This article seems to indicate that organizations are purchasing iPads without knowing what they will be used for.
I hope American companies haven't sunk to the "cool factor" in making business decisions, especially when they are also cutting personnel and salaries. I also hope nobody's pulling in a million dollar bonus for making the execs look trendy.
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After 35 odd years in IT and associated policy positions, for government agencies and for large and small private firms, I'd say the bulk of "flashy" technology is bought for the flash and dumped onto the IT group to "make it work" (whatever "work" might mean in this context).
This is the stated goal of the CIO of an intel agency. Note that security is not mentioned (though it is part of our Name). At GFirst this year (which is Government only) the presenters and audience all knew that iPads and iPhones were deployed to agencies because "the C-Suite insisted" and now we are slapping solutions on to make them work. iPretty doesn't have multiple users, so you can't seperate admin functions, manage centrally, etc. without separate "sit on top" 'ware from companies that didn't exist 4 years ago and may not exist next year. I also haven't been able to get an answer on what business function an iPad does that an HP Windows tablet doesn't do (Windows tablets can be managed through active directory and group policy). We've already spent years to develop enterprise security for Windows, now we have to spend years developing it for iPretty products and Apple has said that Federal is small enough that they don't want to work on hardening. I'm looking forward to Windows 8 phones, not that management will adopt them.
Great Article and nice topic was selected by you. No Matter whether Android phones or iPhone or iPads or other smart devices, they are all about apps. Thousands of latest apps for these platforms are launched every day, including productivity-boosting apps that are being adopted by companies. Though, if deployed randomly, apps can create major penalty to the enterprises. So there is no reason to ignore these points, and at least these points are may be helpful to learn how you can make sure that your ipad developments activities for your company are truly business assets and not risks.
How about a Device Management Strategy? I would have liked to see a recommendation that over say 20 devices, the company should have a central configuration management tool to avoid wasted time with individual configuration of groupwares, application sets, and security policies.
The Apple Configurator app for OS X (available on the Mac App store for Free) is what we used to set up 90 iPads with sequentially numbered names, network settings, security settings, etc.
This whole list reads like the decision has already been made to purchase tablets; now let's figure out what we'll do with them. Who gets them, what will they be used for, what apps will we run?
The approach should be to find existing problems or inefficiencies, then determine if tablets are the best solution among all reasonable options.
The approach should be to find existing problems or inefficiencies, then determine if tablets are the best solution among all reasonable options.
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