Macs make life easier at IBM

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It is possible that in IBM is not a very friendly place to use a Mac, But fletcherprevin, Vice President of IBM Workplace Service may disagree. Previn used to think as the vast majority do, that Apple Macs are more expensive than a PC, which are of no use to development aid for your operating system, and require a lot of staff training to adapt to Apple computers. Well turns out this is not what you think.

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Previn realized after meeting with Apple that Macs could be more supportive of IBM mobile devices, and make them compatible in the company. Using the Casper Suite, la which one simplifies the life of system administrators with a global platform to manage Mac OS X computers and iOS mobile devices. IBM now offers Macs to employees, who prefer this platform, and then allow those same employees to pair their own Apple device and then test applications, software and settings without any intervention by IT staff or helpdesk.

All the Macs we buy are saving IBM a lot of money, Fletcher Previn said.

As a result of this easy process, IBM is now in a position to deploy 1.900 Macs every week, for a total of 130.000 Macs and iOS devices across the IBM suite. Previn said that only 5 percent of Mac users call helpdesk, compared to 40 percent of PC users.

So while Macs tend to cost more up front on PC hardware, tend to last longer and require much less support from IBM's specialized help desk, resulting in big savings.


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