Tablets are single-panel touchscreen computers that are smaller than laptops. They have apps and web browsers. Early tablets date back to 1979 but modern tablets grew popular around 2010. Tablet use in businesses is also increasing, with over 900 million projected to be in use by 2016. Businesses commonly use tablets for file sharing, collaboration, and communication via apps, document sharing, meetings, and social media. However, some disadvantages are that not all prefer tablets over PCs and security could be an issue.

1. Tablets
Mary Kennedy-Moore & Brandon Kolvek

2. Features
• Single panel personal computer
• Touch screen operated input device (Hand or stylus
pen)
• Web browser
• Apps
• Combines laptop with size and convenience of smart

3. Dimensions
•
• 10-inch Tablets: 9.8" x 7" x .5" @ 1.4 lbs.
Length, Height, Thickness Vary

4. History
1915- First patent for handwriting technology.
1956- First public use of tablet in place of a
keyboard.
1968- Alan Kay invents the Dynabook, “A
Personal Computer For Children Of All Ages.”

5. Early Modern Tablets
Apple's Graphics Tablet (1979)

6. Tablets Today

7. Industry Growth
• 3 out of 10 internet users own a tablet
• 820 million units sold in 2012, Projected 1.2 billion in
2013
• Surpass growth in notebook sales by 2016

8. Setbacks/Criticisms
• Transformation of Technological Use
• Ubiquitousness of tablets may make
Desktop PC's obsolete
• 62% of CEOs surveyed believe PC
will soon be redundant in office setting

9. Tablets in Business

10. How Common is Tablet Use in
Business?

11. Tablet Use Projection
By 2016, more than 900 million tablets will be in
the hands of users and as more consumers
buy them, they then tend to bring them to the
workplace and use them for their jobs – often
led by executives.
-Gartner

12. Replacement for Laptops?
-Travel
-'Ready at hand'

13. What Do Businesses Use
Tablets For?

14. 3 Main Uses
• File sharing
• Collaboration
• Communication

15. File Sharing
-File utilities for sharing and document
distribution

16. Collaboration
-Good for meetings and one-to-one
conversation
-Sales applications

17. Communication
-Social Media
-Corporate Email

18. Where Next?

19. Problems
-Some people would rather have a PC than a
tablet
-Some people believe PC will become
redundant in office setting
-Security

20. Questions
- Do you believe that companies will provide
tablets to their employees in the future?
-What do you think the disadvantages of
making tablets a standard in businesses are?
-Do you think that the ongoing success of
tablets will cannibalize other technologies,
such as PCs or smart phones?

21. Works Cited
• http://www.annpremazon.com/social-media-strategy-presentations/
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10290399-64.html
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/218301/can_you_swap_your_laptop_with_a
n_ipad.html?page=2
• http://www.informationweek.com/global-cio/interviews/tablets-in-business-
hard-lessons-from-ea/232600075?ct=1022&pgno=2
• http://www.informationweek.com/global-cio/interviews/tablets-in-business-
hard-lessons-from-ea/232600075?ct=1022&pgno=2