When it comes to Digital Employee Experience (DEX), the key to success is treating it as a journey, not a destination. Organizations need to deliver outcomes and value quickly, while simultaneously building the maturity of their DEX initiatives over time. The journey involves deliberate planning, with clearly defined milestones and goals along the way.

The promise of Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is deeply compelling - by virtualizing desktops, businesses can simultaneously give employees more flexibility and improve their productivity, while also reducing costs. However, despite significant VDI investment, too many organizations are still unable to realize these promised benefits.

In an organization driven by people and patient-centricity, Philips understands that delivering the best experiences for their customers starts with providing positive experiences for their employees. When their employees are supported and engaged, they are better equipped to deliver top-quality care outcomes for their customers.

Nexthink’s industry-leading Experience 24 Events in Boston and London brought together over 1000 IT professionals dedicated to accelerating the value of strategic adoption of DEX. A hot topic was the growing recognition that traditional Observability solutions (APM’s and other high-cardinality technology monitoring solutions) while necessary, are insufficient to solve the full, end-to-end visibility of how employees are experiencing the totality of their web applications.

Managing IT operations in today's digital workplace is increasingly complex. The lack of visibility, the intricacies of modern systems, the rise of remote work, and the consumerization of applications all contribute to the challenges faced by IT teams. According to Gartner, 56% of IT leaders cite budget restrictions, 51% mention internal resistance to change, and 44% highlight talent issues as significant obstacles.

Employee productivity necessarily depends on the performance and availability of all needed IT technologies, from devices and networks to applications and collaboration tools. Frequently overlooked is the critical dimension of employee adoption; the process of rapidly getting employees to where they can always appropriately use the technologies chosen by their company, with minimal to no friction.

This headline is maybe a little surprising, even for Nexthinkers. We’re known for being conservative and letting our work do the talking. Nexthink first created the DEX category, then rolled out the world’s most capable and holistic DEX platform, and then delivered year on year as the most successful DEX vendor in the market. Something to do with our Swiss heritage perhaps – an emphasis on diligence and execution, rather than on singing our own praises.

This headline is maybe a little surprising, even for Nexthinkers. We’re known for being conservative and letting our work do the talking. At Nexthink, we first created the DEX category, then rolled out the world’s most capable and holistic DEX platform, and then delivered year on year as the most successful DEX vendor in the market. Something to do with our Swiss heritage perhaps – an emphasis on diligence and execution, rather than on singing our own praises.

Optimal productivity requires an employee's ability to accomplish their tasks and processes in as efficient a manner as possible, with a minimum of “digital friction”. To minimize employee digital friction, you must understand the complete employee experience situation - where the opportunities are for improvement, how to identify and replicate best-practices, and where to focus for optimal impact.

In any significant journey, there are milestones that prompt reflection—moments that make you pause and consider how far you've come and where you began. This week, the release of Gartner’s first-ever Magic Quadrant for Digital Employee Experience Tools, naming Nexthink as a Leader, is one such moment for all of us here.