The Consumerization of Corporate IT
One of the biggest headaches that corporate IT has to deal with these days is “consumerization.” The consumerization of IT happens in two ways. First of all, consumers are using more and more IT in their personal lives. Consumer user-interfaces and product capabilities are in general more advanced than their enterprise equivalents; they employ better interfaces and more advanced data models. They work on mobile devices and are social media enabled. The technology, capabilities, and ease of use or consumer products are causing...
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Although it’s hard to remember now, telephone calls outside of your local area used to be very expensive, and international calling was ruinous. In 1950, a 15-minute call from New York to LA was over $30 (in 2001 dollars). Calls to London were 10 times that rate. The recent revolution in telephone pricing and capability is the result of a technical innovation called VoIP that made it possible to place calls over the Internet, bypassing phone companies altogether. With thousands of VoIP start-ups offering a dizzying array of hardware,...
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