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SAP CIO: How We Do BYOD


BYTE's Boonsri Dickinson spoke to Oliver Bussmann, Global CIO and corporate officer at SAP, about BYOD and consumerization of IT. Bussmann talked about how the tablet environment has changed since he first deployed iPads. He also talked about how important it is to be social to build a community online.


By Boonsri Dickinson
InformationWeek
January 10, 2013 15:41 PM

What is the future of BYOD? BYTE's Boonsri Dickinson interviewed Oliver Bussmann, CIO at SAP, regarding the future of tablets and smartphones in the workplace. At CES, Bussmann spoke about the future of BYOD and why he loves using Twitter to generate a community. He also talked about how they modeled their IT repair department after Apple's Genius Bar. Watch the interview here:


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