IBM executives used their annual Lotusphere event to demonstrate some of their business applications, running on HTC smartphones and tablets. The upcoming partnership between IBM and HTC makes the Taiwanese feel pretty excited, and David Jaeger, executive director Global Enterprise and Services at HTC, said: "It’s only been really relatively recently that HTC has broken into the enterprise space. We’re driving toward that magic 100-million device number globally.

We see IBM as the gold standard for an enterprise partnership. We want to make sure if IBM is talking about Android or tablets, HTC is in the conversation."

HTC has partnered IBM to make sure its devices can run IBM's enterprise software, focusing on security, a very important enterprise feature.

HTC is also working on its unique tablet offer for the enterprise market, the Scribe pen technology, currently having 35 applications to take advantage of it. Some of the apps are on the way from third party developers.

Will Ro, director of Global Enterprise Operations and Strategy at HTC, said: “There’s a certain amount of precision with what you can do with the pen. Our stylus is an active stylus.”