Lloyds International Moving 400 Staffers to the iPhone
Oct 10, 2009 blackberry, iphone, news, phones
Lloyds International is devising a really interesting move with many of their Aboriginal Australian employees. They’re moving some 400 staffers over to the iPhone. Cool! The move comes after a successful pilot task, which convinced them a move to iPhone from the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) would be a auditory sensation conclusion. Key factors into this conclusion include improvements in exploitation Exchange with ActiveSync, and a data deal with Lloyd’s service provide that will allow staffers to lead the iPhone for use as a modem.
The buffer task was a small test, but Harold Lloyd’s feels the substantiation is in the pudding according to Michael Baukes, Lloyds International head of infrastructure:
“We did a small buffer of 20 and basically it was a resounding success… That was simply because after we did a cost modeling on the return on investment on Exchange with ActiveSync the numbers pool stacked up from a security measures and totality cost of possession linear perspective.”
The relocation over to the iPhone will payoff billet once approval is precondition from the Lloyd’s big-wigs in the UK. Something I defendant we’ll hear about shortly. I tin can’t help but wonder if the iPhone will make its way through other areas of the troupe if the Aboriginal Australian passage is a success… Could it be we’ll see Harold Lloyd’s staffers toting iPhones in the UK before long? Me thinks so. But we’ll see.
[Via: MacWorld]
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