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Cortado Named "Cool Vendor" by Gartner Analysts

Cortado Named "Cool Vendor" by Gartner
in Two Categories

Gartner, a leading analyst firm, has named Cortado in two of its Cool Vendor reports. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.


Cortado achieves these requirements with two of its products.

» Cortado Workplace, included in the "Cool Vendors in Imaging and Print Services, 2010" report, is a free cloud-printing service that enables users to print from laptops and PCs, as well as BlackBerry, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad mobile devices, to any printer via Wi-Fi networks or Bluetooth. Mobile and remote workers can take full advantage of cloud print services ensuring they can print anywhere, anytime, regardless of which mobile device or printer is available.

» Cortado Corporate Server, included in the "Cool Vendors in Enterprise Mobility, 2010" report, allows organizations to integrate smartphones into their existing IT infrastructure. This helps organizations deploy enhanced real-time collaboration experiences for mobile employees. Thanks to its Virtual Desktop Processes technology, Cortado extends the availability of current desktop processes to smartphone devices, enabling organizations to provide mobile users with corporate desktop functionality such as printing and data access.

 




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» 17 - 21 October 2010
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» 8 - 11 November 2010
Cannes, France


Cool Vendors in Enterprise Mobility, 2010

Monica Basso, Brian Gammage, Nick Jones, Katja Ruud

Organizations continue investing in mobility to enhance productivity and collaboration for their workforces. Meanwhile, mobile application initiatives for the end customer base are rapidly growing, as a "must have" element for successful CRM, marketing and advertising initiatives. From among the wide landscape of players in the mobile space, we have selected four innovative vendors that may help adopters to pursue mobility objectives successfully: Gamma Engineers, Appcelerator, MoSync and Cortado. While Cortado enhances real-time collaboration by enabling desktop process functions on smartphones, the remaining three vendors address mobile business-to-consumer (B2C) application development, enabling "write once, deploy everywhere" approaches and introducing cloud services at different levels.

Key Findings

To deploy mobile B2C applications for a wide audience of end customers, organizations must develop and manage applications across multiple platforms. Device platform fragmentation affects application viability, cost-effectiveness and user experience. Many vendors offer functions, tools and platforms to address these priorities; fewer pursue a "write once, deploy across multiple platforms" approach.

  • App stores represent a major distribution channel for successful adoption of mobile applications.
  • Open-source platforms are emerging in the mobile application development space, offering organizations a chance to benefit from community-based initiatives, while containing deployment costs.
  • Virtualization of desktop functions enhances real-time collaboration, because people can more easily share information and complete tasks, access data, and function remotely.

Recommendations

  • Explore opportunities to grow and transform the business through the adoption of mobile business-to-employee (B2E) collaboration and mobile B2C application development capabilities.
  • Leverage application contextualization and personalization to provide enhanced experiences for your mobile employees and end customers.

Read the complete report »

©Gartner, Inc. and/or its Affiliates; Publication Date: 9 April 2010
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