E2 Poll Wrap-Up: CES 2013

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What we discovered was that the E2 community does care about CES, and that you trust E2 to bring you the news on enterprise-class products that were there. Fifty percent of the people who responded to our poll said that the proliferation of consumer products in the enterprise work space makes CES more important to them, and that they trusted E2 to bring them the critical information they needed from the show. Roughly another fifth of the people responding said that their company was sending at least one employee to the show. Taken together, that's more than two-thirds of the E2 audience that was planning to do something active to follow the news from CES.

As a matter of fact, only about ten percent of our survey response indicated that people were thinking of CES as a show that's just about toys and TVs -- about things that stay safely at home and never come to the office.

What we saw at CES, and the E2 community recognizes, is that the line between consumer technology and enterprise technology is fading fast. Today, the question isn't whether a given product is consumer or business tech, but whether it will do a given job. It's a radical change -- but one that's bringing more productivity and creativity into the enterprise.

Does the proliferation of consumer products in the enterprise make CES more important to you?

If you did follow E2's coverage of CES, what products most impressed you? If your company sent someone, what did he or she see that we didn't? And what's the consumer technology that you most want to see brought into the enterprise? Let us know -- and stay tuned for more E2 polls!