Business Analysis Consumerization Type Technologies (...

As the phenomenon of consumerization continues to become more pervasive across enterprises, CIOs must think differently about the technologies they use and how those technologies enhance the end-user experience, while also balancing the supportability and security of the IT environment. Technologies must not hinder employee productivity, and yet must protect enterprise data and the firm’s intellectual property. Consumerization has also forced CIOs to make significant changes in policies, security, and infrastructure. Additionally, CIOs must consider the end-user’s use of the technology, and consider their need to access data and applications while in the field. With this in mind, CIOs are turning to cloud and virtualization technologies to provide the ultimate in flexibility and choice, while maintaining security. Infrastructure decisions related to consumerization are becoming increasingly difficult as there are few vendors that provide a complete stack of service s that are integrated across the CIO’s need for security, support, functionality, and management of the environment. What makes this even more difficult is the fact that there is very little standardization across consumerization-type technologies (Harteveld, 2012). This leads to a varied â€Å"stack† of technologies that CIOs must knit together seamlessly to provide a functional and secure user experience that does not hinder the users’ productivity. From an architectural perspective, in order to support