Legacy office applications like a calendar and information streams such as news and weather forecasts are likely to be universally used.

This is good news for CIOs because it indicates that there will be some standard application requirements throughout their organisation.

Mobile and flexible

As Aston Martin's Callow says, mobility is probably the key benefit that consumerisation brings and his main concern is to make it possible with respect to the sorts of enterprise applications that he has deployed.

Aston Martin has recently deployed a bundle of Microsoft applications based around the Office 365 platform.