Author: Richard Adhikari

In a move that will heat up the market for mobile access to enterprise applications, Oracle and Salesforce.com have announced that some of their business applications will run on the Apple iPhone.

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Plus and Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, Fusion Edition, can both be downloaded for free at the Apple App Store from today, on the iPhone and iPod Touch. They are also available at http://www.itunes.com/appstore/.

Meanwhile, Salesforce.com has made its customer relationship management, or CRM,  applications and Force.com platform available as Salesforce Mobile applications on the iPhone. They, too, can be

Their debut makes the iPhone a serious business tool, positioning it more strongly against the RIM BlackBerry, on which Oracle archrival SAP and IBM have already unveiled native business applications.

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