In companies, BYOD – Bring Your Own Device – is leaving no-one untouched. HR departments see it as a way to show how up to date they are and so attract young talent. Management hopes for more responsiveness and productivity among its staff through being permanently connected to the company, and even a reduction in IT costs. For the legal department, this opens up a series of questions about the increasingly hazy definition of the boundary between private and professional life, while the CIO frets about security and proper IT integration.
This new Report by Solucom about BYOD suggests several keys about the risks and benefits that can be expected and the solutions to have it implemented.
BYOD is not just a fad
Driven by consumerisation and the popularisation of Smartphones, BYOD has moved beyond being a passing fad. Seeking standardised user experience and quality, employees are asking that all obstacles be removed.
So most companies are getting interested in the issue, even if over 50% of those we asked for this Report are only at the investigation stage. For 40% of the companies we surveyed the main brake on BYOD lies in legal and HR issues, far ahead of the estimated cost (20%) and security questions (9%). In fact, the virtual absence of jurisprudence and a legal framework that is still unclear make widespread deployment uncertain, while solutions to manage the technical problems of security are already available.
Cost reduction is not a real motive for turning to BYOD
BYOD had suggested the promise of savings in the budget of IT departments. In fact, the initial feedback has been more nuanced. In most cases, additional costs may even arise for updating infrastructure, finance in part the terminals, define a legal framework and more. Savings are possible, but only in certain very favourable situations: IT and applications modernity, well integrated security, users' appetite etc.
"Add Your Own Device" rather than "Bring Your Own Device"?
To begin with, it is appropriate to focus on initiatives deployed on well-targeted groups and uses. The first demand of BYOD is often to have additional access to messaging and calendar services from Smartphones or managers' personal tablets. 80% of the projects we surveyed are about this. So the personal terminal comes as a supplement to the professional one; we can speak of "Add Your Own Device" rather than real BYOD.
A necessity: to adopt a BYOD policy
Beyond the buzzword, users' appetite is already there. Experience shows that refusing BYOD leads to the appearance of insecure workarounds that are ultimately more costly. CIOs must provide solutions adapted to the situation, and so in fact have a key role to play:
it is for them to position and illuminate BYOD policy in their companies.
Find the entire Report on our website.
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