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LATEST INTELLIGENCE EMPOWER END-USERS WITH BETTER EXPERIENCES PRESENTED BY wWhy is end-user computing innovation important? Business landscapes have changed with the dawn of new technologies, and as a result, the end-user computing experience has changed as well. More is required today to allow employees in a variety of locations to access applications their work revolves around. Outstanding user experience: End-users need to get work done and the best way to do that is to provide the most optimal end-user experience with any device. Pervasive workforce mobility: Employees want to work from anywhere, anytime and from any device, even multiple devices. Cloud services and data: You’re moving everything to the cloud, from your corporate data to your applications and other enterprise services. Operational cost reductions: Your IT spend is being dramatically curtailed, forcing you to make more with existing investments and to upgrade only when significant OPEX and CAPEX reductions are guaranteed. How do you keep your focus on the end-user to ensure the best possible computing experience? First of all, you need to make sure you gather comprehensive user requirements. Analyse the tasks they’re doing, how they’re doing them, the overall workflow, and the applications involved. You should also storyboard proposed solutions and run them past the end-users, in order to solicit their impressions prior to any pilot programs and usability tests. It’s best to know that you’re veering off course early on, before you make further investments into possible solutions. Then, as you begin to ramp up end-user testing-and user testing is probably the most important part of it all-make sure that you structure the way that users carry out their tests and the way that you record the results. • Download whitepapers free from www.intelligentcio.com/me/whitepapers/ www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 23