While Apple provides no hard data on exactly how many iPads they have shipped to enterprises, they have been very communicative about how many enterprises are testing or deploying iPads.
Hence today, we have business enterprises and governments that will march themselves over a cliff (like lemmings to the sea), rather than consider all aspects of their endeavours and seek the best charted waters for themselves and their posterity.
While small- and medium-sized businesses have been diving into cloud services, large enterprises have been slower to make the move, citing concerns about privacy, reliability and legacy integration.
The EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) created a market in CO2 emission allowances, meaning that heavy emitters of CO2 have to buy allowances from enterprises that have managed to cut their CO2 emissions.
Large enterprises have started becoming social businesses in earnest, and good case studies now abound.
They have founded countless enterprises, including household names such as eBay, Mittal, Google and Intel.
Enterprises have had to develop their own staff and tools to counter the onslaught.
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Since 1996, numerous Chinese state-controlled enterprises have been hard at work in Sudan cultivating energy relationships.
China's state-owned enterprises have won contracts to build railways, houses and power stations in the country.
More than 50% of enterprises have bowed to worker pressure and support personally-owned smartphones.
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Just three Brazilian enterprises have enough foreign assets to rank among the top 100 emerging-market multinationals.
It will not happen if aggressive trade unions and hugely indebted state enterprises have their way.
Both have created new enterprises, turning them on a dime when needed to account for industry changes.
The enterprises have a suite of applications that can be launched from the cloud on a variety of devices.
To date, many enterprises have been reluctant to adopt mobile application platforms due to vendor lock-in or missing features.
Few enterprises have taken the lead in pioneering the effective use of AR.
Partly through joint ventures with Western companies, Chinese enterprises have become important exporters.
Those advocates inside large enterprises have now started to make a strong enough case to CIOs to take Huddle very seriously.
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The existence of widespread shadow banking serving the private sector, however, indicates that state-owned enterprises have much easier access to credit.
Finally, it means that enterprises have an opportunity to step quickly into Big Data, which in my opinion is an absolute necessity.
Enterprises have the power to negotiate conditions with software vendors, Miller said.
Enterprises have resumed IT spending not only to replace their aging infrastructure, but also to reap cost benefits from virtualization and cloud computing.
Many enterprises have been experimenting with platforms of engagement for the past couple of years, although most have experienced a fairly high failure rate.
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Of course, large enterprises have always dragged their feet on Windows OS upgrades, sure that they can always catch up with another version later.
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"Small and medium sized enterprises have become the first victim of banks tightening the noose on the flow of funds, " says Secretary General Anil Bhardwaj.
For-profit social enterprises have the ability to adapt with the problem.
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Some Shenyang enterprises have been sold for a token one yuan.
Since then, more than 700 social enterprises and 1, 700 early-stage social enterprises have been certified, eligible for financial as well as non-financial support from the government.
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Even though large enterprises have invested tens of millions in business intelligence (BI) systems they still run their company on a bunch of spreadsheets, he added.
Along the way, Li, 47, has defied the odds in a country where government-owned enterprises have distinct advantages when it comes to raising capital or winning approval for expansion.
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