"How To" Video Series on Unplugged Controls Project

Hopefully many of you are aware that we recently released a free Open Source Project called the ‘Unplugged Mobile Xpages Controls Project’ on OpenNTF (phew!). If not, you can read more about the release here.

We’ve just released the first in a series of educational videos, aimed at XPages developers, demonstrating how to use these controls and showing how fast you can start mobilizing your existing applications.

This first video introduces these controls and shows how to effectively drag and drop your way to mobilizing simple form and view data from an existing Notes app.

 

This video is a bit longer than we planned, as it includes an intro to these controls and how to download and install them. The next few will not be as long, but just as educational.

An important point to remember is that you do not need the Unplugged product to use these controls (beginning with Controls v1.2 to be released at month-end Feb 2013). They work on both Unplugged AND a mobile web browser, so you only need one code base to run real-time and off-line mobile apps.

Click here to watch now. 

If you have any comments on the video we’d be very interested in hearing what you think, just comment below. 

 For more information: Unplugged XPages Mobile Controls

200m or 830m enterprise mobile users by 2016?

Back in June I tweeted on the ABI Research forecast, http://twitter.com/#!/sives/status/83284217521381377 predicting 830m enterprise smartphone and tablet app users by 2016. On the surface, that looked like a four-fold increase on the number of mobile devices from the 200m that I’ve previously been saying will be connected into enterprise networks over the next 5 years.

Today, I revisited the article and realized that there was a bit more to the story than I had first understood. In their forecast, ABI Research split the total audience into B2E (business-to-employee) and B2C (business-to-customer). B2E users will be accessing email, calendar and line-of-business apps. B2C users will be using branded company-provided apps that they download from the public app stores.  

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