Many are calling the advent of apps a revolution, as important as the arrival of the personal computer. How ironic that we have started to call such app-running devices as smartphones and tablets, the post-PC devices. Given today's heightened awareness and revolutionary swing of this topic, of course the CBR crew had to focus on it. In this issue, we are benchmarking the use of apps to understand the transition from the PC to the post-PC era.

• Read the introduction

In This Issue

• Introduction
• The Rise and Rise of the Smartphone App: How Is IT Doing?
• Driving the Mobile Data Experience: Meet Customers Where They Are
• Saying Farewell to So Many Friends? There Is No App for That!
• Smartphone Apps Survey Data

This issue is the seventh annual CBR issue on IT trends. We have the opportunity here not only to "take the pulse" of the IT industry on various topics -- adoption levels, HR activities, IT management strategies, and more -- but also to compare this year's snapshot with the past six years, giving us insight into the ever-changing landscape of business technology.

• Read Cutter Senior Consultants' predictions for 2012 and beyond