Posted on 12/09/2015 9:49:24 PM PST by Swordmaker
Apple devices are becoming an integral part of today's enterprise environment, with nearly all enterprise IT professionals saying that their internal teams provide support for Mac, iPhone and iPad devices.
This is among the findings of a survey amongst IT professionals by Apple device management company JAMF Software. It shows that 96 percent of teams support Macs, 84 percent iPhones and 81 percent iPads.
The survey shows that user preference is the number one reason for the increased adoption of Mac (81 percent) and iOS devices (84 percent). As organizations continue to implement user choice programs, more and more employees are choosing Apple devices for work because they're what they prefer in their everyday lives. Secondary factors driving Apple adoption in the enterprise include security advantages and increased productivity features, among others. IT professionals surveyed also agree that Mac (75 percent) and iOS (82 percent) devices offer more security compared to other computer platforms.
There have been increases in the usage of Mac (68 percent), iPhone (46 percent), and iPad (36 percent) devices in 2015. Macs are easier to manage than other computer platforms according to 64 percent, and 67 percent say that Mac will cut into the PC's market share over the next three years. In addition 78 percent of those surveyed say that the iPhone and iPad are easier to manage than other mobile device platforms
Big companies are seeing the effect of using Apple hardware on their bottom lines too. "Every Mac that we buy is making and saving IBM money," says Fletcher Previn, IBM's VP of Workplace-as-a-Service, speaking at the 2015 JAMF Nation User Conference.
"This research highlights what we at JAMF have been seeing for some time: user preference is driving the rise of Apple in enterprise and education", says Dean Hager, CEO of JAMF Software. "While a lot of the attention of Apple's success has been on its iOS devices, the survey results also show that Mac will continue to replace the PC at an unprecedented rate because it empowers users to be creative, productive, and happier in their jobs".
The full Managing Apple Devices in the Enterprise survey report for 2015 is available to download from the JAMF website.
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And all of these iToys get connected to Dell or HP servers running Linux or Windows Server.....
Where the real work gets done
Make that imbecilic-level...
So central database of homedepots Point of Sale system is going to be stored on some clerks iPhone?
Hmmm, does not sound like a secure and safe solution to me
Ah -- so you understand server workload better than IBM?
They are talking about desktops, not servers.
They are not replacing their data centers with iPads, they are replacing their desktops with iPads or iPhones or whatever because the worker already has one, so they don’t even have to purchase it.
IMHO “the enterprise” is an extremely pretentious-sounding expression.
No, arl295, they are replacing desktops with Macs. . . and they are purchasing them. That's what it says in the article.
IBM is installing 2,000 Macs per week and has already installed 200,000.
If you open up the average $700 corporate user PC’s case, you’ll find that it’s basically an empty sheet metal shell. You’ll find some whack-spec ATX-like motherboard the size of a steno pad with masked off PCIe headers, no expansion cards installed, empty drive bays aside from some cheap 250gb HDD, a single stick of 4GB or 8gb RAM, and maybe a thin laptop-type DVD-ROM that nobody will ever use. Most places are getting by with no network hardware outside of a WiFi Router so the only thing hooked up to a corporate PC is a video monitor, mouse/keyboard, and AC power cable. Possibly a Lightning/USB cable connected to a USB port that’s recharging the user’s personal smartphone. You couldn’t expand it even if you needed to.
People are instead using their own BYOD non-MSFT tablets and phones to Skype & IM with their coworkers. Email is quickly becoming the lamest way to communicate thanks to social media making its way into corporate web-based groupware. The laser printers in the office have all basically been dimmed out in power saving mode for the last five years. Nobody can remember printing jack squat much less remember the last time they heard the HP LaserJet come out of sleep mode.
Most users still using a Windows PC are issued the bare minimum life support system for Win7 or freebie Win10 upgrade, and there’s really no compelling reason to run Windows at all as a desktop client in an emergent age of web based apps. The workplace is the only place a great many PC users even touch a PC anymore. MSFT’s Windows OS sales prove it. That’s why they’re giving it away free to the planet because gee, what corporate slug PC didn’t come with Win7 installed anyway?
I think an honest appraisal here is that the concept of the PC is croaking and it’s even starting to drag down Microsoft’s office suite along with it. Their back office server suites will be all that’s left and even more vulnerable to RedHat. By then, they’ll have lost mainstream visibility and will be heading the same direction where Novell Netware ended up. Microsoft can’t be liking this which is why they’re making comical gestures like copy-catting Apple Stores and making their own laptops and tablets — which, if you haven’t been keeping up, are a pretty dubious competitor to Apple iPads, iMacs, and MacBooks just like Microsoft’s miserable-assed Windows phones and Zunes were to iPhone and iPod. They just don’t have it in them.
My prophecy is that the last things Microsoft will have is Xbox, MS Excel, Visio, and MS SQL Server ... and the server versions needed to host it. So many workplaces are still getting by fine with Office 2003 and SQL 2008. That’s why Microsoft is hawking MS Office 365 for basically as much as it costs to buy a single lunch for team members on a group ‘team building’ outing.
The PC is the final piece of IT crap that needs to be replaced by something else. Its not quite there yet with any other solution, but the writing is on the wall that the workspace of the 1990s is being made obsolete by the people who work there choosing something different and doing it with their own wallets.
I’m by no means calling Microsoft dead — they have lots of capital and time to think up a good plan if they get some crackerjack visionaries in there — but right now we’re at the point where there’s not as many people who care if MSFT lives or dies as there were ten years ago when their bleeding began.
If you have any brilliant ideas on how to reverse Microsoft’s perilous position, you really ought to apply there. They’ll listen to anything at this point. Apple, however... Dang, son: Try to get a parking space within 100 yards of an Apple store this time of year. That’ll tell you something right there.
Wow, what an insulting post
I guess Fanboys still find the need to defend all mighty Apple....
Just like the liberals have to defend Obama to the death
In the corporate environment, the end point doesn’t matter, whether it is a Mac, Dell Desktop, HP Workstation, iPad, Android Smartphone, it has no value. It is just a tool, like a drill or wrench, it does what it needs to do. If it breaks, you fix or replace it.
In the corporate datacenter, you have rows of racks of Dell or HP servers, running Linux or Windows server or VM ware or whatever.
I hope you guys don’t think the “cloud” involves a real cloud or something.....
JAMF survey, ha, next week the DNC will release a survey about how great Hillary is and that she is going to win the presidency with a 99% of the vote....
Umm, the desktop is dead, why keep supporting it when a smartphone or tablet can do it easier and more efficient?
Not really. It's an Economic designator which distinguishes a particular class of businesses from all other classes of businesses.
The Enterprise: consider it an organization which meets most of the following criteria:
- A business which offers products or services across multiple geographic locales.
- A business which as a business strategy involving discrete departments or organizational units, each with their own objectives.
- A business which has multiple components, but while each organizational unit of the business may have individual budgets, collectively, the business' financial resources are shared.
- A business were those individual units' Information (KPIs) are shared across organizational units.
- The business has a diverse set of clientele which they cater to. Despite offering different products or services, the business caters to these clients as a singular organization.
That sounds pretty complicated, doesn't it? Here's another definition: a huge business.
An Enterprise level business will have several clients with physical locations numbering in the thousands, whom serve hundreds of thousands of customers on a weekly basis, or have thousands of employees, some of whom will never cross paths even once during their entire careers. Another "symptom" of what makes a business an enterprise is the inevitable large bureaucracy involved when an organization reaches this scale.
Go ahead, try doing what I do on a 27” iMac, with a 24” display next to it, on your phone. Or even your tablet.
There are lots of times where there is no substitute for screen real estate.
Who is The KG9 Kid insulting, Arl? You? Nameless IT department heads? Can you isolate the insults in KG9's post? I really cannot find any.
I only see him making some very cogent observations about the WINDOWS platform in the office environment. Are you by chance the old PC Character from the "I'm a PC"/"I'm a Mac" commercials? If not, how can you or anyone be insulted by The KG9 Kid's comments? The computers he was discussing are inanimate objects without feelings to be offended or insulted. The Operating system is not even a physical object. . . and a company like Microsoft has no heart to bleed or feel wounded. Where is the insult? Are you so invested in your choice of platform you have become personified by your choice of computer and operating system? Is that why you're insulted?
I counted three implicit insults in your post targeting Mac/Apple users.
Your attempts at raising a forest of strawman arguments for you to easily shoot down is failing miserably. You'll find it doesn't work too well around here, my FRiend. The article did not make the points you keep raising nor have the posters you are trying to put words into the mouths of. We don't fall for logical fallacies too often on FreeRepublic and especially in Apple threads.
So everyone needs a 27” Display with a second 24” display next to it?
Do on the road sales teams need this as well?
Sounds too bulky to carry around
IBM, which has deployed Macs and iOS devices in the hundreds of thousands to its employees as found that unlike Windows computers which have required one IT professional for every 70 Windows using employee, they are supporting 5,300 Apple Mac users with ONE (1) IT professional. That is unheard of in the IT world. . . but Apple Mac IT people have been telling them for years it is possible. It is easier and more efficient to use Apple products, arl.
No insult intended, truly; I’m pretty agnostic. I run a Mac in a .NET development group with Azure hosted release management, build servers, and Visual Studio Test Manager servers. I’m a software guy, not a hardware guy.
I just think it’s painfully obvious that Microsoft is flailing at continuing their business model and having not much to show presently regarding initiatives designed to get traction in either supporting or supplanting it.
Why, just look at the datacenter level changes they’ve just revealed in Server 2016: *Per-core* licensing. How’s that news being regarded at your workplace? I mean, it’s probably time they did so, but what’s it really do for the customer? Why upgrade?
Like I said, people are getting by fine with pretty old versions of Microsoft software that are still supported. That’s an ongoing revenue stream problem, isn’t it? Microsoft’s only recourse is to break them and force them into a dubious ‘upgrade’. Case in point: In my group, we once bought into Silverlight and ran with it for a few years until MSFT pulled the plug by deprecating it. I’d have been more pissed if it weren’t for the fact that Silverlight sucked so hard in the first place.
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