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There's a sentiment that often comes up when discussing BYOD, the changing workplace, and the consumerization trend as a whole. It's the idea that consumer-oriented cloud services and mobile apps are delivering a much better user experience than an IT staff, business software, and enterprise developers can provide. That's led companies like Enterproid and Apperian to focus on the end-user experience as well as the IT and management experience of their mobile management products.  Both companies see the end user experience as a powerful competitive advantage.

BYOD isn't just for business. That's the lesson learned by a school district in Ohio and Northern Kentucky when it used a BYOD plan to help transform the education of its students.

Bring your own device is so 2012. The next big push in the consumerization of IT is bring your own cloud. And just as when consumer devices poured into the enterprise, many IT organizations have already responded with a list of do's and don'ts.

Skyhigh monitors what cloud services employees are using and said that most businesses are surprised at what it finds.

A study by Cisco Systems' Internet Business Solutions Group concludes that the value companies currently derive from BYOD is "dwarfed by the gains that would be possible if they were to implement BYOD more strategically."

Google's new Android development environment pairs rich layout and build capabilities with IntelliJ IDEA's famous ease