苹果将很快扩大其企业发展蓝图感谢应导致一套新的特定行业的iOS应用程序的发布，一个合作伙伴关系。该deal with Deloitteis designed to increase the value and appeal of Apple devices in the workplace with new specialized applications, network integrations and mobile-first processes for businesses.
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Deloitte plans to create a consultancy practice with a dedicated team of more than 5,000 strategic advisors, including iOS architects, developers and designers, to help businesses improve operations in retail, field services, recruiting, research and development, supply chain management and back-office systems.
Mike Brinker, digital lead at Global Deloitte, says the firm will take a federated approach to iOS by training and hiring experts embedded in each of its practices across all the countries, industries and business functions the company serves. "We believe this is an area for us that touches everything," he says. "It will touch all of our practices, from strategy through implementation."
德勤咨询公司的iOS，“EnterpriseNext”服务
As part of the agreement, Deloitte Consulting and Apple say they will also offer a new service called"EnterpriseNext,"旨在帮助客户确定需要改进的潜在领域，并制定通过快速的原型新的iOS应用程序和业务流程。“我们希望能有我们可以在自己的数字化改造的影响最大，”珍妮特Foutty，董事长兼首席执行官，德勤咨询公司说。“我们将继续得到真正的激励来自个人到企业和爱心苹果的重点在这个空间中的移动。”
苹果's deal with Deloitte will help businesses and their employees get the most out of their current iOS devices, according to Jan Dawson, chief analyst and founder ofJackdaw Research. The level of support and guidance Deloitte promised isn't something Apple can do on its own, Dawsonwrote in a research note. "Whereas Apple can sell and support iOS devices itself for generic uses, Deloitte can provide much deeper expertise around horizontal business functions and for specific vertical industries than Apple ever could."
CIOs know employees are going to find ways to use iOS devices for work purposes, according to Brinker. "We're helping our clients' employees work the way they live," he says. "It's better to get out ahead of that and manage it, and really embrace it, and fully exploit the power of it, rather than let it leak in through the edges of the organization."
Businesses also need to be more agile when they embrace digital transformation, Brinker says. "Faster pilots and smaller rollouts are really critical in the way they deploy, as opposed to the old days of doing big, monolithic waterfall type projects," he says.
Deloitte a new piece in Apple's enterprise puzzle
Following Apple'smonumental agreement with IBM在2014年，iPhone制造商随后作出的deals with Cisco和SAP扩大企业的路线图。德勤是全球最大的SAP实施者之一，它与思科长期的合作关系，根据布林克。德勤公司的iOS实践和EnterpriseNext服务将补充苹果与思科和SAP的合作伙伴关系，他说。
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Though IBM's business overlaps more directly with some of Deloitte's interests, Brinker says the two competing firms' deals with Apple are distinct. IBM develops enterprise iOS apps as products, for example, resells Apple hardware and offers AppleCare directly to its customers. Deloitte doesn't plan to resell any products or AppleCare support, and most of its app development will be customized based on each client's needs, according to Brinker. Deloitte's clients will "require apps that are custom integrated into their backends and … more complex than you can get off the shelf," Brinker says.
苹果has been meticulous in its approach to the business world, according to CEO Foutty, and Deloitte is confident it fits well into Apple's vision for iOS in enterprise. "What I like about how Apple's thought about their partnerships and alliances is that they have been very distinct in thinking about each of the pieces," Foutty says. "We were very explicit in that conversation with them and feel really good about how they thought about the enterprise market for each of those dimensions."
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