Friday, January 27, 2012

BTC Enterprise Mobility Sessions 2012 - Rob Langtry AWI

Rob Langtry is one of the world's leading global marketers - and leads the team driving AWI as it promotes and develops its brand.

Rob has some great things to say about Enterprise Mobility in this Sessions 2012 video.

We hope you enjoy.



BTC Mobility Sessions 2012 - Rob Langtry AWI from BigTinCan on Vimeo.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Apple Q1 2012 results amazing - what does it mean for Enterprise

Whilst there were many great "one liners" from Apple's Q1 2012 earnings conference call including

CNET saying "Apple makes more iPhones than humans make babies"

Appleinsider saying "Apple makes more iPads than HP makes computers"

However probably the more interesting story was the research published by Good Technology reporting  (PDF here) that about that iPad takes 96% of tablets, and iPhone 53% of phones.

That level of domination in Enterprise continues to position the iPad well for continuing growth in 2012....




BTC Opens Regional Office for Asia in Singapore

BTC is pleased to announce that we have officially opened our Regional office for Asia in Singapore. Coinciding with the Chinese New Year celebrations, BTC have announced that Mr Daniel Wong has joined the team as Regional Manager and will be building a team to grow the enterprise mobility business for BTC in Asia out of Singapore.

Daniel has over 15 years experience as a leader in IT with strong proven abilities in developing new markets including his time as Channel Account Manager, SEA at McAfee, Regional Sales Director at Telco Systems and Regional Channel/Business Development, SEA at Alcatel.



BTC's office is located in downtown Singapore at International Plaza.



We are looking forward to great things happening in Asia as enterprise mobility continues to rollout.

We hope you join us in welcoming Daniel to the team.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Chris Grateaux joints BTC Enterprise Mobility Sessions

Chris Grateaux CEO of Artis Group has joined the BTC Enterprise Mobility Sessions to give you a take on his vision for Enterprise mobility in 2012. Chris is a session international IT executive with a great understanding of the needs of Enterprise customers globally.

In this Session Chris talks about where Artis fits in the mobility picture and how he is working with enterprise and government users to help them to solve their business needs in 2012.



Enterprise Mobility Sessions 2012 - Chris Grateaux - Artis Group on Vimeo.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Should CIOs worry about personal file sharing site shutdowns?

With the recent shutdown of Megaupload, the question for CIOs and IT managers is "Will that have an impact on the ability of other general purpose file sharing platforms like Dropbox".

With the rapid adoption of mobile technology and the resulting need to deliver a range of content to those devices, general purpose file sharing sites have been often used as a temporary solution to this problem, but now with the added pressure from content owners being applied, is there a risk that the other sharing sites will suffer short term or permanent shutdowns?

There are many references to this on the Internet now, and whilst its certainly not something that is a certainty, it will be important for IT managers and CIOs to keep this in mind when planning their content management solution. Even worse for those planning IT deployments, the "personal" nature of those file sharing sites, leads to the possibility of workers placing copyrighted or illegally obtained materials in those services and then syncing that content to their mobile device.

The impact of potential illegal use is one of the factors that drove BTC to create a system for managing content where the organisation itself takes a more prominent role.  With BTCDashboard the IT team can play an active part in managing content and ensuring that only recommended and approved materials are distributed - even going as far as disabling the personal MyChannel for users on the system.

Comments welcome.


Thursday, January 19, 2012

BTCDashboard Jailbreak Detection


For many enterprise and government users deploying iOS one of the underlying concerns is over the security of corporate information, files and other data stored on the device.

BTCDashboard has been designed to help IT teams with deploying this content into a secure container on the iOS device, however one question we are often asked is about how we can provide secure access when there is a possibility that a user could jailbreak their iOS device.

BTCDashboard Jailbreak test

Being introduced into BTCDashboard is the integrated jailbreak test. This test performed automatically by the application checks for jailbreak and if detected removes all content from the Dashboard and stops the app from working - presenting an alert to the user, and notifying the systems manager.

You can view the video of the systemic operation here

BTCDashboard Jailbreak detection on Vimeo.

and a screenshot of the shown text is here




The Jailbreak test is another of the features that contribute to making Dashboard the secure tool for delivering mobile content.




Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Denise Carson of UXC joints the Enterprise Mobility Sessions

Denise Carson of UXC is the first featured industry leader in the BTC Mobility Sessions 2012 webinar series.

Denise has some interesting things to say about Enterprise Mobility. We hope you enjoy the session.


Big Tin Can Enterprise Mobility Sessions 2012 - Denise Carson UXC Connect on Vimeo.

BTCEnterprise Mobility Sessions 2012

BTC is pleased to announce the launch of our BTC Enterprise Mobility Sessions 2012 video webinar series.

The Mobility Sessions is a series of video webinars where BTC customers and partners talk to you about their experience in deploying Enterprise Mobility Solutions and their visions for the future of enterprise mobility in 2012.



We are amazing lucky to have some fantastic participants including representatives from large users, leading systems integrators and consultants.

With the BTC Mobility Forum coming soon, the Enterprise Mobility Sessions series is a great way to get to hear from industry leaders who can have a pretty strong opinion on the impact of Enterprise Mobility on the IT industry!

We will be publishing webinars here on the BTC blog as they are created - you can expect about 6 or 8 before the Mobility Forum hits the ground on 21st February.


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

BTCMobility Forum 2012


2012 is now upon us and as we go out and talk to enterprise and government users about the issues facing them in 2012, we constantly get told that there are few trusted places for them to turn to get access to the latest information about the enterprise mobility market.

To help to meet that need BigTinCan is pleased to announce that we are hosting an event that we hope will provide valuable information about how to move through the mobility jigsaw in 2012.

The event is called the "BTCMobilty Forum 2012" and is taking place at the Swissotel Sydney on 21st February.

The event is sponsored by some of the local market's leading mobility specialist organisations including UXCConnect, Artis Group and others.

You can find our more at the event website - or from one of the event promotional actives that will be happening late January and into February.



The event will feature some of the mobility industry's leading speakers and experts from the community. Notably the keynote speaker is Mr Chuck Goldman the Founder of Apperian Inc and ex Senior Apple Inc exec.

Chuck led Apple's iPhone Enterprise Beta Program and helped Apple's earliest adopters leverage iOS to connect to a next generation of consumer and empower the mobile workforce since the day it launched, and will be presenting on The Untethered Workforce - A True Mobile Enterprise.

We have a fantastic list of other speakers including from the user community Mr Rob Langtry the Global Marketing Director of AWI.

We hope that many of you will have a chance to attend this event, and to make the event even more worthwhile we will be providing special access to exclusive content and white papers from the speakers in a conference version of BTCDashboard - free to all attendees.

At BTC together with our event partners we are pleased to be playing our small part in the mobility revolution for 2012, and we hope you enjoy the event.

We hope to see you there :)

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

New BTCDashboard admin site UI launched

Big new for anybody who uses BTCDashboard to publish secure content to a mobile device - the new Admin site UI has just launched on the BTC cloud service globally.

Developed to provide an easy to use but powerful experience, the new web UI takes advantage of advanced web standards and some pretty cool graphics to make viewing, editing, publishing and administrating a BTCDashboard system even better than before.

The design team has focused on creating a UI that looks modern and yet doesn't get in the way of the actual work that people need to do.

The style follows through from the login page

To the main view

And then to the compose story page

Give it a go - we think you will love it.

Any feedback please send in to info@bigtincan.com

Monday, January 9, 2012

Apple to grow 50% in enterprise sales in 2012

What does this mean in the real world?

Appleinsider reports on a new study by Global Tech Market Outlook talks about a massive increase (from an already all time high) on enterprise spending on Apple products.

Its pretty clear that Apple is winning in the enterprise with iOS - and this has a great potential to extend to Mac OS as corporations and governments worldwide open their traditionally closed doors to "bring your own device" - extended to computers as well as mobile devices.

The question will be how that translates to corporations deepening their understanding of the tools required to make this transition.

Lets see how this plays out in 2012.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

2012 BTCDashboard Web Ads Campaign

With 2012 here and enterprise mobility the hot topic for many CIOs and IT mangers, we thought its a good time to start helping those who are in the market for secure content and document delivery systems to find us here at BigTinCan.

To do that we are embarking on a series of web ads that we hope you will enjoy.

Some of the samples are shown here.

We would love your feedback.

Check them out

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We would be very interested in your feedback and comments - its always tricky to get across a powerful technology story in a brief promotional piece - so please bear with us as we move down this part.

Friday, January 6, 2012

2012 the Blog is back

As followers of the BTC world would know well, since 2011 we have been using our Facebook page - www.facebook.com/bigtincan and our Twitter account www.twitter.com/bigtincan as the main medium for sending out news and happenings from the BTC world.

With 2012 upon us we think its about time to revisit the Blogosphere and start to use the Blog for what its always been intended for - longer stories with more insight and more sharing of real meaningful information - like this post ;).

So welcome back to the BTC Blog - we will be updating content here regularly and the whole team will be using it as a way of sharing information and what really matters to us.

thanks and welcome back the blog!