ENTERPRISE & INNOVATION


FEATURE


Key benefits of a SAAS product include: Automatic updates – When a SAAS product is updated


with new features or fixes you will, as a user, automatically receive the latest version ensuring you are always up to date. Pay as you go – Many SAAS services are pay-as-you-go


without any long-term contracts tying you into using the product. Ease of use – SAAS products are generally browser-


based and as such offer a familiar interface for users, which makes learning to use the software easier and quicker leading to greater uptake across your workforce.


HARDWARE One of the most impactful areas of innovation that will directly affect your staff is that of hardware. The sheer power now available in portable devices such as laptops and tablets means that clunky desktop PCs are quickly becoming assigned to history. Docks allow for portable devices to be quickly hooked up to larger monitors where required and quickly unattached if the user is to be working remotely or ‘hot desking’.


HOT DESKING Thanks to changes in hardware, software and wireless connectivity, more businesses are employing the notion of hot desking, where staff can choose to work from wherever they want to upon turning up for the day. Businesses employing this approach tend also to ensure


that areas of the office environment are themed to foster specific activities. There may be breakout areas for design and collaboration or quieter more informative areas designated to allow for concentrated development. However this is implemented, the approach is proving popular with users feeling much less shackled to their desks. The above is by no means an exhaustive list but


represents some of the key advances in office innovation that will benefit those businesses and employees that are embracing them.


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