Three vital things to consider when setting up a BYOD program
Balancing the technical and security aspects of BYOD can be daunting. Here are three things to consider as you get started.
Matt Rosoff is the editorial director of CITEworld. He comes from Business Insider, where he established the company's West Coast bureau, initiated enterprise technology coverage with the launch of SAI Enterprise, and helped direct the new BI Intelligence research service. Prior to joining Business Insider in 2010, Matt was an analyst at Directions on Microsoft for 10 years and blogged about digital music for News.com. He got his start in 1995 as a writer and editor at CNET.com. He's also a musician (electric bass) and the father of two children who (luckily) take after his beautiful wife.
Balancing the technical and security aspects of BYOD can be daunting. Here are three things to consider as you get started.
Workday, whose online service helps companies manage HR and finances, has doubled its revenue for each of the last three years and is expected to be one of the hottest IPOs of 2012. The company owes a large part of its success to the fact that employees actually like using it. Mobile director Joe Korngeibel shares some tips.
Information technology is everywhere now. It helps us get more done, be more social, and organize our lives better. The promise of consumerization is that it will make us more productive, more social, and (yes) even happier at work.
When this fast-growing music school decided to set up 30 new franchises in 2012, it suddenly realized that its old IT systems were slowing it down. In just over one quarter, the company switched entirely to the cloud, choosing best-of-breed systems from a bunch of different vendors. In an exclusive interview with CITEworld, School of Rock strategist Evan Trent explains how the company made these decisions, and what it ran into with vendors like NetSuite, Okta, Box, Google, and Salesforce.
Gartner warned today that Windows 8 will probably be a failure in the enterprise. But that's actually no big deal for Microsoft. That's because Windows 8 was not conceived as an enterprise play. It's a stepping stone to the next 20 years of Windows.
Employees of the Sesame Group are so enamoured of tablets, their two-year-old PCs suddenly seem clunky. In an interesting paradox that could spell good news for Microsoft and PC makers, this actually might cause the non-profit to speed up its deployment of PCs.