Does Mobility Make Business Better, or Just More Complicated?

A year ago, Yahoo ordered that employees who worked from home come back to the office. HP followed suit in October 2013, quietly requiring most employees to work in-office again.

Although both decisions were prompted by a need to keep employees fully engaged at work, working in the office and being tied to one computer is not the norm any more. In fact, there is growing diversity in the workplace as jobs that were once not “connected” to applications or networks now are. For example:

• Oil field — Technicians receive job tickets, record field notes, file paperwork, and even create customer invoices from mobile tablets.
• Retail floor — “Floor” managers don’t stay in the back room any more. Instead, they are on the store floor, interacting with customers and responding to staff needs immediately with the aid of customized mobile apps.
• Research lab — Scientists can access global databases of tissue samples, aggregate patient data, and collaborate on solutions with colleagues half a world away through mobile videoconferencing.

Increasingly, both office and non-office workers use direct connections and sophisticated mobile technology to do their work more efficiently — away from the office.

This represents a fundamental change to not just how we work, but how we view work, and it comes with fundamental changes in the expectations of users:

• Users work with a vast array of devices, from laptops to tablets to smartphones.
• Administrators need to manage all those effectively — and respond quickly to changing needs and changing devices.
• As devices are replaced, upgraded, and swapped for the latest versions, IT administrators have to enable updates in a timely way to keep everyone in sync.

Even if you’re at a company that works in-office like Yahoo, you’re more and more likely to have to move devices in and out of service frequently. Big Bang’s UIU is here to help you do that efficiently.

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