Suddenly, PCs are everywhere. Employees telecommute, they bring their own laptops to work, they use smart phones and tablets to extend that work, and use cloud apps and social networking to collaborate and connect. As a result many people now find that their home based IT equipment and services are often more capable and less expensive than what is provided in their workplace. Users have higher demands for the IT tools they need; it is about functionality, user experience, productivity and freedom of choice. With this, the trend for new information technology to first surface in the consumer market and then find their way into the enterprise is getting harder to neglect by Corporate IT professionals. The dynamic and personalized aspect of consumer technologies that sets the “Work and Play” culture has entered the enterprise already and corporate IT will need to embrace this trend. This movement is better described as the “Consumerization of IT”.
Scense and CoIT
As the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management, Scense is ideally situated to enable the Consumerization of IT. Scense Workspace Management enables an IT administrator to decouple the layers of the client environment that are unique to the user from the computer device on which the end-user is working. This allows users to be independent of the computer and place where they will be working. Read more on our Blog
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