As the technology advances, it not only helps the run the business in conventional methods by increasing the productivity but also changes the nature of businesses in ways that never been thought before. Just imagine years ago, people never thought of putting a computer in the middle of everything, nowadays, can anyone imagine running a business without a computer?
In time, mainframes involved into desktop PCs, PCs are gradually replaced by laptops, why not tablets would replace them all?
How can we use these devices more productively and make a them a part of our daily routine?
Users of tablets usually agrees the fact that these devices quite easy to get used to. Especially, mailing, browsing experiences offer a great user friendly interface. However working on spreadsheets, word processors, enterprise applications etc havent been proven to make the life easier.
Let’s try to list of devices, applications and peripherals for business users:
Desktop or laptop PCs, Blackberry or other type of smartphones, telephones, mail clients, spreadsheet , word processor, web browser, enterprise applications such as ERP, CRM etc.
It seems that a tablet PCs can replace all above applications. Given that sufficient security measures are properly taken.
We might still consider providing a desktop and notebook computer in the office for advanced tasks and duties, for travelling though, a tablet pc would offer great benefits.
Travelling only with a properly chosen tablet PC would offer below tasks:
- Email client
- Web browsing
- Access to company intranet
- Access to corporate applications
- Telephone (some tablets offer this feature)
- Constant Internet access
- Spreadsheet
- Word processors
- Presentation tools (need for a VGA-out)
- Vidyo client for attending company video conference sessions
- Webex client
- Querying and viewing corporate data.
In summary, industry have already accepted the fact that the future of personal computing is tablet PCs. May be business should also start to think about exploiting these possibilities. Security concerns still remains the same, some further developments are definitely needed. Otherwise, tablets will not offer an environment for data entry and active usage just merely used for viewing corporate data.
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