Macworld has a fascinating interview up with a guy named Aaron Freimark, who serves as CTO at a firm called Tekserve. Freimark’s current job is to help companies do something we’ve talked about here quite a few times before: Implement iPhones and iPads into their business environments. When the iPad first arrived, any inclusion in a workplace was fairly novel, but these days, iPads are used in lots of various industries and workflows, and Freimark is helping companies figure out best practices and plans for how to implement Apple’s products in their business.
It turns out there are quite a few complications in deploying iPads on a large scale, which Freimark and his team continue to try and figure out. Each device needs to have an Apple ID connected to it, he says, but of course that ID needs to match up to one specific person, not the company at large, so coordinating those numbers can be a pain. Just buying the apps as well can be an issue — when a company wants to buy something like 50,000 copies of one app for distribution, it can be hard for both Apple and the company to get payment across in the right way.
And Freimark says that even when companies decide to take the leap into iPad deployment and run a pilot program, that program can often end up being messier than it needs to be, and can many times convince the company that it shouldn’t have tried to include Apple’s device in the first place. Tekserve is doing its best to help companies smooth over that process, and I’m sure that as we see more and more large companies integrate the iPad in their business (and Apple makes even better tools for doing so), that the whole enterprise will be easier over time.
Tekserve CTO speaks out on the trouble with managing iPad business migrations originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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