Complexity Breeds Opportunity for a New Approach
The growth of consumerization and innovation around service-based delivery models have given rise to hybrid delivery environments spanning a number of platforms and devices. Many organizations continue to deploy and expand point solutions focused on addressing short-term, isolated needs without looking at the long-term picture.
Compounding the current complexity of workplace delivery is the fact that these disparate solutions, often acquired through several vendors, are deployed via a local device, on-premises data center, or hosted in a private, public, or personal cloud (see Figure 4). These solutions lack unity and centralized management. As long as companies address individual use cases, point solutions will continue to have traction, forcing organizations to support, manage, provision, and secure exceedingly complex application and desktop environments rather than seeking out long-term business and IT strategies.
While the IT vendor market remains hyper-focused on addressing one point at the expense of others, businesses still must consider a vast array of endpoint possibilities, application and desktop delivery models, as well as how to secure, maintain, and deliver a highly efficient and productive environment. In addition, businesses must also consider online file management solutions, collaboration tools, and unified communication strategies.
Focusing on a single endpoint strategy or delivery model to address an individual use case will only delay long-term success. Typically, these point solutions are independent of one another and thus fail to aggregate, making them increasingly difficult to orchestrate, resource, and manage. Since productive end-users have and will continue to consume multiple devices, IT must capture control, simplify management, and maintain security from within the data center.