Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 03 | Page 32

FEATURE: 2016 INDUSTRY PREDICTIONS to use laptops with corporate apps has quickly spread to tablets, phones and in the future might include a lot more devices. The rise of Bring-your-own-“x” could mean that last letter will include apps and cloud resources that allow knowledge workers in particular to do more than the limits of corporate provided technology. We have already seen growing uses of ad-hoc file storage and file distribution through the rise of technologies like Dropbox and Wetransfer. In 2016, expect employees to want to bring data into other areas like surveying tools, analytics and knowledge-