Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Not surprisingly, 90 percent of respondents said integration and management parity between Macs and PCs were major issues for their organisations, and 86 percent saw room for improvement in these areas.
Such issues are often cited as one of the main factors holding back the greater use of Macs in large scale organisations.
Specific issues frequently raised were Active Directory integration (58 percent), client management (53 percent), file sharing (42 percent) and configuration consistency (38 percent).
"The survey corroborates our finding that organizations are integrating the Mac and are seeking those solutions that allow the Mac to be managed the way PCs are managed," said Jim Chappell, vice president of business development for EDA member Centrify, a provider of identity and access management software.
Other members of the EDA are Atempo (data protection), GroupLogic (file and print services), LANrev (systems lifecycle management), and Parallels (virtualisation).
"Each of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance solutions help companies increase IT acceptance of Macs in the enterprise by integrating Macs into their Windows managed environment and reducing the total cost of ownership," added Chappell.
Only two percent of respondents said they plan to reduce the number of Macs in their organisations.
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