Bring Your Own Device: Harnessing Employee Choice With Cloud-Based, Browser-Enabled Solutions

Employees are already bringing their own high-tech devices to work, hoping to use familiar technology to be more productive. Encouraging that trend can slash IT costs, raise morale, boost productivity and help your company project a cutting-edge image to customers. To benefit from the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement, companies should look to the cloud for critical needs, opting for browser-enabled solutions that will work on any device instead of ones that need expensive and time-consuming testing and support every time an employee buys the latest and greatest gadget from the Internet.

Introduction

The flood has already begun. Every day, more employees bring their own smartphones, tablets and laptops into their offices, hoping to become more productive and add more value to their companies. While IT departments sometimes look at the BYOD revolution with concern over having to support more devices, stopping that flow of new technology could do more harm than good.

A recent study by Forrester Research shows that employees are choosing slightly more than half of all the high-tech tools they use – either buying products themselves or choosing from a list of smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers approved by their employers. If you take desktops out of that mix, employees are selecting 85 percent of the devices they are using.

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