Q: To what extent do you agree with the following statement about tablet device usage?
The fact that more than half of respondents indicated agreement with this statement foreshadows a sea change in IT's role to CBR contributor Niel Nickolaisen; "Several years ago, the notion of employees selecting and using their own devices to access and use ERP, CRM, logistics, and other business applications would have been heresy. Today, some of us are already doing this with a whole bunch of others planning to do so in the near future. It could be that the storm is already here. If this is indeed our future, one of our traditional IT roles will change: we will get out of the end-user device business. And if this is our future, we will be asked to take on new roles: securely connecting our computing resources to a wide range of devices that support both mobile employees and customers and depend increasingly more on wireless networks."
* Excerpted from "A Storm is Coming In" (
), Cutter Benchmark Review, Vol. 11 No. 5