How can Microsoft help with the Consumerization of IT?

With Microsoft technologies, you can satisfy employee expectations to use consumer hardware and social computing applications—while boosting productivity with new ways of connecting and sharing and increasing competitiveness as an innovative company and workplace.

With an optimized desktop infrastructure that supports user-selected hardware and enterprise-grade social computing tools, you can deliver IT flexibility while managing security.

What are the 3 ways Microsoft can help us capitalize on the Consumerization Trend?

1) Boosting productivity with new ways of connecting and sharing
2) Staying competitive as an innovative company and workplace
3) Delivering IT flexibility while managing security

Tell me more about boosting productivity with new ways of connecting and sharing?

Remove barriers to productive remote working by supporting access to enterprise applications and data from consumer devices

Make it easier to find expertise and find and share information with People search, information feeds, personal sites, blogs, wikis

Build collaborative communities with Wikis, team sites, IM, and VoIP

Deliver training with more impact and lower costs with podcasts

Tell me more about staying competitive as an innovative company and workplace?

Attract and retain the top talent with centralized desktops and an enterprise social computing platform

Find innovative ways to enhance customer experiences through feeds, blogs, and discussion forums

Foster the development of innovative ideas with discussion forums, and mashups

Tell me more about delivering IT flexibility while managing security?

Support user-selected hardware without compromising enterprise security through folder redirection and offline files; presentation, application, and desktop virtualization; portable drive encryption

Satisfy user demands for social computing experiences without sacrificing control or overly burdening IT with an integrated platform and enterprise-ready management