What is your New Year’s resolution for 2022? Well, it is that time of year again! My resolutions are not necessarily new, but a continuation of several that I have made in prior years. Eat healthier foods, lose weight, and save money are the ones that immediately come to mind. Another best practice that I started several years ago was to adopt a passwordless authentication initiative for all my internet connected personal devices.
This gives new meaning to the term “wired and tired.” A brand-new survey from Ivanti finds that IT professionals have never been considered more critical to a company’s operations and success, and yet in spite of – or perhaps because of – that pressure, they’re facing a mountain of obstacles and unrelenting fatigue.
Over the last year, labour shortages and supply chain challenges have created a perfect storm, creating a business landscape marked by strained resources and little room for error. The 2021 holiday season ramped up pressure on businesses that are already struggling to keep up.
The two words, “Enterprise Architecture”, elicit various reactions and have no standard definition in the dictionary or technical manual— everything from “we tried that and it’s too much work” to “we need that!” to “what does it mean to have an effective EA practice”. Trial and error also taught us it’s possible (even easy) to do Enterprise Architecture incorrectly!
Validating for us our outstanding portfolio, vision, and ecosystem in the Unified Endpoint Management market, Ivanti was recently named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2021 report. Furthermore, Ivanti was noted as the only vendor in the market that could provide a fully integrated UEM, ESM, and End-User Experience Management (EUEM) capability.
Two-thirds of US white-collar employees are working from home some or all of the time, according to a September 2021 Gallup survey – and of those, 91 percent hope to continue to do so even after the pandemic. In this Everywhere Workplace environment, a “bring your own device” (BYOD) policy is an appealing proposition for employees and IT departments alike, leading to an average annual savings of $350 per employee and a 34 percent increase in productivity.
The last time Forrester published their Wave report for Enterprise Service Management in 2019, the world had never heard of COVID-19 and workers were, for the most part, still going to offices. IT and other lines of businesses had a basic handle on servicing their employees’ needs. Today, about 2 years after the first COVID-19 cases started showing up, the world is a very different place.
