Your people have gone digital. How do you close the gap? A Digital Downgrade has emerged between people's experience of personal technology and the one they have at work. Consumers now drive the development and uptake of technology and if businesses don't take action, they will disengage their staff and surrender vital productivity. UNIT4 is committed to closing this gap and has the financial muscle, corporate will and technological ability to do so. Find out how this gap has emerged and what UNIT4 is doing to close it

1. UNIT4 vs. The Digital Downgrade
Your people have gone digital.
How do you close the gap?

2. 2
tech-savvy
employees
In order to keep up IT and ClOs need to be
aware what employees’ needs are and should
they prefer to have more flexible access, ensure
they can do so safely
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VP ENTERPRISE 
G R A H A M L O N G
BUSINESS TEAM,
SAMSUNG
The more
are overtaking employers when it comes to adoption.

3. 67% [eMarketer]
of UK citizens
own a smartphone
people use
social networks
[Facebook] 1.8bn
27% [Experian]
of internet time is spent
on social media
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2.4bn consumers used
cloud services
in 2013.
In 2018 that number will be
3.6bn
[Juniper]

5. Your people are fluent in
social, mobile
and cloud.
They expect connectivity, functionality and
the ability to collaborate 24/7.
Does your organisation speak
the same language?
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6. 21%
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of smartphone users use apps
[Xcubes]
but just
[Salesforce]
68%
of people use dedicated business apps

7. Younger employees are
willing to take as many
shortcuts as they can to use
the technologies they’ve
spent their
whole lives embracing
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R I C H A R D
FORTINET
H E N D E R S O N
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8. 8
of Generation Y employees have used 70%
personal cloud storage for
work purposes
[Fortinet]
12% to store work passwords
16% to store financial information
22% to store documents
(including business plans and contracts)
33% to store customer data
*Generation Y are the demographic cohort
following Generation X.
They have distinctly different behaviours, values
and attitudes from previous generations as a
response to the technological and economic
implications of the Internet.

9. Just 18%
of workers say their employer
uses cloud computing to
improve collaboration
[Harris Interactive]
make their job easier
and only 14% say their employer
uses cloud computing to
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As we move to this new
reality where employees want
to be always on and always
connected, how do companies
protect themselves while also
embracing these technologies?
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 MANAGING DIRECTOR, UNIT4
A N W E N R O B I N S O N
BUSINESS SOFTWARE

11. People-centric solutions with
Social, Mobile, Analytics
& Cloud
hardwired into their design are
one answer. They must offer:
Instant access in browsers
or apps on mobiles or tablets
Simple, up-to-date access to
organisational and customer data
Collaboration tools to source answers
and information from across business
Mobile access to reports and the
ability to input report data remotely
Tools to respond to a customer
/prospect demand instantly
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At UNIT4 we don’t accept the
digital downgrade that workers
experience when they swap their
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personal devices for their work ones.
When people are empowered they are
more engaged and when they are
engaged they are more productive
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MANAGING DIRECTOR, UNIT4
BUSINESS SOFTWARE
A N W E N R O B I N S O N
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13. To find out more about how UNIT4 can help you
deal with your digital downgrade visit
www.unit4.com.uk or email info.uk@unit4.com