Embracing Tablets for Business

On 27 January 2010, Apple announced the iPad. The moment started a new revolution in mobile computing. Tablets have since become the computer of choice for many people, and the consumer-oriented devices have increasingly found their way into business life.

As the demand for tablet computing increased, many companies have since been attempting to take the share of the market by releasing various competing models, creating hundreds of products for the consumers to choose.

Tablets provide the ultimate in mobility, way more than traditional PCs and a step forward from laptops and notebooks. And at the same time, more power and beneficial than the average mobile smartphone capabilities. Tablets allow users to stay productive anywhere. Tablet computers are lightweight and portable, and their easy-to-use touch screens make them ideal for taking business on the road.

Today's tablets for business offer a variety of operating systems to choose from such as iOS, Android, and Windows that able to make users stay connected easily, making it an e-reader, check emails, browse the web, share files, give multimedia presentation, create and editing documents and more.

Tablets has been known to ease work by giving its mobile capability and providing sophisticated computing power in the hands of its owners. Tablets, whether they are powered by iOS, Android or Windows, all have apps available to download to enhance their tablet's ability. With the total of millions of apps in their dedicated market place, both free and paid, tablets are getting a fast start to give their customers almost anything they need: from pleasure and personal use, to business and enterprise. Tablets and smartphones has highlighted the time when mobile devices are starting to impact businesses.

Although tablets have been closing the gap between mobile capability with traditional computing, it is originally made, and is still seen to be suited for personal consumption of media than as devices for the enterprise. And as the eagerness of tablet makers to embrace the enterprise market, the rate of change in the tablet industry makes it hard to keep up with what the best tablet is for business use. For companies that want to use tablets as their enterprise device should understand the additional details in order for the tablet to comply with the day-to-day workflow, as well as the mobility solutions it offers to help companies take the advantage of the latest in enterprise mobile computing that keeps security top of mind.

As businesses are paying close attention to the tablet trend that sales are expected to skyrocket in the coming years, the increase of productivity and capability of tablets for enterprise use is predicted to have its own place in the market with its many advantages despite the popular traditional PCs are still having a large consumer base.