Size Matters: Optimizing Mobile Document Delivery

摘要

The mobile space has garnered much attention in recent years as content providers position themselves to take advantage of this nascent yet burgeoning market. Most of that attention to date has centered on the sex appeal of distributing rich streaming media to smartphones and PDAs. Yet at the same time, these handheld devices are becoming increasingly useful by freeing business users from the constraints of the desktop to—for the most part—view decidedly less sexy text-based documents. Verticals ranging from healthcare to the legal profession have already begun to realize significant improvements in efficiency as a result of the mobile delivery of documents. Enterprises are deploying large-scale mobile initiatives that extend SAP solutions beyond the firewall and onto mobile devices. Specific types of documents, like forms, are gaining tremendous utility by taking on a mobile, digital form.