IBM and Apple partner on Enterprise mobile platform
In a simultaneous press release from the Cupertino headquarters of Apple and the Armonk home of IBM, the two tech giant companies announced ‘an exclusive partnership that teams the market-leading strengths of each company to transform enterprise mobility through a new class of business apps-bringing IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities to iPhone and iPad’.
The collaboration is aimed squarely at Enterprise level organizations and will reach across industry sectors as diverse as retail, healthcare, banking, travel and transportation, telecommunications and insurance. The ultimate goal is to develop a secure, stable, massively scalable industry-standard mobile framework, a platform on which app developers and organizations can build to take mobile data, including mHealth, to whole new levels of both functionality and security.