IPhone Makes Headway In Enterprises

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) appears to be getting some traction in business, because gadget-loving tech-heads are buying them and the IT department is accommodating that. “This isn’t necessarily iPhone deployment by way of the IT department, but it’s by people who really want to use this device and IT is responding in a really positive way,” said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with market research firm Jupiter Research is quoted as saying in Reuters. There was concern that the IT department of some companies would refuse to deal with the iPhone, but as employees of software companies buy the iPhone and their IT departments deal with that, they’ve worked on the device anyway so it’s easy to sell that to enterprise customers. Examples given in the story are SAP, Salesforce.com and “scores of smaller developers”… SAP in particular would bring out a version of its CRM software for the iPhone before gadgets from RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and Palm, (NSDQ: PALM) simply because its own salesforce is clamouring for it. To really take off in the enterprise it seems the iPhone will have to be compatible with Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) Outlook e-mail software…

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