Apple's iPad at work: Consumerization, security and support
Apple's iPad is making its way into a company near you, but there are a lot of crosscurrents in adoption. The productivity gains meet security worries.
Apple's iPad is making its way into a company near you, but there are a lot of crosscurrents in adoption.
Earlier this week, Citrix posted the results of a survey of 4,951 people. These people were Citrix customers who are interested in the iPad or using the device already.
Among the crosscurrents:
62 percent say they will buy the iPad for work. However, 57 percent said their companies aren't buying them. Talk about consumerization.
91 percent of respondents said they will use the iPad primarily for productivity applications and another 68.8 percent cited collaboration as the primary use.
Email was the primary use for the iPad by far (95.4 percent).
44.5 percent of respondents said the iPad is convenient for work, but they haven't used it a lot. 42 percent said that they are more productive and use the iPad daily.
72 percent of respondents said their companies will give them access to corporate resources on their personal iPads.
28 percent said their companies are shutting out the iPad. Of that group, here are the biggest reasons why the iPad is being shunned.