A sign of things to come....
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Clorox cleans out BlackBerries in favor of iPhones, Android devices
Apple iPads are growing in popularity among workers, but IT managers are slow to embrace them
By Lucas Mearian
April 7, 2011 08:58 AM ETComments (13)Recommended (16)
Computerworld - SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- When Ralph Loura took over as CIO of Clorox a year ago, the company was standardized on clunky Windows 2000 desktop computers and Blackberry mobile phones.
"Employee satisfaction with the IT team was not great," he said during a keynote speech yesterday at the SNW conference here.
"If you believe demographic studies, the workforce in their 20s and 30s isn't going to accept black corporate PCs with black corporate mobile phones and not be allowed to run Facebook or Angry Bird apps," he said.
Loura was among many CIOs and IT managers at SNW who said they're facing the same issue -- employees want to use mobile technology at work, leaving IT with the job of ensuring that the devices and the data on them remain secure.
For Loura, that meant revamping the company's IT infrastructure while leveraging public and private clouds whenever possible.
The effort to enable a more mobile workforce becomes more a challenge at a company -- like Clorox -- whose 8,300 person workforce is split evenly between "information" workers and plant workers.
Loura so far has replaced 6,000 desktop and tower computers with lightweight HP laptops, and got rid of company-issued Blackberries while letting workers choose between an iPhone or Android or Window Phone 7-powered smartphone. The company has issued 2,000 smartphones, 92% of which are iPhones. About 6% of the smartphones chosen were Android-based while 2% were Windows Phone 7 devices.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...ckBerries_in_favor_of_iPhones_Android_devices
OTB
Clorox cleans out BlackBerries in favor of iPhones, Android devices
Apple iPads are growing in popularity among workers, but IT managers are slow to embrace them
By Lucas Mearian
April 7, 2011 08:58 AM ETComments (13)Recommended (16)
Computerworld - SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- When Ralph Loura took over as CIO of Clorox a year ago, the company was standardized on clunky Windows 2000 desktop computers and Blackberry mobile phones.
"Employee satisfaction with the IT team was not great," he said during a keynote speech yesterday at the SNW conference here.
"If you believe demographic studies, the workforce in their 20s and 30s isn't going to accept black corporate PCs with black corporate mobile phones and not be allowed to run Facebook or Angry Bird apps," he said.
Loura was among many CIOs and IT managers at SNW who said they're facing the same issue -- employees want to use mobile technology at work, leaving IT with the job of ensuring that the devices and the data on them remain secure.
For Loura, that meant revamping the company's IT infrastructure while leveraging public and private clouds whenever possible.
The effort to enable a more mobile workforce becomes more a challenge at a company -- like Clorox -- whose 8,300 person workforce is split evenly between "information" workers and plant workers.
Loura so far has replaced 6,000 desktop and tower computers with lightweight HP laptops, and got rid of company-issued Blackberries while letting workers choose between an iPhone or Android or Window Phone 7-powered smartphone. The company has issued 2,000 smartphones, 92% of which are iPhones. About 6% of the smartphones chosen were Android-based while 2% were Windows Phone 7 devices.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...ckBerries_in_favor_of_iPhones_Android_devices
