http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/it-shops-cant-keep-up-with-consumerization-of-it/ A SearchCIO.com blog Sat, 11 May 2013 17:51:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/it-shops-cant-keep-up-with-consumerization-of-it/#comment-786 Steveschmidt Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:55:53 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/?p=2040#comment-786 Linda, fantastic post on the challenges surrounding the consumerization of IT. I agree that, if managed correctly, this trend can certainly help make IT shops stronger and employees more productive. To ensure this does in fact take place, it’s important to arm businesses with the right tools to automate the complex processes around application lifecycle management, which includes software license management and optimization. With so many employees using their own unsupervised personal devices in the workplace these days (i.e., more than a third of workers polled by IDC use personally-owned PCs and nearly 10% use a personal tablet), CIOs need to make software licensing management and optimization a priority. When it comes to software application usage, the majority of CIOs don’t realize they’re either under-using/overspending or overusing/out-of-compliance. Flexera Software’s 2010 application usage management survey revealed that for 53% of enterprises, at least some of their software license spend is associated with applications that are overused and therefore out of compliance. And 85% of enterprises reported that at least some of their software license spend is associated with under-used software, or shelfware. As IT organizations strive to catch up and get ahead of the consumerization trend, they should preemptively deploy software license optimization solutions that are flexible enough to handle all the device and application types selected by end users.

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