This report extract from the Corporate Executive Board, presents key facts and figures on the take up of consumer technology in the workplace. 

Employees are flooding IT departments with requests to connect their personal smartphones to the company IT infrastructure. Disregarding the real productivity benefits from connected employees, until now many IT departments have been too concerned with security and control risks. 

The numbers of employees using some form of mobile technology while working has soared. The benefits to the organisation are well documented; employees are more contactable, will probably extend their working days and should be more productive. 

This Tech Guide discusses mobile strategies in the enterprise: manageability, cost, business benefits and - most important - how employees are dictating the need for it. 

Ensure traveling employees are productive while you control costs and security, with an enterprise mobility strategy. 

Through complete end-to-end insight into the factors that impact company performance, you can significantly reduce costs, enhance profitability, increase customer satisfaction and gain competitive advantage. 

Allowing employees to use their own devices may increase the overall productivity and performance of your organization. Access this exclusive resource to learn how supporting a range of endpoint devices is the right choice for your organization and how desktop virtualization is a practical method for supporting this initiative. 

This short podcast discusses controlling IT costs and using security as an enabler for innovation. Listen in as an IBM Security expert suggests ways to ensure the security of information without inhibiting employee productivity. 

SharePoint 2010 is the next step for companies that want to provide their employees the tools and information they need to be effective and efficient in the workplace. Learn the changes and improvements made to the six functional areas of SharePoint 2010 and how they come together to benefit your organization. 

Storing files centrally at HQ causes slow file access performance for branch office users. Synchronized (mirrored) file servers with version conflict control is an ideal solution to enable fast LAN speed file access for all employees. Try out this free trial software to learn more about your data solutions. 

Kronos Workforce Central enables companies to reduce payroll error, reduce human resources management time and cost, and increase employee productivity by providing a centralized system for managing all the facets of the employee lifecycle.The solution can also increase visibility into labor issues and costs for improved decision making. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now.