*This post originally appeared on the Wavelink blog prior to the rebrand in January 2017, when Wavelink, LANDESK, Shavlik, AppSense, and HEAT Software merged under the new name Ivanti.

Robert DeStefano is an enterprise mobility evangelist with 17 years of experience in the mobile productivity space.

For nearly four years, he has been responsible for all mobility-related messaging across the LANDESK brands, and in particular, Wavelink's industrial mobility products.

We recently sat down with Robert to gain deeper insights into some current topics facing the industry today. Here's what he had to say.

  • Tell us a little bit about the typical Wavelink customer. What problems does Wavelink solve for them?

Wavelink customers are continuously under pressure to work faster.

The whole supply chain is being pushed to move product more quickly—with virtually perfect accuracy—and an end goal of meeting delivery requirements down-chain, all the way to the end consumer.

Often, our customers are chasing an annual metric of getting five percent more productivity out of their operations every single year.

Wavelink helps them get there with proven solutions that keep mobile workers moving through their tasks at optimal speed.

  • Android migration is a big topic right now. What are the biggest hurdles for companies with Android?

Aside from determining the best device form factor for their workers, businesses considering moving to Android believe they’re staring at millions of dollars of application migration costs.

They don’t want to spend that huge amount of money, obviously, and they don't want to risk disrupting the backend host applications that they already have invested heavily in optimizing.

But this doesn't have to be the case as I explained in my recent post, How You Can Use Android Without Messing With Your Host Apps,

  • What is Velocity and how are companies using it?

Velocity puts a modern veneer on existing telnet and web applications. It takes these apps from a key-based interface into a touchscreen-friendly UX.

This is great for partners and end customers alike because partners can modernize their existing apps for new customer deployments.

Customers can offer a more familiar user experience to a workforce that, especially in younger generation workers, have never even seen a “green screen” terminal emulation client.

Velocity puts a modern UI on top of that proven, stable terminal emulation client, so it’s a fresh look without changing pieces that were already working.

Download our free white paper and find out how your Android migration can be as seamless as possible.