Posts Tagged ‘iPad’

With the introduction of the iPad in 2010 many publishers felt the ideal form factor had arrived, and Apple’s App Store was distribution’s Holy Grail.

Challenge: Provide Convenient, Up-to-Date Fund Information to Mobile Sales Force Putnam Investments wanted to optimize the limited time their wholesalers have with a client by providing them with as much valuable information as possible to make informed investment decisions. Prior to FundVisualizer, a Putnam wholesaler entered a client’s [...]

Cantina is pleased to announce that the Putnam Investments FundVisualizer iPad App has won the 2011 MITX Interactive Award in the Financial Services category. This groundbreaking app, which has attracted notice in the financial industry, is an open-architecture analytical tool that enables in-depth evaluations of over 12,000 investment [...]

Cantina is pleased to announce its 2012 Mobile and Emerging Technology Planning Guide: Developing an Enterprise Approach to the Multichannel Customer. The guide was written by Cantina’s principle consultants and strategists who have years of experience helping clients leverage the leading edge of technology to extend competitive advantages: Matt [...]

Last night Cantina’s Responsive Design and the Challenges of Developing Mobile Apps roundtable event was well attended and boasted a rich, interactive discussion of the challenges and successes Cantina’s consultants have seen in the field. Our discussion leaders focused on responsive design and mobile app development. The consultants shared [...]

Join Cantina Thursday September 29th at our Newton Center offices for a Cantina After-Hours Roundtable on Responsive Design and the Challenges of Developing Mobile Apps. This will be an open-format discussion with Cantina’s consultants and developers about the challenges and solutions we’ve found designing apps for the mobile [...]

In our continuing series of conversations with Dan Barron and George White they discuss the surprising recent announcements from HP, canceling not only the recently launched WebOS HP TouchPad tablet, but their discontinuation of all WebOS devices. Why is it that no one has come close to Apple’s [...]

The article below has been making the rounds in the blogosphere, but I wanted to post it here as it includes some very poignant lessons on making the decision to deploy native applications built for specific mobile platforms or a web-based application that is deployed across many platforms. [...]

Publishers continue to migrate from traditional media platforms to embrace digital publishing solutions. This poses significant new challenges for the many publishers who do not have the in-house expertise to follow, evaluate and develop for all the new technologies and formats now available. The increasing speed of changes [...]

Organizations have options when developing mobile apps; the most significant choice is whether to develop native apps for specific phone OS’s (iOS, Android, Symbian) or to develop HTML5 web apps. Since native apps have more direct access to the phone’s hardware they can be more powerful, but there [...]