{"id":3144,"date":"2012-08-01T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2012-08-01T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:00:22","slug":"collaboration-mobile-computing-still-cant-match-the-office-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/collaboration-mobile-computing-still-cant-match-the-office-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration: Mobile Computing Still Can't Match the Office Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t that long ago when remote computing was limited to phone calls using ‘dumbphones’. \u00a0Well, mobile\/remote computing has improved considerably over a short period of time. \u00a0But while laptops and smartphones have made mobile collaboration significantly easier, there is still a big gap between the productivity possible when work is done in the office versus when it is done on the road.<\/p>\n

For example, a study<\/a> by collaboration company harmon.ie<\/a> found that 84 percent of executives say that they can’t collaborate effectively when on the road.<\/p>\n

Yaacov Cohen<\/a>,\u00a0Harmon.ie CEO, said that \u00a0“We live in an era of what we call BYOD and with that comes the expectation that every important application and document will be available while walking around with an iPad or smartphone… The reality? Not so much.”<\/p>\n

In addition, the harnon.ie survey found that:<\/p>\n