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Today, we here at Xigo are launching a new survey on mobility expenses and how companies manage them. We’ve looked at what devices our customer base uses and how they manage them, but what we’d really like to find out is what are the macro business challenges created by today’s wide range of smart phones, tablet computers, laptops and other mobile platforms.
What are companies doing to manage these devices and keep costs down? What policies are most popular? What best practices are worth sharing and repeating?
With those questions in mind, we partnered with the Center for Communications Management Information (CCMI) to develop the survey linked to below.
Please take a moment to fill out the survey, and feel free to send it along to any other managers you know who have something to say about managing mobility in the workplace.
The survey will be open until May 25
Survey link: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22FP46LLB7B
Once the survey is closed and the numbers are crunched, we promise to share the results—and any lessons learned—with you all.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Xigo Research, Industry Observations
Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) is the one topic that has remained top of mind for everyone in IT this year. For some it equals freedom, for some it is a nightmare waiting to happen.
Regardless of whether you view BYOD as a savior or a demon, there has been some great research put together on the trend. We here at Xigo decided to assemble that data and share some cold hard facts and figures around BYOD for all of you. And we decided to present it to you in an infographic. Because we’re nice like that.
For instance, did you know that by 2015, there will be more than 15 billion network connected devices? That equals more than two devices for every person on the planet! How will IT departments manage that—especially in a BYOD world?
Or how about how many employees and students would accept a lower-paying job as a trade-off to be able to use a device of their choice? You’ll be surprised at the numbers.
So read on and learn all about the numbers behind BYOD…and how best to manage it.
This week’s blog post is coming to you from Dimension Data’s Global Technology Director, Nadeem Ahmad. This blog was actually posted last year but we thought it was worth re-blogging since the content is so timely and relevant.
Results from a Dimension Data visual communications survey showed that 46.4% of polled organizations reported between 10 – 20% of their employees work remotely, and 21.3% of people are travelling 3-5 times per week.
To support this growing mobile workforce and to help stay competitive, it’s more critical than ever for enterprises to incorporate the latest technologies to help employees stay connected and be as successful as possible.
In this post, Ahmad provides some key considerations to help enterprises determine their mobile requirements and develop the most effective enterprise mobility strategy.
When you’re done with that one, take a look at one of our other recent posts that provides some good tips and best practices for managing mobile expenses in the enterprise.
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Industry Observations, Best Practices