Apple's iPad Wins Corporate Converts at Wells Fargo, SAP
The tablet computer, designed for video and book-reading, is making inroads at companies as varied as SAP and Mercedes-Benz
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Wells Fargo (WFC) spent two years studying the iPhone before letting bankers use the device at work. Apple's (AAPL) iPad, released in April, took just weeks to get cleared.
This time around, safeguards against security breaches are stronger from the start, according to Megan Minich, a senior vice-president at the San Francisco-based bank. Her colleagues used two of the first shipment of 15 iPads to demonstrate financial products at an investor conference in May. More are on the way, Minich says. "We've got a bunch ordered that we can't get yet," she says in an interview.