That presents an IT department with several new challenges, from support to sensitive data protection. Your employees use Dropbox, email, WeTransfer, etc., to send their data. These applications are a real pain to your IT department, which has no control over them. Yet blocking these services can have devastating consequences for your business.
Furthermore, you only reap the rewards of "the digital workplace" once both your internal business processes and work processes have been digitized. Your employees from all possible departments want to communicate and share ideas with each other and your customers via their channel of choice. That it will be digital is self-evident.
Yet according to annual surveys, companies often stick to their outdated IT environment, sometimes due to persistent prejudice about the safety of cloud applications or lacking the necessary manpower to accomplish a digital transformation without losing track of their business goals.
Of Belgian commercial and public companies, 53 percent currently use cloud applications, according to a study by ComputerProfile in 2016.
To ensure the future of your business, both your organization and IT department need to respond today to tomorrow's workplace, where structured and easy collaboration takes a primary role.