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Apple recently announced that it had already sold two million iPads in just two months, a pace eclipsing initial sales of its iPhone and current sales of Mac laptops. We continue to see a blurring of lines between consumer and enterprise technologies. Forty-six percent of IT leaders say that employee use of personal technology influences technology selection in the office. The iPad’s success in the consumer market is likely to lead to demand for corporate support. Already SAP has released a version of its Business Objects Explorer to enable its customers to port business process management applications to iPad (as well as iPod Touch and iPhone). UC vendors including Avaya, Cisco, Radvision, and Skype have delivered products that work with iPad. Meanwhile, Apple’s latest SDK for iPhone offers developers access to voice and video services in the operating system while Citrix too has delivered the ability to port business apps to iPad. IT managers need to proactively evaluate options for adding the iPad to your list of supported devices, especially with respect to security and compliance requirements. You can expect that the drumbeat for iPad support from your users will steadily get louder.
