Enterprise iPad adoption up to 80 percent in Fortune 100

My company is Fortune 500 and we use Citrix to enable corporate app access via iPad. I use it all the time when I travel or need to quickly check something outside of the office and it is fantastic. Have full Outlook/Office, CRM apps, intranet, Internet Explorer, etc. This is only going to get more popular I'd imagine.

My whole high school is filled with iPads. All of the administration have their own to be constantly working on email, while teachers rely on their iPad to take attendance and input all the grades. We even have portable iPad labs that the teachers can check out to the studens so that we can use them for class activities, usually used as a white board. But i find it pretty helpful and entertaining, and im sure it gets people's attention(:

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My company is one of the Fortune 100 companies and we have developed an iPhone app to look up doctors in our health network. As for iPad adoption, IT has recently allowed employees to carry an iPhone and an iPad as their email/calendar solution, albeit through Good Mobile Messaging. Right now we are piloting rollouts of the iPad for presentations or meeting with our customers to discuss our product offerings as well as presenting information about how their account is running.

The critics are right, the iPad is not something you do heavy coding or scripting or design websites on. However, as a consumption device and a decision support system, the iPad flies rings around laptops because you aren't doing heaving lifting. Also the enterprise people using the iPad are either using the iPad in special situations, or the people using it are executives and decision makers who simply need to have a place to read information and take notes. Laptops are notoriously horrible for people who just have to any amount of serious reading. Laptops are horrible if you just need to make a couple quick notes while walking around, because you have to put it down to type out the notes effectively, and it's gangly and unwieldly in one hand.

The critics are people who of course put the iPad on the level of a desktop PC and it's not. Duh. Those of us doing serious coding absolutely need a desktop PC to do the work, and the iPad cannot currently replace that. It's just that the iPad is a new paradigm that people are looking to try to take advantage of.

Actually as a thin client, iPad is perfect for enterprise applications... as everything is moving to the cloud, what else would you need than a great thin client to access the cloud with... :)