“More than 60 percent of respondents said they were prepared to purchase an iPad for work. Company purchases of iPads came to 43 percent. [Citrix reports], ‘The number of people depending on the iPad and using it daily (46 percent) is remarkable given it’s only been on the market for 7 months. In fact 13 percent say the iPad is mission critical for their job. If a business can increase employee productivity and respond faster to customers, the payback can be significant.'”
Morgenstern reports, “The look on the upside is revealing: 88 percent said the iPad increases the means to work remotely, whether at home or “anywhere.” A close second place was the iPad’s help in increasing productivity and computing satisfaction.”
Read more in the full article here.
all of which is true for the Mac too
I won’t leave home without mine!
I work for a hospital system ( about 8,000 employees not counting Doctors ) and we have purchased a new HIS that will be installed in 2011 system wide and go live January 1, 2012. This fully integrated system includes native support for iOS devices for all practitioners as well as Allied Health professionals.
Until then we are stuck on thin client Windows systems. One more year.
Think of all the games you can play during worktime
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The ability to simply walk up to somebody and instantly share your work is priceless.
Big, Full Page ad in the LA Times today for Citrix. “Can your iPad run Windows? With Citrix, it can.”
kind of sad to have to run that crap Windows OS. Oh well.
iPadsAtWork.com
We still can’t go through our proxy server for some reason. Everything else is fine, but IOS is not.
@jjjj
It’s especially sad when you actually try to use W$ and it becomes apparent that it is totally not designed, by any stretch of the imagination, as a touch-friendly OS.
there would be much mre benefits to using iPads if the app suppliers made iPad-iOS-based apps as frontends for their software. Let’s hope that’s happening and the use if W$ is not required mostly.