Matching The Worker To The PC

Sponsored Feature It's so easy to think that one size fits all when it comes to personal computers, but such a critical aid to business productivity demands a far more complex strategy than that.

Different types of worker use a diverse range of applications and workloads, and often have very different requirements around PC performance, security and reliability which are rarely, perhaps if ever, satisfied by a vanilla desktop and laptop procurement and provisioning strategy.

The new era of mass remote working precipitated by the pandemic has done to much to change the dynamic. With so many staff now commercially engaged at home and other locations outside the traditional boundaries of the central office, the type of device best suited to their needs has changed too. Nor is it just about the hardware – many applications are now hosted on the cloud rather than a local hard disk, and some of them require powerful CPU, memory, network and storage resources to transmit and crunch large volumes of data.

And just having so many employees distributed over so many different locations has elevated the importance of running sophisticated communications and collaboration tools which keep us all informed and connected.

Recent Intel research found that enterprise users generally fall into two camps: knowledge workers which primarily rely on light office productivity tools like Google Workspace, Microsoft 0365, Zoom and Teams to do their jobs; and those which use a mix of desktop and cloud-based applications that have very specific performance requirements.

Here at The Register, we're interested to find out what the employee profile demographic looks like within your organization, how that impacts the way that it procures, provisions and uses IT, and what impact it might have on its business operations.

What portion of its staff fall into the category of data analyst/scientist for example – those that use big data analysis, modelling, data visualization, advanced formulas/macros or predictive models using machine learning and AI to pull valuable insight from the information they interrogate?

Equally they could be software developers that utilize a wide variety of programming languages and tools such as Visual Studio to create applications for your organizations customers or end users. Or content creators that regularly handle and manipulate hefty video and photo files in Adobe Premiere Pro or Photoshop for example.

Our curiosity isn't just linked to the applications and workloads in use either. We also want to know what sort of job profiles your organization prioritizes when it comes to speccing out the desktops and laptops they want to bring in to boost productivity – whether that be those working in accountancy or finance department, customer service, or engineering for example.

If you can take just a few minutes to answer a couple of quick questions to give us a clue, we'll tell you what everyone thought in a couple of weeks when the survey closes.

Knowledge is power after all, and if you have a better idea of specific business user technology requirements, it could provide a timely boost to choosing the right upgrade.

Thanks!

Sponsored by Intel.