Businesses adopting the iPad in a fast pace

Posted August 25th, 2010 at 12:51 am EST by Steve Mayo

Yesterday a report showed that Apple slowly penetrating the Government and Enterprise market. Today, Wall Street Journal reports that the iPad is well ahead of any other product in businesses. “Apple Inc.’s first iPhone came out in 2007, many companies told their employees that the device wasn’t appropriate for the workplace. The iPad is a different story. The company’s tablet-style device seems to be sidestepping the resistance that the iPhone and other consumer-oriented devices have faced in the corporate environment. Indeed, many businesses have raced to snap up iPads,” Ben Worthen wrote. One example is the Chicago law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, which banned the iPhone when it first came out yet pre-ordered 10 iPads in the run up to the tablet’s release in April. The technology department now offers access to its internal systems for more than 50 iPad-toting attorneys, and anticipates issuing iPads as an alternative to laptops as soon as next year.

More than 500 of the 11,000-plus applications built specifically for the iPad are in the business category. A free app from Citrix Systems Inc., which allows people to access internal corporate programs from the iPad, has been downloaded more than 145,000 times. ”Everyone in IT is jumping on this one. Rather than wait for people to start complaining they’re saying why don’t we get a few of them in and see what they are good for,” said Ted Schadler, an analyst at Forrester Research.

Apple, has sold more than three million iPads through the end of June, attributes some of the device’s success to businesses. Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said in July that “very surprisingly” half of the Fortune 100 are testing or deploying iPads.

Source: Wall Street Journal

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Businesses adopting the iPad in a fast pace

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