How Internet Effects Productivity

Nowadays everything is related to speed and how fast anyone can accomplish anything. I know you might be thinking what’s the big thing about it. Well it’s Evolution. It is hard to believe that a mere decade ago, the majority of companies worldwide provided little or no Internet access to their employees. Indeed, the Internet itself was just emerging as a popular medium and few could have predicted that it would become so ubiquitous so quickly, both in personal and business affairs. Historically, enterprises have managed Internet access by means of proxy server software installed on general-purpose servers, and a large percentage of companies still do. This is unfortunate. Among other things, legacy proxy servers are not scalable, fast or reliable enough to cost effectively serve the massive increase in users, and the systems lack the functionality required to ensure that employees use the Internet in the most efficient way possible. Fortunately, scalable, multi-functioned Internet access technology has now matured and can dramatically enhance employee productivity, improve speed and reliability, cut administration and maintenance costs, and reduce the need for additional hardware and software.

Example Scenarios:

Modem Line:

1. A page can open at a moment.. Well it will be still slow and almost all newer web sites will be extremely sluggish with modem lines.
2. A person would be frustrated and lost his interest in finding information which he needs to find faster.
3. He wants to see a tutorial about something he wants to learn or share. In fact it’s not possible with modem connections.
4. Very hard to do remote support due to line breakdown and slow speed.

High Speed Internet:

1. Multiple access to multiple sites at one go
2. Breaks the boundary of adapting and enhancing oneself knowledge in a reduced time span.
3. Online media streaming on the fingertips.. news, tutorials, podcast and more stuff.
4. Technical remote support is faster and technical people solves problems faster remotely.
5. Voice over IP gives rest to the traditional PSTN lines and cuts down huge costs.
6. Corporate and Intranet portals, ERP, HelpDesk solutions makes life easier to manage.
7. Online identity, personalized web sites and portals brings the worlds audience to your doorstep.

So you know it’s all about Speed, Are you Fast Enough?