"You can ask Siri, Google Now and Cortana about movies, weather and sports, but you can’t yet ask them about your company’s budget for the fiscal year, or your department’s sales performance last quarter. That may be about to change, however, as Google is said by The Information to be in talks with HP about giving Google Now access to enterprise data, effectively creating a virtual assistant with corporation- and institution-specific smarts. And that could open a gateway to an entirely new kind of enterprise mobile computing.

Google would definitely help HP hurry its efforts to build a new breed of enterprise search with virtual assistant capabilities, however, as Google has a big head start thanks to its consumer facing product.

Adding enterprise smarts would allow employees to tie in appointments, contact databases, company data and other crucial information with their existing calendars, calls and location information, and you can see how that might be handy if you were preparing for a meeting, discussing project performance with a colleague or otherwise looking for a way to quickly access and synthesize information that otherwise might require logging into a specific dashboard and running a complicated query."

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Good for HP...I'm not up for that type data swapping of my company, or personal info.

HP used in a news article to exemplify it’s interests to have data of the company interfaced by GOOGLE(snagging the data). HP is a publicly traded company where that info is already out there, at least that which the company is willing to explicitly show.

I can’t imagine small companies interfacing their employee personal data / general data / …etc with GOOGLE.

If you are all reading this stuff with enthusiasm …we have a big problem.

Out this morning…Apple storing patron’s interface data on servers located in CHINA.

Out this morning …Face Book fights government to stop interface to accounts, yeah right, in a pigs eye, it’s where they generate revenue, being that, all they have to sell is your personal info. It’s reported a bit different than what I commented, however that is where it’s all going, Governments(any) directly interfacing your accounts, eventually with legal legislation.

We are really heading into a very hairy environment where GOOGLE …etc bank your personal thoughts e.g. day planner…your brain is next.

I’m really not enthused with what e.Digital has to sell…unless I have complete control of how my data and how it is detailed on a server…that being, initial access to accounts, files encrypted, encrypted files then locked up with password security issues, prior to being transmitted to a server .

With that, GOOGLE, Apple, FB…etc have nothing to sell

doni