Will the iPhone be the new Corporate Standard?

Since the iPhone came out last year there has been many disputes as to it's viability in the enterprise.

Key issues raised against it was it's inability to easily connect to Microsoft Exchange and lack of remote push and wipe features, well looks like that's all a changing.

Apple has opened up it's iPhone Enterprise Beta Program with a bunch of features clearly targeted at Business including:

• Push email
• Push contacts
• Push calendar
• Global Address List
• Certificates and Identities
• WPA2/802.1x
• Enforced security policies
• More VPN protocols
• Device configuration
• Remote wipe
• Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Support
  

Now I could just stop right there but there's another bit of good news coming down the pipeline and that's with Apple's recent release of their SDK.

Truphone a UK VoIP company who wants to abolish roaming charges by routing your calls via the Internet rather than over the normal mobile networks announced on their blog that they are currently looking at the iPhone SDK and hopefully this will allow them to get their software fully integrated with the iPhone soon.



If these two technologies arrive soon they have the ability in my opinion to place the iPhone as the Numero Uno phone to have, it will work with the number one corporate email server and also allow you to travel across continents without having to pay any roaming charges.

If you're anything like me, you will be always on the lookout for ways to drive down operational costs while enabling business to operate more efficiently so here's hoping in 6 months these two products will be on the market.