What Can Angry Birds Teach Us About Apps in the Enterprise?

I just published a blog on eBizQ entitled 'Is Your IT Organization Ready for the Attack of the Angry Birds?'. Here's the TL;DR:

Apps inside the enterprise cannot get away with lax security and governance. There's authentication, authorization, and firewalls to worry about. There's access to enterprise systems such as SAP, PeopleSoft, MicroStrategy, and SharePoint, as well as all your trusty home-grown applications. And since you have to solve these riddles in a way that SCALES (i.e. not just for one App, but for hundreds), your distribution tool, i.e. your Enterprise App Store, has to distribute your Apps without breaking any of your security and governance rules. It's an easy requirement to overlook but a critical one.

And here's the rest of the story: I have a customer who has already tackled many of these issues (Qualcomm) and they will be sharing some of their successes and lessons learned in a free webcast later this week. You can register here.