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When it comes to tablet devices, one additional consideration that needs to be made is in regards to the applications that run on them. Tablet aficionados use applications in their free time and enjoy benefits like ease-of-use, appealing visual design, intuitive navigation, streamlined features, and gamification. Many of the best and most popular consumer applications run smoothly and offer complete user-friendliness.
The experience that leisure tablet users have with these applications shapes their expectations of business applications, a movement known as “the consumerization of IT in the Enterprise” (CITE)1. Enterprise tablet users frequently presume that business applications will be simple, visually stimulating, perhaps even fun to use right out of the box! Think of it as using something like Angry Birds for the enterprise.
Case-in-Point: Business Intelligence on a Tablet Device
Let’s examine one business-use scenario for tablet devices. Like tablets, business intelligence (BI) is a key trend in enterprises. Not only is big data growing in size, scope, and importance, but it is also impacting a larger sector of employees. Nowadays, it’s as if “every worker is a knowledge worker.”1
The BI trend is a perfect complement to the mobile tablet trend. As it becomes increasingly important to organizations, there’s also an expanding need for access to BI. Once an organization commits to a tablet strategy, their approach to mobile BI follows quickly on the heels of that decision. Enterprises will be mulling over many of the same considerations about security, support, permissions and licenses, ease-of-access, and so on.
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1 - http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jan2011/ca20110110_985915.htm
