Former Vodafone GM Leads GlobalOne Mobile Cloud Services Practice

Former Vodafone GM Leads GlobalOne Mobile Cloud Services Practice

According to the press release, Doug Maloney, former general manager innovation and new business at Vodafone Hutchinson Australia, will lead the new division as VP mobility at GlobalOne.

are thrilled to have Doug Maloney and his team join GlobalOne, David Northington, CEO of GlobalOne said in a statement. Appland team has been wildly successful bringing highly scalable apps such as Who2Call and Cricket LIVE Australia to the consumer market. It time that companies were enabled to meet their desire to use mobile as a serious platform for business applications. This new practice will focus on the tremendous opportunity to bring consumer style user experience and scale to mobile enterprise applications. Mobility will offer clients mobile consumer app expertise along with cloud computing, SaaS, CRM and social enterprise experience to deliver innovative mobile cloud applications.

GlobalOne says the group will help clients build a roadmap for mobile applications within their organization and then build and deploy mobile social enterprise apps that extend the cloud to mobile devices.

The practice also has a contract to build, deploy and maintain mobile applications for Vodafone Australia.

are struggling with employees and partners who want to use mobile devices as their main business tool, Maloney said in a statement. most organizations only support a few traditional mobile applications such as email, calendaring and contact management. Corporations can significantly improve productivity by delivering key business applications for smartphones and tablets where the user experience matches the expectations set by consumer apps. To date, usability, scalability and data integration challenges have limited innovation in enterprise mobile apps. This new team has the expertise to overcome these challenges and bring a whole new era of mobile apps to the enterprise.