How One Company is Moving Sales to iPad

In this post, PC world talks about a company moving entirely to iPads for their sales staff.

This reflects an trend we've been covering (see "6 Ways Salespeople Are Already Using iPads...")

In the next few months, Jeff Letasse, vice president of IT for Conceptus, will hand out more than 220 iPads to every salesperson in the company. He plans to wean them off of their trusty laptops and PDAs, with the hope of never having to buy another laptop for a salesperson again.

The dam holding back consumer devices in the enterprise "has broken wide open," Letasse says.

Read the article, then remember that the concern over "the app conundrum" is largely solved. For example they discuss the "Apple License" issue, but the fact is, the best development tools for the iPad (for ERP, CRM, and B2B uses) don't even require an Apple license.

Everybody keeps fussing over the Apple License and App Store issues. But these non-issues -- we already have development tools that bypass these limitations quite easily. Spread the word!

Meanwhile iPads in the sales world are a spectacular productivity enhancer and a more powerful way of closing sales. The firms that grab this opportunity early, like Conceptus, are going to grow more rapidly and outrun their slower competitors.

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