Finding the Right Partner
A unified communication and collaboration (UCC) system involves migrating to IP telephony, consolidating networks and integrating your communication platforms. The benefits include boosting productivity with fewer message applications and formats to deal with, minimising IT costs by reducing the number of different systems to manage and support, and reducing your environmental impact. It also allows … Continued
What’s Wrong With Email?
Let’s face it: most people hate change, especially when it’s forced upon them from the outside. We will all have seen occasions when people insist on performing a task in an inefficient manner, even though the tools they have at…
The challenges of UCC
No technology is without its challenges, and that includes unified communications and collaboration (UCC) systems. Overcoming them is – as ever – a matter of meticulous planning. There’s a number of issues to take into account when planning the deployment…
Why Deploy a Unified Communications and Collaboration System?
Do your users struggle to access the information they need when they need it, get hold of colleagues wherever they are, or work with customers, partners, suppliers? Are your communications costs spiralling as your organisation expands its global reach? Maybe a unified communications and collaboration (UCC) has what you need. UCC has a long history … Continued
Getting Licensing Right
Once an employee-selected device is connected to the company’s network, it is your responsibility to ensure that any software that it uses is fully licensed. The software vendor is not in the main concerned about who owns the hardware, only that their product is being used. In addition, not taking control over software that is … Continued
Is data critical in a BYOD environment?
As with security – and backup is of course a subset of security – when it comes to ensuring that the data residing on employee-sourced devices (ESDs), taking a data-centric approach pays dividends. Before thinking about backup of the company’s…
How does that work in a BYOD environment?
BYOD is yet another catalyst driving the re-shaping of traditional enterprise security models. Previously, the organisation was seen as crunchy: hardened on the outside but soft in the middle, with all the security focus at the perimeter. This model no…
How does implementing BYOD in your organisation affect regulatory compliance?
Permitting employees to bring their own mobile devices and then connect them to the corporate network is perhaps a more complex project than it at first appears. In addition to the essential data security and connectivity issues, the question of compliance is a concern. The issues at stake include data protection and data loss, employee … Continued
BYOD: Who’s Paying For All This And What Are The Options?
Perhaps surprisingly, one of the most complicated and fragmented aspects of the Bring Your Own Device phenomenon is the question of who pays and how. When IDG Connect surveyed IT decision-makers on their attitudes to BYOD for Fujitsu, this was the aspect that was clearly changing the fastest and showed significant variance by geography. Three … Continued
What Happens to the CIO in a Bring Your Own Device world?
For many years, the CIO cast a long shadow over the IT assets of an organisation. Until recently, managing IT was a matter of strict control: IT leaders wanted to have an identikit fleet of equipment, making it easier to…
Is BYOD HR’s Ace Card for Hiring?
In fast-moving segments, hiring has become a critical vector to the success or otherwise of organisations. Look at the US where the battle to release more H1B visas exercises the most senior management of Microsoft, Google and others. Or consider…
Like Having Productive, Happy Staff? Then Don’t Ignore BYOD
Remarkable new research suggests that BYOD policies make for more engaged and productive staff. The findings should act as a catalyst for more firms to press the green ‘go’ button on letting staff select their own devices for work use. Research conducted by IDG Connect on behalf of Fujitsu suggests that four in five IT … Continued
The key benefits of BYOD
Everyone we surveyed agreed that there are a lot of employee benefits to BYOD. Although increased employee satisfaction emerged as the main one. This was shortly followed by improved mobility and access anywhere, along with productivity gains. A separate research…
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How IT departments secure access to employee devices
By far the most popular way to protect non-corporate devices is via a password. Interestingly, nearly a third now use more biometrics.
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Financing models for mobile devices?
Over the 18 months the way the employees pay for mobile devices will likely change. At present subsidy schemes for employee chosen devices is the least likely financial model. This is due to double by the end of next year, whilst the number employees who pay for their own devices will decline.
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Why BYOD Won’t Go Away…and How You Can Manage the Consumerized Workplace
This infographic looks at the rise of mobile devices in the workplaces and Pros & Cons of this new trend.
Does BYOD Hold The Key To Building A Better, Happier Workforce?
A White Paper on the Bring Your Own Device phenomenon, based on research conducted by IDG Connect on behalf of Fujitsu
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10 Top Tips for Data Protection in the New Workplace
This white paper looks at the practical steps you can take at each of the four layers of workplace information security in the new mobile era.
Security
The Definitive Guide To The Mobility Revolution
This guide outlines the potential of mobile in the enterprise, how to deliver, and how it will change in the future.
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The Workplace is Changing: Are You Ready?
This white paper looks at how the entry of Gen Y into the workforce will affect the workplace.
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Unified Communications and Collaboration –The Questions You Need to Ask
This paper outlines key questions you need to ask to uncover the workplace communication and collaboration issues in your organization.
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