Logicalis Brings Tomorrow’s Workplace to Today’s Businesses
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Logicalis Brings Tomorrow’s Workplace to Today’s Businesses
~ survey shows efficiencies still to be made using collaboration, mobility and communications technologies ~
Sydney November 15, 2011 – A survey by Logicalis, the storage, security, server and IP networking integrator, shows Australian organisations are lagging when it comes to offering advanced communications and collaboration technologies, despite employee desire for workplace technologies to be extended beyond the corporate network.
Logicalis’ ‘Tomorrow's Workplace’ survey was conducted as an insight into how organisations are collaborating today, which challenges are being addressed and how efficiently workplaces are using communications technology. Respondents from 135 organisations were surveyed.
The Logicalis ‘Tomorrow’s Workplace’ survey shows a high level of adoption in standard audio-conferencing (62%) and web conferencing / document-sharing (54%), however, one in three organisations (32%) have only email, IM and basic presence. Just 14.4% of respondents cite using advanced presence (application, device, and location awareness), and surprisingly, only half the respondents (49%) indicated they had mobile access to email. Slightly fewer (37%) could access the same collaboration tools off-site as in the workplace.
Aligning business and IT, and meeting end-user expectations were the two most critical business challenges being addressed through collaboration solutions. This reflects the impact of technology consumerisation and the increasing pressure on IT departments to offer greater flexibility to end-users - without compromising security and compliance.
There was broad agreement that "the business IT experience should be as good as what staff enjoy at home", the foundation of Logicalis' Tomorrow's Workplace initiative - and that collaboration helps make staff more productive. There was less consensus, however, on the ability to measure the Return on Investment of collaboration.
While one third of respondents has no desktop virtualisations plans, more than a half has either deployed or plan to deploy virtual desktop infrastructure. Three quarters of respondents (73%) plan to procure tablets - or already do. However, over half (57%) of organisations don't have a mobility strategy. Of those organisations which already procure tablets, 38% do not have a mobility strategy. More than half the organisations in the survey allow personal smart-phones or tablets in the workplace, with almost half providing basic instructions. Some comments indicated that respondents were discouraged or limited to seniority or position.
“We are working with a number of progressive organisations, such as GPT and Australian Radio Network who are using technology to redefine their version of the workplace. For the most part though, there’s quite a difference between what’s available and what’s being used by Australian organisations when it comes to mobility, communications and collaborations technology,” said Oliver Descoeudres, Marketing Director at Logicalis. “Tomorrow’s Workplace is where most companies need to be to remain competitive, and that means providing staff with the right technologies to deliver results.”
Detailed results and graphs can be found: http://www.au.logicalis.com/news-and-events/news-and-announcements/2011/14-november-2011.aspx
For further information about Logicalis’ Tomorrow’s Workplace initiative, please download this free White Paper or to find out more about Logicalis’ collaboration technologies and workshops, please visit http://www.au.logicalis.com.
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services founded on a superior breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications & collaboration; data centre; and professional and managed services.
Logicalis Group employs over 1,900 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 5,000 corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft.
The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues in excess of $1 billion, from operations in the UK, US, Germany, South America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of the leading IT and Communications service providers, specialising in the areas of advanced technologies and services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, a $3.7 billion revenue business listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges. For more information, visit www.logicalis.com.
For further information, please contact:
Jo Balfour
Progressiva
Tel: 0405 542 018
Email: jobalfour@progressiva.com.au
