7 Tips for Choosing a Tablet for Business

Corporate market, especially those engaged in the IT field, both globally has been growing rapidly. The growth of various brands and types of tablet computing devices, too influential in this regard.

In a corporate environment, the tablet has even been able to increase 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 IT manager if you want to implement a tablet computer in the company:

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. Supporting 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. Administration & Management Enterprise. 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. Interoperability Communications Video. 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. Strong computing capabilities. 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 in the Clouds. 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, whenever and wherever. This virtualized environment can be passed seamlessly to mobile devices, including tablet computers.
7. Open Source. Tablet computers to companies that use open platforms 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.