Some Companies, Which Barred the iPhone, Build Apps for Tablet Computer and Give Apple Gadget to Employees

When Apple Inc.'s first iPhone came out in 2007, many companies told their employees that the device wasn't appropriate for the workplace. The iPad is a different story.

The company's tablet-style device seems to be sidestepping the resistance that the iPhone and other consumer-oriented devices have faced in the corporate environment. Indeed, many businesses have raced to snap up iPads.

How many of us have suffered through a PowerPoint sales presentation? You bring in a laptop, boot it up, hook it up to a projector and load the application. Maybe 5 minutes later you dim the lights and everyone sits around a table checking their email with their smart phones while you present.

Boring. And not very effective.

If people aren't engaged with you, chances are they aren't that interested in having a meaningful conversation.

Featuring built-in support for Microsoft Exchange, secure access to corporate data, and a powerful platform for apps, iPad is ready for work, right out of the box.

Despite the availability of its own version of iWorks, Apple's new iPad remains an entertainment device, not an obvious business tool. Still, it has possibilities. For business applications, in the hands of talented developers, the iPad could turn into something useful, if not revolutionary.

Some of the initial hype over the iPad has died a bit and now it's time to dig in and start to analyze the real value this tool (and others like it) can bring to the small business table.

In addition to the practical content consumption functions and the obvious coolness factor of the iPad, sales folks and anyone who needs to present ideas to small groups should latch onto the iPad as a killer sales tool.

Unless you live in a cave with no broadband then you will have already caught some of the hype and excitement surrounding Apple’s new iPad product.

The importance of this product has to do with the way we experience e-books, videos, audios etc. A big advance is in the area of sales presentations. Not the type where you are presenting to a whole room of people, but more for the sales presentations where you are talking with an individual prospect and you want to show something visual.

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