Give and go: New Orleans Hornets and Array Networks

Employees “love it”

The solution has been made available to essentially the entire staff. “So far, they love it because it allows them to get out of the office and because they can finally use their iPads for business,” says Caflisch. Because employees work between 40 to 60 hours a week and sometimes more, and because they often work nights and weekends due to games, they need a solution that is highly portable and can be used anywhere at any time,” he says. “The DesktopDirect solution has met and exceeded this requirement and has had a hugely positive influence on our employees and their ability to conduct business.”

An interesting use case that is developing, he adds, is the control over playbooks assigned to players and coaching staff. In place of physical documents, which are prone to being lost, stolen or misappropriated, the team can now store this information on its network and extend the information to players over a mobile device. “In this manner, the sensitive information is available to users where and when it is needed, but never leaves the corporate network,” says Caflisch. “It doesn't matter what happens to the device, and the data cannot be copied and pasted.”

And, as far as keeping current with an always evolving software environment, updates to the DesktopDirect mobile application for iOS and Android are pushed automatically to the Apple's App Store and Google Play. Updates for the DesktopDirect appliance are sent to customers directly, says Array's Rappaport.