Sunday, July 26, 2009

iPhone Email Sets New Corporate Standards

By Greg Black

Initially released to the market as a general consumer product, the iPhone has been purchased by and made quite a surprising impact to business people in the corporate world. The appeal of this device to the business world is clear with the iPhone's impressive interface, its advanced integration to industry partners, and of course how easy it is to use.

To date, one of the biggest set backs to business users is the inability to access their business emails from the device. Because business email run on systems that aren't really compatible with the iPhone and the fact that business email is usually protected by a firewall, it makes it almost impossible for the iPhone to reach and access the mail server.

One solution that was developed for iPhone email users was to have your received business email forwarded to your personal email. There were some problems with this technique. If you needed to reply to any of those emails, you would expose that you were replying from your personal email. The best solution is to just add your business email address in your recipients list. The toughest solution, but ultimately the top solution Is to have your company's IT department add iPhone email to their supported list of devices that can access the corporate mail server.

In this age of internet, gadgets and email the concept of iPhone email is very important in being able to monitor and archive business correspondences. To make the process of integrating iPhone email into your system for your IT staff easier, your company can also consider purchasing licenses for software from Apple, Sybase or IBM.

With the appeal to employees of the iPhone being trendy and user friendly in the corporate setting can be a great help. If given enough time, effort and resources any company would realize that it is not too difficult to include the iPhone email attributes into your present administrative system. Incorporating these attributes won't be so much of a burden since its features are very handy. This is very possible for iPhone to accomplish since BlackBerry has already achieved this in the past.

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