March 25, 2014 – Parallels®, a global leader in cross-platform solutions, today announced results of its commissioned survey of more than 200 IT decision makers about their attitudes toward Macs in the enterprise. The results are telling – almost half of businesses (45 percent) currently offer their employees Macs, and more than nine out of 10 businesses (95 percent) that don’t currently provide Macs would be more likely to offer employees Macs if they had a single central management system for both Windows PCs and Macs.
Macs are in high demand – and respondents who already support Macs shared the top reasons why:
- Eight out of 10 businesses (77 percent) say Macs are more reliable overall than Windows machines
- Seven out of 10 (65 percent) say they are easier to support
- Seven out of 10 (65 percent) say offering Macs would likely help attract employees (a very important factor given the competition for talent)
However, there are also barriers against bringing Macs onto corporate networks according to survey respondents:
- Seven out of 10 businesses (70 percent) cite the main reason they don’t allow Macs onto their network is because they lack the expertise to manage them
- Seven out of 10 (68 percent) don’t allow them because they are unable to run Windows apps (and the vast majority of enterprise do have some Windows-only applications)
- Half (53 percent) cite the lack of proper management tools
“This survey reinforces what we already knew: Macs are coming into the enterprise but often are supported only reluctantly and not managed efficiently,” said Parallels President Jack Zubarev. “With Parallels Desktop for Mac Enterprise Edition and our Mac management plug-in for Microsoft SCCM, Parallels removes two of the biggest roadblocks to Macs in the enterprise: the ability to run Windows applications on the Mac and giving IT departments a single pane of glass to manage Macs and PCs.”
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