Jim Dalrymple, Macworld.com
Market-research firm Forrester on Monday released a report that looks at several companies using the iPhone in the enterprise market. That’s significant for Apple because one of the knocks against the iPhone when it first came out was that it didn’t have sufficient security for large businesses.
Based on interviews with IT executives from Kraft Foods, Oracle, and Amylin Pharmaceutical, the report explores how the iPhone made it on the list of approved devices for each company.
Todd Stewart, IT senior director at Amylin Pharmaceutical, says the iPhone has become the company’s “enterprise netbook,” and said the iPhone is easier to support than other mobile platforms. “It took all of three days to get the systems running to support iPhone. We also saw significant costs savings for our voice and data plans by moving to iPhones,” said Stewart.
Dave Diedrich, vice president of information systems at Kraft, said he used the iPhone to demonstrate that IT is serious about supporting culture change. The company has about 100,000 employees and Diedrich said that as of January 2009, almost half of the company’s mobile users have iPhones. Kraft orders about 400 new iPhones each month.
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