Creating a modern and well-managed digital workspace
Digital transformation investments have often majored on externally-facing systems such as customer engagement, but employees remain critical so must also be ‘digitally-enabled’. With this in mind, modern working practices, and the systems and services that are key to employee empowerment and productivity come into sharp focus.
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Desktop Virtualisation
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Mobility Management Coming of Age
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Device Proliferation and Data Fragmentation
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Unintended Enterprise Mobile Errors
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Storage Anywhere and Everywhere
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Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:
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Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:
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Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:
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Mobile solutions in enterprises pay:
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User driven IT adoption – Problem or opportunity?
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Click to call
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Email and collaboration options for MSPs
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Email is so last century
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Are you a filer or a piler?
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Data Entry and Device Control
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Windows 8 and the ‘Dad test’ stunts
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Windows 8 Perspectives – The power user and the teenager
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Data fragmentation challenges restrict business flexibility
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Siloed approach to IT security increases business risk
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Analyst Headlines: Securing the Access
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Desktop Virtualization
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Working smarter, not harder
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SaaS based Email and Office Productivity
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SaaS based Email and Office Productivity Tools
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The Consumerisation of IT (Slides)
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The Consumerisation of IT
With so many people excited about ‘bring your own device’ and easily accessible cloud services,[...]
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Use of social media by analysts and analyst relations professionals
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User Virtualization
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The Business Information Illusion
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Rumours of the PC’s death are greatly exaggerated
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The Co-operative on virtualisation & Windows 7
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Apples and Oranges – Are people really comparing like with like on the question of Mac versus Windows?
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Consumerism and productivity Part 2: How to deal with employees’ devices in the workplace
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Information is a right, not a privilege
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