December - 2013 - issue > View Point
Revolution: The CONSUMERIZATION
Somesh Singh
Vice President, Product Management & Engineering-NetIQ
security management, and performance management software for the modern enterprise. The
company was acquired by The Attachmate Group, Inc.a $ 1.2 billion company.
A quiet revolution is taking place in the world of business information technology. And like many revolutions through history, it began in the street, apparently spontaneously and was largely dismissed before it became too large to ignore.The revolution is "consumerization" and it is turning business IT on its collective head, changing both the type of technology that is used for business computing,and the way in which users think about information. Moreover, it is redefining the role of the CIO and IT department in light of business requirements and how enterprise software is built.
Consumerization is simply the adoption of "consumer" technologies within business IT. Rather than IT departments run as command and
control organizations that set policies
and define strategy for company issued devices and applications,users are increasingly bringing their own devices – smartphones, personal tablets and laptops – into the office to use for business. With them users are
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