“A briefing by Gartner on the management of employee owned devices within corporate circles ‘affirms the strong opportunity of Apple in the enterprise,’ a market where 91 percent of the Fortune 500 are testing or deploying iOS devices,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppelInsider.
“That observation, by RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky, was made in response to Gartner’s presentation, which estimated that 40 percent of organizations already support employee owned mobile devices,” Dilger reports.
“Gartner called the trend toward ‘bring your own devices’ as an ‘unstoppable train coming down the tracks,’ noting that ‘C-level executives’ have opened the door to employee-owned mobile devices and that younger employees ‘prefer consumer technologies like iPhones and iPads over enterprise-provided alternatives,'” Dilger reports.
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