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74% of Enterprises with Macs Plan to Add More According to Enterprise Desktop Alliance Survey - Respondents Say Integration and Management Parity with Windows is Important
2009-03-10
Sunnyvale, CA, March 10, 2009 — In a survey conducted by the Enterprise
Desktop Alliance, 235 of the 314 respondents expect to increase the number of
Macs within their organization. Less than 2% of the responding organizations
said they expected to reduce the number of Macs. The survey also shows that
productivity gains and employee preference are the primary drivers of
enterprises adopting Macs, with lower cost of ownership also playing an
important role. The respondents were IT administrators, nearly 60% of whom
manage 100 or more Macs within a wide range of enterprise class organizations.
Significantly, 91% of the IT administrators indicated that integration and
management parity between Macs and PCs were major issues of importance to their
organization. It is clear that organizations want to be able to manage all
systems and platforms in one consistent manner.
"The importance of integration and management parity with PCs is an indication
that the Mac users realize that getting Macs is easier to do if they can be
managed," said Laura DiDio, principal analyst at Information Technology
Intelligence Corp. "The broad trends of Macs continuing their penetration are
reinforced by the results of this survey."
When queried more deeply about issues related to managing Macs, the IT
administrators identified the following as major issues/concerns. The
percentages reflect the number of respondents who selected an item. Most
identified more than one issue:
- Integration with Active Directory (58%)
- Client management (inventory, patches, compliance) (53%)
- File sharing (42%)
- Configuration consistency (38%)
- Application compatibility (27%)
- Non-standard management utilities (26%)
- Security (19%)
- Data recovery (12%)
"The survey corroborates our finding that organizations are integrating the Mac
and are seeking those solutions that allow the Mac to be managed the way PCs are
managed," said Jim Chappell, vice president of business development for Centrify.
"Each of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance solutions help companies increase IT
acceptance of Macs in the enterprise by integrating Macs into their Windows
managed environment and reducing the total cost of ownership."
Conducted during November and December of 2008, the survey had three primary
objectives: to measure organizational commitment to the Mac within large
organizations, to assess the importance of Windows-Mac integration, and to
identify key IT management and administrative priorities related to the
integration of the Mac. Details regarding the survey questions and responses can
be found in a survey report published at the EDA website
http://enterprisedesktopalliance.com/survey_results.html
The survey was conducted by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance, a collaboration
among enterprise-class software developers to make it easy to deploy, integrate
and manage Macs in a sophisticated, Windows-managed IT environment.
About the Enterprise Desktop Alliance
Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA) solutions are specifically designed to
maintain the Mac experience for users even as they interface with the Windows
infrastructure. At the same time, by extending the standard Windows-based
management environment, EDA solutions enable the Mac to be viewed and to act as
a peer to Windows in an enterprise.
Using the solutions from EDA companies, IT administrators can deliver the same
standards of service, maintain uniform client configuration, enforce the same
security controls, make the same sharepoints and print queues available, deliver
the same disaster recovery, and enforce the same compliance policies for both
Mac and Windows systems. And those same capabilities can be applied to the
virtual version of Windows that runs on the Mac.
The cross-platform solutions available from the Alliance members address
Enterprise Data Protection — Atempo; Identity & Access Management — Centrify;
File Sharing & Print Services — Group Logic; Systems Lifecycle Management —
LANrev; and Virtualization — Parallels. For more information, visit
www.enterprisedesktopalliance.com.
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