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7 Tips for Choosing a Tablet PC Business



(Our Tech Blog) IT consumer market the world has been filled with a wide range of tablet PCs. The IT managers were faced with many choices of mobility devices that can support them, and it was obvious that the tablet computer can be more than just the end point.

Tablet computers can be useful tools to enhance employee productivity and collaboration that supports the business significantly.

Based on input from a Cisco customer, here are some points that need to be considered by the detikINET if you want to implement the use of tablet computers in the company, which is quoted on Tuesday (26/07/2011):

1. Security




When implementing the overall use of tablet computers in the enterprise, IT managers should consider how such devices can provide business class security - including encryption, authentication device, when connected in the network security of wired and wireless networks, and VPN connectivity.

2. Support to Collaboration




The tablet users to the company should be able to easily use collaboration applications, such as business-class voice communications, conferences in various forms, Instant Messaging (IM), presence, email, and collaboration in virtual teams from a single mobile device.

3. Enterprise Management & Administration




IT administrators can simplify administration and management of the use of tablet computers in the company by maintaining the use of internal communication systems used, ensuring interoperability with other devices, and provisioning to support scalability.

Based on security policy and the existing provisioning, IT managers also have the authority to allow or not allow users to download applications from a variety of marketplace.

4. Video Communication Interoperability




To support the communication business, employees need a tablet computer that not only supports mobile video used in the company's internal, but should also support interoperability with multi-vendor video solutions and video standards such as H.264.

5. Computational capabilities Strong


For business use, tablet computers must have the processing power that enables the use and sharing of data, as well as to create and edit content. With such power, users can experience an entirely through the use of desktop computer tablet.

6. Available on the 'cloud'




Desktop virtualization allows you to host applications in a flexible and secure software in the data center and use the network to deliver these applications as a service, anytime, anywhere. This virtualized environment can be passed seamlessly to mobile devices, including tablet computers.

7. Open Source



PC tablet for company to use an open platform, such as Android OS, can take advantage of the Android developer community that is growing to provide business-class productivity applications and even allow users to develop their own applications that are tailored to their needs.