6:00 am. Your day starts early, and you roll out of bed. Check your phone, three emails with updates at work. Over breakfast, you adjust your work schedule on your laptop. On the way to work, stop by the coffee shop. Meanwhile, you receive a call from a team member there’s an urgent project update. Quickly, out comes the laptop, connect to wi-fi, adjust the figures on the quarterly report. So much accomplished and you haven’t even stepped foot in the office nor is it even 9 am yet!  

Never before have there been so many ways for us to get work done. Mobile devices and apps allow us to be productive from anywhere, at any time. While it’s great for the business—it complicates life for IT. 

More options mean a more diverse enterprise environment. And diversity means complexity. Now IT has to secure, provision, patch, update, repair, and maintain all the software and hardware currently in use across the workforce.

Welcome to the complex world left in the wake of technology’s promise of simplicity. 

The good news is that, with a proper understanding of the tools and innovations created and developed by developers and cloud providers, you can simplify the complexity of modern workforce demands if you strategize, build a plan, and partner with the right solutions. A comprehensive discussion about the myriad of choices, combinations, and deployments would be far too long for this article to cover, but one area that typically generates to most complexity are meeting demands of the user. 

By managing the way, users access the programs they need on the device they choose through a system that unifies and consolidates the way you can manage those endpoints can be a win-win for users and IT alike!

The Cloud

The easy fix it would seem to the issue of complexity is centralizing and standardizing an entire system on a single cloud platform. It’s also an unrealistic dream. Cost of subscription would only make it an unattainable pipe dream for most companies. 

The fact is technology is moving towards the cloud, and a sound plan should incorporate at least some aspects of the cloud. A majority of organizations find a winning strategy when they integrate multiple cloud platforms, often choosing a hybrid on-prem off-prem solution. The reason? Flexibility, pure and simple. One cloud platform might work well for content collaboration, but it doesn’t necessarily do what you need for delivering apps or services to distant users. 

For several years now, developers in the industry have focused on pushing the boundaries of virtualization and building toolsets that make the management of various services and devices easier to secure and operate. 

A secure digital workspace provides a single place for people to securely access all their apps, desktops, and data from anywhere.