Thursday, September 27, 2012

Press Release: bigtincan welcomes Patrick Welch as President and COO


bigtincan
September 26, 2012 09:00 ET

bigtincan Welcomes Patrick Welch as President and COO

Seasoned Mobile and B2B Technology Exec to Help Scale Worldwide Operations as Demand for Enterprise-Grade Mobile Content Management and Productivity Solutions Expands
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Sep 26, 2012) - bigtincan, the enterprise content and productivity solution for mobile devices, announced today that Patrick Welch has joined the company as its president and chief operating officer (COO). Mr. Welch brings more than a decade of experience working in the enterprise software and mobile technology space. He will be responsible for guiding the strategic direction of bigtincan's worldwide operations, with oversight on sales, support, business development and marketing departments. 
"Patrick has a strong track record of building successful businesses in the B2B technology space and we're thrilled to have him as a part of the team," said David Keane, bigtincan CEO/managing director. "He's joining bigtincan at an exciting time, as mobile devices become the norm in enterprises and demand for our technology in the States continues to accelerate."
Welch brings a wealth of mobile and enterprise technology experience and has held several executive-level positions throughout his career. Most recently he served as the vice president of sales at Apperian, a start-up in the mobile application management space. Prior to Apperian, Welch played a key role in facilitating the growth and success of Netegrity, the maker of network identity and access software, from startup to $100 million+ in annual sales. He was also instrumental in the success of identity and access management company Aveksa, where he was responsible for approximately 5000 percent growth between 2007 and 2009.
"bigtincan is changing the way that CIOs at Fortune 500 companies think about the productivity and on-the-road capabilities of their growing remote workforce," added Welch. "Tablet adoption in the enterprise is exploding and bigtincan is taking the next step by introducing a solution that's extending the field workforce with all the right content resources, at the right time in the right location. I'm very excited to join the team." 
bigtincan delivers a powerful, intelligent mobile solution for secure delivery of business content with a consumer-like experience. The technology helps enterprises maximize the profitability and productivity of their remote workforce by delivering a fully-integrated system for existing and emerging mobile platforms that arms remote employees with the most up-to-date and accurate business content. The solution works on any iOS or Android device and gives users the unique ability to receive, review and edit business documents, access local and corporate applications and navigate rich web content, videos and more.
For more information about bigtincan or to request a free trial of the solution, please visitwww.bigtincan.com.
ABOUT BIGTINCANbigtincan is the enterprise content and productivity hub for mobile devices that's intelligent, secure and social. The company's solution helps enterprises maximize the profitability and productivity of its remote workforce by arming them with everything that they need to do business on the road. bigtincan's technology gives remote workers real-time content access and intelligence that ensures that they are leveraging the most relevant and up-to-date information. The solution allows users to access business documents, local and corporate applications, rich web content, videos and more -- all from a single, intuitive application regardless of network connection status.
bigtincan's customers span a wide range of industries including government, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, technology and more. With Global headquarters in Boston and offices in Singapore, Paris, and Sydney, bigtincan is a global leader in mobile technology. For more information, please visit www.bigtincan.com or follow @bigtincan on Twitter.

Friday, September 21, 2012

bigtincan announces support for Apple's iOS 6 and what it means for Enterprise Customers



BTCDashboard and iOS 6 - what does mean for Enterprise Customers

Apple’s new iOS 6 adds a number of exciting enterprise features that BTC has been working on adding into the BTCDashboard ecosystem since the release of the first iOS 6 beta in June 2012.


Base line features

iOS 6 includes a number of great features that, whilst they apply to all apps, add considerable value in BTCDashboard.  Siri in iOS6 lets you launch BTCDashboard using the standard Siri screens, iOS 6 maps are now able to be launched right from BTCDashboard stories, and Quicklinks, and Facetime over 3G lets an organization create simple picture based links to directly facetime another user. iOS 6‘s support for global HTTP proxies help in enabling a corporate user to set a proxy connection in an provisioning profile that then apply to all BTCDashboard communications - its a great way to connect BTCDashboard to a private/on premise server with very simple configuration settings.

Kiosk mode - and BTCDashboard

iOS 6’s Kiosk setting - under the Guided Access settings - lets a corporate user set BTCDashboard as the only app that can be used on an iOS device - ideal for an iPad set up as a display service or tool used for presenting fixed information to a mobile workforce.  To make life even easier for the corporate administrator, BTC is introducing our own Kiosk mode into the next version of BTCDashboard that now lets the admin remotely configure a BTC client as a ‘kiosk”. Setting a device in BTC Kiosk mode will result in the BTCDashboard app removing all options for the user to alter the system - for example removing the Settings button, stopping logout, altering channel orders or turning on advanced features like USB proxy.  iOS 6 plus BTCDashboard Kiosk mode enables corporate IT to deploy an iOS device as the ideal “self service” platform for corporate information.

General improvements

Whilst its hard to point to exactly all the small but important improvements in iOS 6, in our testing BTC has found that iOS 6 is simply more stable than all previous releases of IOS.  We find fewer crashes, and improved performance when using BTCDashboard.

Whats Next?

BTC has been working with iOS 6 now for months and cant wait to see our valued users getting a chance to use the platform.  We have verified that Dashboard v2.3.2 (the current AppStore Version release in early September 2012) works great with iOS6 and we are looking forward to hearing from you about how the improvements in iOS6 help your business.





Saturday, September 15, 2012

BTC Dashboard showcased at Apple's iOS Field Sales and Field Service 5 city west coast tour

The bigtincan team had an amazing trip joining the first two stops on Apple's iOS for Field Sales and Field Service Professionals customer seminar series. Bigtincan was invited as a special guest of Apple/AT&T's 5 city tour.

Each event comprised of two sessions per day walking through how iOS could help dramatically improve productivity for mobile workers. The tour started in Portland, Oregon and made it's way to Sacramento, California. BTC Dashboard was well represented during Apple's presentation, and was one of the killer business platforms showcased at the event.

Customers are loving some of the new features coming in the next release around intelligent, secure, and social content/information delivery/engagement. For the first time clients can engage with corporate content on mobile devices in way that allows for the versatility that they're used to on pc's/laptop's/desktop's, but yet enhance they're interaction with colleagues, partners and customers.

We're extremely proud that Apple/AT&T invited us to join this fabulous customer series. If your interested in attending one of the next two events, please email Patrick Welch, at patrick.welch@bigtincan.com to register. The next two stops are:


Sept 18th – Culver City CA
The Culver Hotel
9400 Culver Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232


Sept 19 – Orange County CA
Hyatt Regency Orange County
11999 Harbor Blvd.
Garden Grove, CA  92840

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Registration
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Apple iOS in Business:
Solutions That Will Drive Your Business
Live Application Demos
Customer Profiles

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Registration

1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Apple iOS in Field Service:
Solutions That Will Drive Your Business
Live Application Demos
Customer Profiles