Consumerization of IT

By Osterman Research

A major trend impacting corporate IT departments is the “Consumerization of IT”: employees use their own tools – or the same tools they employ personally – in the context of their work alongside the systems that IT has deployed.

Consumer-focused technologies that are deployed by employees can provide tremendous value to any business and can provide IT organizations with more functionality than they can afford or are willing to deploy. However, consumer technologies must be appropriately managed in order to satisfy corporate security, compliance and other requirements. This means integrating consumer technologies into the existing IT fabric in order to achieve the greatest possible synergies between consumer-focused and IT-deployed technologies.

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