developers. Announced in May 2016, the Apple-SAP partnership aims to help reinvent business processes and workflows. The SDK lets developers build native iOS apps in Swift, Apple’s modern programming language, and integrate them with SAP’s Cloud Platform.
For the uninitiated, SAP is a German business software maker that writes enterprise software for managing business operations and customer relations.
Apple-SAP partnership to bring first enterprise app in March
The very first enterprise app born out of Apple’s partnership with German business software solutions maker SAP will arrive by the end of March, or about a full year after the Apple-SAP deal was announced. SAP said at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain this morning that the official Cloud Platform software development kit for iOS will hit March 30 to help developers write business apps based on SAP’s Cloud Platform and Swift, Apple’s modern programming language.
Apple’s Vice President of corporate and government sales has stepped down
John Solomon, Apple’s Vice President for Enterprise and Government, has stepped down. He led sales teams charged with pushing Apple hardware and software to big companies and government agencies with large technology budgets.
Apple confirmed his departure to Reuters, but refused to comment further. Solomon wouldn’t reveal why he left Apple either. It’s unclear if losing a key executive for business sales might slow Apple’s efforts to push its solutions to large businesses in recent years.
10.5-inch iPad Pro rumored to target education and enterprise markets
Apple may position its rumored new 10.5-inch iPad Pro model as the go-to tablet in the education and enterprise markets, if a report Tuesday in DigiTimes is anything to go by. The Taiwanese trade publication learned from Asian supply chain makers that the Cupertino firm’s decided to add a new screen size to the lineup because existing 9.7-inch models proved too small and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro too expensive for business users and students.
Cisco’s software that optimizes iOS devices and apps for enterprise due next month
The New York Times article headlined “Once Taunted by Steve Jobs, Companies Are Now Big Customers of Apple” contains an interesting side-note which claims that network giant Cisco is currently testing an upcoming software “that gives priority to mobile devices or apps” ahead of its unveiling next month.
The forthcoming software solution is clearly born out of a partnership that Apple and Cisco struck last year to optimize iOS devices and apps for enterprise users.
