Success or Failure

Leading professionals Dan Rudolph, Peter Curran and David Heit met with ITO to discuss whether the industry really understands the importance of Enterprise Mobility.

Dan Rudolph is Director of Product Marketing at Motorola Good Technology Group. Prior to Motorola, Dan led product and industry marketing at Manugistics, a large supply chain and pricing optimization software company. Dan Rudolph holds engineering and business degrees from Harvard University and Stanford University. He defines the sales strategies, marketing, and product direction for Good's enterprise wireless computing products.

• 'We believe IT needs to have ultimate control over the security aspects of a wireless handheld.' - Dan Rudolph said of mobile business security.

Peter Curran is the GM and Director of Enterprise Mobility for Motion Computing. Peter joined Motion in February, 2003 and is responsible for Motion's Enterprise Mobility, and Manufacturer VAR business segments. Curran has had a leadership role in the ongoing growth, and sales of Motion's slate tablet pc's within their customer, and partner communities. Before joining Motion Computing, he held a number of Senior Director, and Management positions.

• 'We are consistently finding, here at Motion Computing the key driving factors required by our customers via our ecosystem of partner resellers, ISV's, and IHV's includes an ideal mix of mobile devices.' - Peter Curran said of enterprise mobility solutions.

David Heit is Senior Product Manager and Director with Research In Motion. Heit has concentrated on taking RIM's Enterprise solutions to the next level. He has evangelized and led BlackBerry efforts in new markets including sales force and field service automation. David has also played an integral part in rounding out the product set including the BlackBerry enterprise solution for Novell GroupWise. David has worked with many Fortune 1000 organizations and government institutions assisting them in re-engineering their business processes for greater efficiency and improved services by applying new technology.

• 'Over the years the need to stay connected at enterprise and personal levels have increased.' - David Heit said of busines mobility in the enterprise.