There's no question iPads are riding on the coattails of another major IT trend called bring-your-own-device, or BYOD. Simply put, consumers want to use personal devices for work. A recent survey of more than 335 IT professionals, sponsored by enterprise software vendor MokaFive, found that 88 percent of companies had some form of BYOD, whether sanctioned or not.

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As the iPad rises in the enterprise, will the same be true for an iPad mini? Rumors of a smaller iPad-or a -coming out in the fall has led industry watchers to predict how the product will fare in the enterprise.

Disagreement abounds about an iPad mini's chances as a corporate computing tool.

Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi believes a small tablet probably won't have much of an impact on the enterprise. Milanesi covers the tablet market at Gartner and is very familiar with small tablets such as the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7, which she says are too small to get much work done.